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Konami Wants Your ‘Silent Hills’ Demo Reaction Videos
Ahead of whatever it is they have planned for us at Tokyo Game Show later this month, Konami is offering an incentive for fans to play the Gamescom sensation that was the P.T. “interactive teaser” — the mysterious demo that ended up being a creative reveal of Silent Hills, coming in 2016 from Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro.
The publisher is offering those who are willing — i.e. anyone who posses a camera, a PlayStation 4 and some free time — a chance to appear on-stage during the presentation.
All you need to do is record yourself playing it and send your video to them. I’m assuming they’ll then choose some unlucky intern to sift through all the entries, picking the best reactions to present alongside the game’s showing at TGS.
This means your terrified face could be the last thing we see before they give us a new trailer. It could also be the first thing we see after they talk about it for awhile and give us nothing, but I much prefer the first scenario.
TGS 2014 runs through Sept 18-21. Head here for the full list of rules.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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