Oh, Konami! You sweet, adorable, totally not cartoonishly inept company who dashed the hopes of a Silent Hill sequel featuring Kojima and Del-Toro on the rocks of… Well, not the profit motive, that’s for sure!

Konami forgot to renew it’s rights to the official Silent Hill website domain, leading to a substantially more business savvy individual buying rights to the website from right under the company’s nose. Will things stay like this? The answer is yes, but actually no, but definitely maybe!

Konami does own the rights to Silent Hill (much to the dismay of the fanbase), so they may be able to reacquire the website in the future. Oddly enough though, this isn’t K-Dawg’s first rodeo with not bothering renewing websites of it’s IPs (intellectual property), so I wouldn’t be too worried.

What happened to SilentHill.com? Besides replacing every asset and link with a single screenshot of The Famous Pyramid Head Tweet (that was a fun one to write about), the meta description reads “He Was First”. Perhaps Masahiro Ito had some prior knowledge of this little prank, or it’s generally referring to the designer’s agreement with many fans that Silent Hill games dropped in quality the further they got from the third one.

On a related note, Konami announced sometime last year that games from “new and existing IPs” will be in development in collaboration with BlooberTeam, an indie game company. Will Konami try to replace the ‘P’ in CPUs to stand for ‘Pachinko’? Will BlooberTeam touch their hearts enough to magically make them gift Kojima with the Metal Gear Solid rights on Christmas Day? Find out next time on Dragonball Z!

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Masahiro Ito, largely known for his work as a lead artist and designer for the early Silent Hill games, recently Tweeted the colorfully-worded hottake of “I wish I hadn’t designed f**kin Pyramid Head“!

Naturally, this prompted many a fan’s curiosity as to why this is the case, myself included. And if you’re reading this because you’re expecting an explanation, what a coincidence, I’d like one too! Ito’s immediate responses were “I don’t Tweet the reason” and “The reason is not that I can’t get paid for the statues. I’ve never gotten paid for those in the first place”.

Forget ‘Death of the Author‘ theory, this is like if the author walked into a pitchfork-wielding mob with a sign that says ‘I dare you’ strapped to his back! Not that I’m complaining, I’m also partial to sitting back and watching the masses fill in the blanks with their imaginations while sipping a house red and watching the calamity unfold like:

While I have you, let’s go over some Pyramid Head trivia to pass the time!

Ito’s passion for German WW2-era tanks played a role in Pyramid Head’s design, the edges of his helmet being inspired by the lower hull of a ‘king tiger’ tank. Considering Pyramid Head is read by many as a semi-Freudian metaphor for hyper-masculinity and sexual frustration, I suppose it’s only natural his design be partly based on something that has a long protruding tip designed to blow holes in anything that moves. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Amongst other major horror franchises, our triangularly-challenged sword-wielding mascot has been added to Dead By Daylight.

One of Pyramid Head’s most infamous moments in Silent Hill is a scene where it is assaulting two sentient mannequin enemies. Ito has half-jokingly commented how his involvement in directing the scene made finding a girlfriend difficult. He’s also claimed Pyramid Head wasn’t meant to represent overtly sexual primarily, but also act as a symbolic presentation of the protagonist’s desire to rid himself of his repressed feelings.

And last, but not least, I’ll love and leave you with this handy-dandy more lighthearted overview of the character by Fact Fiend. Because when you’re low on content, a little creative theft never hurt anyone!

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PT still stings. The playable teaser for a new Silent hill game, Directed by the dream duo of Hideo Kojima and Guilermo Del Toro, was released unannounced onto the playstation store, and was an instant classic. Unfortunately this was then followed near immediately by the news that Kojima was leaving Komani after Metal gear solid 5, and that the game was canceled. Obviously Kojima would late go on to re-use a lot of the ideas he had for the Cancelled Silent Hills in death Stranding, but as of now the silent hill franchise is still in limbo.

With no way to play PT itself anymore, the game having been pulled from the PlayStation store a few years back, enterprising reddit User ROBYER1 took it upon themselves to re-create the games iconic hallway for VR. Using a free 3d modeling software called blender, ROBYER1 then ported the model to be used as a virtual home for the Oculus quest from facebook. If you have the space in your home you can even use roomscale to fully explore the environment.

P.T. Hallway from Silent Hills in Meta/Oculus Quest as a Custom VR Home! (Link in comments) from silenthill

This is just a re-creation of the area, and you cannot complete the original games puzzles or gain access to the secret trailer that was hidden at the end of the experience. However, ROBYER1 has said there are some hidden secrets arround the map for enterprising players to find if they go looking.

This map will not work natively on Occulus quest, and needs to be sideloaded onto the headset though the use of the program “sidequest”.

Its hard to think that Silent hills would not have been a huge success had it come out, given how enduringly iconic PT is to this day. As of now, konami hasnt said anything on the subject of silent hill for a while outside of the ever-present pachinko machines that make up most of Konami’s output for their classic franchises these days. There have been whispers of Komani Licensing the franchise to some third party developers to make their own take on the series, but as of right now nothing has been firmly announced.

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Major Japanese publisher Konami is reportedly making a comeback next year with some of its biggest franchises

According to VGC, Konami is set to make a huge return into the gaming industry with major franchises that have been dormant for a good few years.

The Japanese publisher is one of the largest in the gaming industry, however, has been lacking some new releases for their biggest titles, such as Castlevania, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear Solid, but that is set to change thanks to an anonymous source that spoke to the UK based gaming news source.

Konami’s Return

Over the past few years, Konami has decreased its output of console games and turned its attention to Pachinko gambling games in Japan (something very fun and very very addicting so kudos for them). However, the company has stated it has had a recent restructure and is set to bring back its biggest franchises in various ways.

The first in the lineup is a new Castlevania game, described as a “reimagining” of the series. Castlevania has already made a comeback recently with the Castlevania Advanced Collection for the Nintendo Switch (and soon to be other consoles), yet the last, new Castlevania game that was released by Konami was in 2014 with Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. Castlevania has always been a popular title, yet since then, the vampire hunting franchise has gotten bigger thanks to the Netflix animated series first released in 2017. The new game is stated to already be in development at Konami, with the support of external studios.

It is also said multiple games for the Silent Hill franchise are currently in development at various external development studios. The last game from the main series published by Konami was Silent Hill Downpour, released back in 2012. The news of this project came earlier in the year, but also carried a lot of speculation since the team at the independent studio Bloober did not deny nor confirm what the team was working on. There was also another rumour that Japanese video game designer Kojima could be working on one of the many new games, yet it has been confirmed to be false.

Another franchise Konami has a new game in development for is Metal Gear Solid. Metal Gear Solid has also not received a new game for some time, with the last title being Metal Gear Solid: Survive, released back in 2018. It is said that gaming developer Virtuos is working with Konami to bring the project to life, along with the remasters of the Metal Gear Solid games for modern consoles. The developer has recently worked on the Switch ports for franchises such as Dark Souls, BioShock, and Battlefield. It is said that the new project will be centred around Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, which will go down well with fans of that particular instalment.

So, a busy year is in store for Konami. The Japanese publisher has told VGC that we can expect to see all of these publically showcased in major shows next year- the company had to pull out of E3 2021 due to timing issues, but it seems it’s ready to come back swinging into the industry with all these hefty instalments lined up.

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