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Bloober Team CEO: ‘Silent Hill 2’ Remake is “Technically Ready”

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Bloober Team has revealed that progress on their Silent Hill 2 remake is “technically ready”, according to Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno. Babieno revealed the status of the highly-anticipated return of the franchise in a recent translated interview with Polish website Bankier.

Silent Hill 2 is technically ready. That doesn’t mean the game is over, but we’re close,” explained Babieno. “However, the issues of the publishing schedule lie with our partners, what the promotion will look like and when the title will debut, it does not lie directly in our hands.” This is the latest update on Silent Hill 2 since Bloober Team had revealed last October that the game was in an “advanced stage” of development.

Elsewhere in the interview, much like Babieno’s interview with IGN a few weeks back, the CEO talked of Bloober Team’s evolution as a company. “We are slowly moving away from storytelling in favor of games that will be based on mechanics recognizable to the broad consumer.”

According to Babieno, market research showed that Bloober Team titles had a “sales ceiling” of two million copies, which Babieno hopes to eclipse soon with Bloober Team’s 3.0 evolution. “It can be assumed that 10 million copies sold is a reach that will soon be real for us,” Babieno said.

Whether that 10 million involves Silent Hill 2 remains to be seen, as Babieno also notes that survival horror games have a higher ceiling than two million in sales.

Silent Hill 2 is currently in development for PC via Steam and the PlayStation 5, with the Xbox Series coming at a later date.

Thanks to Video Games Chronicle for the heads up.

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‘Resident Evil’ Cast Reunite With Rebecca Chambers’ Actress [Watch]

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Director Andrew Saullo has just dropped the second Resident Evil cast reunion. And this time, Charlie KraslavskyGreg Smith and Eric Pirius (who played Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Albert Wesker, respectively) are joined by the surprise addition of Rebecca Chambers’ actress, known as Linda! The quartet were joined by Saullo, as well as Residence of Evil founder JJ Trulock to discuss (what else?) their experience with Resident Evil, as well as some behind-the-scenes info on the shoot for the cutscenes.

Regarding the shoot for the cutscenes, Linda said that the experience “left a really big impact” on her at the time. “It was a big day. It was a wild shoot and it was very different than anything else that I had been doing in Japan at the time when I was modelling.” Still, Linda did remember her fellow actors, though she admitted that they all “looked a little bit different” at the time, including herself. “I remember for the shoot, I actually had blonde hair, and they spray painted my hair that morning so I would look more like Rebecca.”

As for her knowledge of Resident Evil, Linda admitted that she’s still learning about the series and her character. “I didn’t know a lot about the job, or that anyone was looking for [me] up until probably about four years ago, where someone reached out to me and they found me. But even then, I didn’t understand the magnitude of the entire situation. Only now I’m realizing like wow, there’s maybe someone out there that you know it’s like ‘Wow, that’s Rebecca Chambers!’. So it’s new to me, and I’m kind of just going with it.”

The interview (which you can check out below) also includes a special announcement of a four-part fan-made web series, which will be directed by Andrew Saullo (who also directed the fan-made short The Keeper’s Diary, in case you missed it). All four of the actors will be reprising their roles in the web series. It will not be an official Resident Evil series (for copyright reasons). Crowdfunding for the project will be launched “soon”.

 

 

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