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More ‘Silent Hill’ Speculation Comes After Bloober Team CEO Hints at Big Future Project
The cycle of Silent Hill speculation has spun once more and landed us on yet another hint at the next game in the iconic psychological horror series. Or possibly even the next two games.
During an interview with GI.biz the CEO of Bloober Team (no strangers to psychological horror games with Layers of Fear, Observer, and this year’s The Medium) dropped a meaty bombshell that the Polish developer had been working on a horror game for a big name publisher for the past year.
“In fact, we’ve been working for more than a year on another gaming project, another horror IP, and we’re doing this with a very famous gaming publisher. I can’t tell you who. I can’t tell you what the project is, but I’m pretty sure when people realize we’re working on it, they will be very excited.”
Given the constant hope that a Silent Hill game announcement is coming, it’s considered a possibility that Bloober is working on the Konami property. Bloober already worked with Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka on The Medium, and is working together again for its next project.
It’s been reported several times before that Konami has been shopping the franchise around to developers over the past few years, with the likes of Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games among those turning it down.
On the other side of this is VGC reporting that Konami has actually already outsourced the IP to a prominent Japanese developer with a reveal due in a matter of months. Of course, both of these could be the truth, as it’s previously been reported that two Silent Hill projects are on the go.
Interestingly, Kojima Productions is supposedly not the Japanese developer, despite constant mutterings of a miraculous reunion between Konami and some of their former employees.
Hopefully, we’ll actually see a Silent Hill game revealed this year after several false starts. If Bloober Team is involved, then its recent horror game The Medium certainly works as a dry run for the job.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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