Nintendo’s Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake has been rated in Brazil and Korea.
07.10.2023 - 14:49 / eurogamer.net / James Sunderland / Hill
As we creak ever closer to spooky season and a possible second Silent Hill Transmission – the last was just before Halloween 2022 – it seems Bloober Team has quietly been updating the backend of Silent Hill 2 Remake's Steam page.
In fairness, the store description and its accompanying tags have been tweaked routinely throughout the year, but according to Steam DB, there's been a flurry of activity through September and now October, including confirmation of language subtitles (Brazillian, Portuguese, and Ukrainian), tags, and Steam achievements, hinting that the in-game achievements have been finalised and signed off. The store assets and images have also been refreshed, too.
Concrete proof that an update or release is imminent? Hardly. But it's one of the strongest signals yet that development has entered the final straight, and the «coming soon» on the game's Steam page is accurate. Here's hoping we'll get a long-overdue update from Konami in the next week or so.
After what felt like an eternity of leaks, Konami officially revived its long-dormant Silent Hill series last year, starting with remake of horror masterpiece Silent Hill 2, which is being developed by Bloober Team for PC and PS5 as a timed console exclusive.
Silent Hill 2 Remake will be Bloober Team's contemporary take on Konami's seminal second Silent Hill instalment, which was first released back in 2001, and follows James Sunderland and his town-wide search for his wife three years after she died.
Information about Steam achievements, Brazilian and Ukrainian subtitles has been added to the Silent Hill 2 Remake Steam page pic.twitter.com/fA0gvEIUny
Bloober Team — the studio behind the likes of The Medium, Layers of Fear, and Observer — had been rumoured to be involved in a Silent Hill revival as far back as June 2021, when it announced a partnership with Konami to create a new game. Rumours that the project would be a Silent Hill 2 remake began to coalesce following a series of leaks in 2022.
ICYMI, the first of Konami's comeback titles for the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill: Ascension.
Silent Hill: Ascension is an interactive streaming game where players will be able to affect the outcome of the story by voting on what happens next.
Although Konami and Genvid have mostly kept details on Ascension hush until now, pre-registrations on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for the game are live and suggest it'll begin on 31st October.
Nintendo’s Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake has been rated in Brazil and Korea.
Six new character posters for have been revealed ahead of the release of the first interactive series in the franchise. The new product works around Konami’s classic survival horror series but has a completely different approach when compared to previous titles. This will not be a game in the original sense, but a collaborative interactive streaming experience shared by players worldwide. To some extent, there are similarities between and Netflix’s, but there are also important differences.
Remedy Entertainment is set to deliver its first full-fledged survival horror title when Alan Wake 2 launches later this month, and there’s no shortage of excitement around the brand of horror that the acclaimed studio will deliver. Remedy has previously said that its primary focus has been on building atmosphere and slow-paced dread rather than peppering the experience with jump scares, and in a recent interview with GamingBolt, game director Kyle Rowley touched on that once more.
Fans of the Silent Hill franchise have waited for what felt like an eternity for Konami to recognize their survival horror franchise. Since Hideo Kojima split from the company and Silent Hills was killed off, we were left with nothing more than hope for the franchise’s return. After years of events that came and went without a mention of the IP, things finally turned around last year. Konami released a video highlighting that Silent Hill was coming back, and several projects were coming out based around the IP. Included in that batch of titles was a remake of Silent Hill 2.
Silent Hill Ascension will premiere on Halloween, aka October 31st, at 9pm ET/6pm PT, Konami has confirmed. For UK folks, that is 1am GMT on November 1st. The first episode of the live series, where the audience determine the story and the canon of the Silent Hill franchise, will mark the beginning of a six month journey with a new episode dropping every day.
It’s been more than a hot minute since we’ve had a Silent Hill game. Last year’s announcement that the series was making a return caused joy (and a bit of relief) in many fans’ hearts. As well as brand-new interactive series, we’re also getting a remake of Silent Hill 2, and some updates on Steam suggest we may hear more about this project soon.
Konami unveiled last year that Silent Hill was going to make a return in a massive way. After years of dormancy, fans had waited for any new signs of life when it came to the beloved survival horror franchise. So it was quite a surprise that when Konami did reveal the return for the IP, several projects were in the works. One of the biggest titles from the batch of new reveals is a remake of arguably the best installment of the entire franchise, Silent Hill 2. However, details about the game have still been tightly sealed shut behind Konami and the developers handling the project, Bloober Team.
“Where the hell is the Silent Hill 2 remake?” is a question many of us have asked in recent months, with updates on the survival horror title having dried up entirely since its announcement a year ago. It seems, however, that Konami and developer Bloober Team may be planning another look at the game in the near future.
It’s unclear how long it will be until gets an official launch date, but there are plenty of fantastic horror games to play during the wait. The survival horror genre has been experiencing something of a renaissance in recent years, much like the initial surge the genre had when the series was just getting started. This rebirth is set to continue with the remake, among other upcoming titles that fans will likely also want to get their hands on, but there is a lot to play that’s already on many of the digital marketplaces.
We could be hearing more about the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake from Konami anytime now, as a new Steam backend update is one of many puzzle pieces that may just complete a picture that gives us more details about the remake of one of the horror genre’s best games.
Silent Hill 2's remake has been receiving consistent updates on Steam over the last few weeks, which hints that it won't be long until we get some news on the game.
Silent Hill Ascension will premiere on Halloween, aka October 31st, at 9pm ET/6pm PT, Konami has confirmed. For UK folks, that is 1am GMT on November 1st. The first episode of the live series, where the audience determine the story and the canon of the Silent Hill franchise, will mark the beginning of a six month journey with a new episode dropping every day.