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Rumour: ‘Silent Hill 2’ Remake Coming Q1 2024?
UPDATE: Per Eurogamer, Konami has clarified that the Best Buy listing for the Silent Hill 2 remake pre-order was based on “incorrect information”. The third line referring to Pyramid Head and the “special origin story” has now been removed.
The big question on several Silent Hill fans’ minds at the moment: Where’s Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake? Ever since the game was announced last year, and with conflicting information as to the game’s progress in development, there hasn’t been a lot of info in regards as to when we’d actually see the game.
Enter the various sources that have dropped tidbits of info that, while they might not be definitive, they do offer up clues about the remake, including its potential release date.
For starters, pre-orders have appeared on the Canadian version of the Best Buy website, with a summary of the game, an $89.99 price tag (in Canadian Dollars), as well as the box art. The summary includes a line about Pyramid Head being back, along with a “special origin story” for fans to play through. Depending on who you ask (given the phrasing), this either means that we’ll be getting content related to the origins of Pyramid Head, or this could refer to the “Born From a Wish” scenario that was included in the various special editions and re-releases of Silent Hill 2.
The listing also has a December 31, 2025 release date, which is more than likely a placeholder.
Things get even more interesting over at PCGameBenchmark, which lists the system requirements for the remake, as well as (originally) a March 21st, 2024 release date. Again, while there’s no source to back up to any of this information, the website points to a PCGamesN article stating that the game will arrive Q1 2024.
Then again, that PCGamesN article stated that the release date would be announced during an October Silent Hill Transmission stream that never happened.
Things get even weirder. According to X user Retro to Hero, PCGameBenchmark had changed their listing of the release date from that March 21st date to September 21, 2001 (the release date of the original game). Again, speculation is abound, but until Konami or Bloober Team make an announcement (even if it’s at The Game Awards this year), we just have to wait.
Silent Hill 2 is currently in development for PC via Steam and the PlayStation 5, with the Xbox Series coming at a later date.
Big thanks to RelyOnHorror for this info!
Director Andrew Saullo has just dropped the second Resident Evil cast reunion. And this time, Charlie Kraslavsky, Greg 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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