Konami has launched an official Silent Hill Twitter account, amid reports it could be preparing to announce a new game in the horror series.
On Friday the publisher’s social media team apologised for ‘firing up’ fans with aSilent Hill-related tweet and pointed tothe newly-created official Twitter accountfor any potential future announcements.
@SilentHill was created in July 2020 and so far the account has been sharing fan art and promotingthe Silent Hill crossoverwithBehaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight.
According to anoted insider, a new Silent Hill game is “100%” in development and likely to be announced this year.
AKonamirepresentative previously labelled seperate claims thatit was planning to reboot the Silent Hill franchise in partnership with PlayStationas untrue.
We are sorry we got people fired up. Anything official would come from first from@SilentHillor an event or something, not from us. We were just being fans and enjoyed the noise/memories. Sorry everyone, did mean to kill your Friday mood.
A report published in Marchclaimed that Silent Hill’s original development leads were helming a new instalment backed bySony Interactive Entertainment.
Masahiro Ito (art director for the series’ first three games),Keiichiro Toyama(director and writer of the original 1999 Silent Hill) andAkira Yamaoka(series composer) were all said to be working on the new project.
It was described as a “soft reboot” of the series developed in collaboration with SonyJapan Studio, the first-party developer which previously helped co-create Bloodborne and The Last Guardian.
