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.