Bloober Team denies recent rumors about a new Silent Hill game

Round every week in the past, Konami confirmed that the corporate and Bloober Group would begin working collectively to create choose video games going ahead. Given Bloober Group’s historical past with growing psychological horror video games, followers of Konami’s Silent Hill collection quickly started speculating that the 2 corporations deliberate to work on a brand new entry within the acclaimed franchise. Bloober Group quickly dashed these hopes, nevertheless, as studio CMO Tomasz Gawlikowski denied that their at the moment deliberate initiatives had something to do with a brand new Silent Hill recreation. This information comes courtesy of IGN, who lately spoke with Gawlikowski on the matter.

Rumors a couple of potential Silent Hill recreation started circulating when followers found that the studio utilized for EU funding for 3 Bloober Group initiatives. In response to the EU’s Artistic Europe web site, one in all these initiatives goes by the codename of “H2O,” which refers to Layers of Concern 2, whereas the opposite two initiatives have the codenames “Black” and “Dum Spiro.” “Black” refers to a first-person recreation that incorporates a world set within the Center Ages and an alien menace, whereas “Dum Spiro” takes place in a ghetto throughout World Battle II. The descriptions for the latter two initiatives don’t point out Silent Hill, however followers nonetheless noticed them as potential concepts for a Silent Hill recreation.

What did Gawlikowski say about it?

Gawlikowski clarified to IGN that Bloober Group isn’t actively growing “Black” or “Dum Spiro,” and that neither challenge pertains to “themes or premises which were circulating on-line within the final days.” He went on to elucidate that the concept for “Dum Spiro” is not going to come to fruition within the foreseeable future on account of considerations about its “[sensitivity] to the subject” and that “Black” was a really completely different challenge than what the Artistic Europe web site described. Whereas this doesn’t essentially imply that Bloober Group doesn’t plan on engaged on a Silent Hill recreation, it does imply that followers have to attend fairly a bit longer earlier than any concrete indicators of a brand new entry come to mild. Even then, given the controversies surrounding later entries within the collection, followers could wish to maintain expectations on a possible new installment pretty low.