After many rumors and leaks, and over a decade with no main new sport, Konami will reveal the way forward for the Silent Hill sequence on Wednesday this week, at 5 p.m. EDT.

“In your restless dreams, do you see that town?” the corporate tweeted from the official Silent Hill account. “The latest updates for the SILENT HILL series, will be revealed during the #SILENTHILL Transmission on Wednesday, October 19th, at 2:00 PM. PDT.”

The tweet hyperlinks to a brand new Silent Hill web site, which has no additional data.

Masahiro Ito, who labored as monster designer and artwork director on the primary three Silent Hill video games, retweeted the announcement. Ito confirmed in 2020 that he was working as “a core member” of a growth staff on a brand new sport. A chunk of art work signed by Ito appeared in a sequence of photos that leaked earlier this 12 months, purporting to be from a brand new Silent Hill sport.

These photos are stated to narrate to a P.T.-style playable teaser for a brand new, mainline Silent Hill. South Korea’s sport rankings physique not too long ago rated a sport referred to as Silent Hill: The Short Message.

Also within the works, reportedly, is a remake of Silent Hill 2 made by Polish horror specialist Bloober Team (Layers of Fear), which introduced a partnership with Konami final 12 months. A 3rd rumored undertaking includes an episodic, story-focused sequence. Also, Christophe Gans, who directed the 2006 movie Silent Hill, has stated he’s engaged on the script for a 3rd Silent Hill film.

Any and all of this is likely to be revealed on Wednesday; it’s even attainable we’ll see the discharge of the reported playable teaser.

Despite being vastly in style with horror followers, the Silent Hill sequence has been kind of dormant since 2012, which noticed the discharge of Silent Hill: Downpour and handheld spinoff Silent Hill: Book of Memories. Neither title was properly obtained. The sequence was due for a high-profile relaunch in a sport referred to as Silent Hills, produced as a collaboration between Hideo Kojima and the movie director Guillermo del Toro, and promoted by the discharge of P.T. But the sport was cancelled in 2015 amid Kojima’s acrimonious departure from Konami and the writer’s partial retreat from main sport growth.

The return of Silent Hill is an enormous second for followers of the sequence, and it’s additionally an enormous take a look at for Konami, which hasn’t launched a significant online game since 2018’s Metal Gear Survive — except you rely the disastrous launch of its rebranded soccer franchise, eFootball. All eyes will probably be on Wednesday’s announcement to see if it may well rebuild gamers’ belief.