The Medium creator partners with Konami, may be working on Silent Hill
The Medium developer Bloober Team is partnering with Konami. This allows the studio to make games based on ‘existing and new franchises’ from Konami. According to anonymous sources, a project would be based on Silent Hill.
In a statement, the two companies said they have signed a “strategic cooperation agreement”. With the collaboration, the two companies will exchange knowledge and jointly develop games. The companies will not disclose further details of the partnership. Konami reports that the two companies will “share more information once details of the partnership are decided.”
However, Video Games Chronicle writes that one of the projects would be related to Silent Hill. The website relies on anonymous sources familiar with the plans of the two companies. VGC publishes information about unannounced games more often and predicted, among other things, the arrival of the Mario 3D All Stars collection for the Nintendo Switch.
The rumor that Bloober Team is working on a Silent Hill game is not entirely unexpected. The studio mainly develops horror games and hinted in February that it is working on a major horror franchise from another company. “We’ve been working on another horror franchise for over a year and we’re doing this for a very well-known publisher,” Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno told Gamesindustry.biz.
There have been rumors about the arrival of a new Silent Hill game for some time now. Silent Hill composer Yakira Yamaoka said in February that he was working on music for an unannounced project to be unveiled this summer, Eurogamer also reports. “I think it’s the one you hope to hear from,” the composer said in an interview. That video was later taken offline after the uploader had received a request to do so.
The most recent game in the horror franchise, Silent Hill Downpour, was released in 2012. Konami has since worked on a Silent Hill game with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo del Toro, but that project was scrapped in 2015 after the relationship between Kojima and Konami deteriorated. After that, Konami would have considered various options for a reboot of the Silent Hill franchise. The publisher would have approached Dark Pictures developer Supermassive, among others, but this project would not have got off the ground, Eurogamer writes.
Bloober Team released its most recent horror game, The Medium, early this year