Star-studded horror game Silent Hills has apparently been canceled
Last August, Sony pulled off a pretty exciting video game announcement in the form of P.T., an unassuming demo that was released to the PlayStation Store with very little fanfare. As far as anyone could tell, P.T. was just a horror game where you explore a spooky house, but as more and more people were able to complete it, word began to spread that there was a lot more to P.T. than anyone had realized. At the end of the demo, the game revealed that it was actually a stealth preview for a Silent Hill reboot starring a digitized version of Norman Reedus, and it was being developed by Hideo Kojima (the creator of Metal Gear Solid) and Guillermo del Toro.
The game was called Silent Hills, and we didn’t hear much about it after that. It’s not unusual for games to get announced and then fade away for a while, so nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the time. Then, Konami (the studio that publishes the Silent Hill and Metal Gear games) essentially scrubbed the existence of Hideo Kojima from its website, which led many to believe that he and the company had parted ways—and with only months before Metal Gear Solid V is supposed to be released. Konami eventually put out a statement saying, basically, that everything was fine and nobody had mysteriously quit/been fired, but it wasn’t exactly reassuring to the fans who were left wondering about the status of one of the most iconic game developers in the world.