Konami reveals that Silent Hill is making a comeback, more information coming on Wednesday

The last few years have been torture for anyone. Silent Hill fan. We’ve experienced rumor after rumour, leak after leak, and we still haven’t heard a whisper from Konami. It got to the point where many fans were desperately waiting for a new installment in the seminal horror series, but many accepted that it may never happen. Instead, we’ve been left trying, and struggling, to reproduce some of the best horror games of all time ever since.

It’s been a full decade since the last full Silent Hill game, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, and seven years since we were all euphoric about PT, before being scorned by Silent Hills being cancelled. Needless to say, the journey of being a Silent Hill fan is quite a difficult one.

Well, Konami is full of surprises, it seems. Last night, the official Silent Hill Twitter account shared, “In your restless dreams, do you see that town? The latest updates to the SILENT HILL series will be revealed during the #SILENTHILL broadcast on Wednesday, October 19, at 2:00 p.m. PDT.” Yes Konami. I have had restless dreams about that town since I was a child; Why do you think most of us can’t wait to go back?

For reference, that’s 2pm PDT / 10pm BST / 5pm ET / 4pm CT this Wednesday, October 19.

The announcement was later retweeted by Masahiro Ito, who has frequently been an art director and monster designer on the Silent Hill series. In particular, he created Pyramid Head; who later said that he hated creating him. Ito did not give a reason as to why, but many fans concluded that it was due to the fact that enemies like Pyramid Head were meant to be exclusive to the game they are found in. And, well, it ended up in a bunch of other Silent Hill titles too. He has also been quite vocal about how tired he is of handling fan misconceptions about the game.

This is not a confirmation of whether Ito is involved; he is simply supporting the series that he helped create. That said, if Ito is involved, it’s safe to say that any new (or old) enemies we meet will be in top form.

Please note that recently Silent Hill: The Short Message was rated on a Korean game rating table. This very well could be part of what we see during Wednesday’s broadcast.

However, this not all. We have also been aware of many rumors about a Silent Hill 2 remake. Last week, Christophe Gans (film director of Silent Hill, 2006), shared in an interview that “I am working with Silent Team, the original creators of Konami, there are several games in development as we speak.”

And let’s not forget about those leaked screenshots of Bloober Team’s internal pitch for a new version of Silent Hill 2, too. If all these rumors point to anything, it’s that we could very well see James Sunderland again soon.