Konami Just Made Moves On Silent Hill Revival
After worries that Konami was abandoning Silent Hill, the developer has officially renewed its trademark and got us finally hoping that a new game is on the way.
17th Mar 2022 14:19
Konami
Konami Just Made Moves On Silent Hill Revival
After worries that Konami was abandoning Silent Hill, the developer has officially renewed its trademark and got us finally hoping that a new game is on the way.
17th Mar 2022 14:19
Konami
Will they, won't they? It's the question everyone (well, some of us) is asking when it comes to Konami's ever-stagnant relationship with Silent Hill. 2022 marks a whole decade since we last had a game from the horror series, with the lacklustre Silent Hill: Downpour being a pretty poor way to end the story.
Of course, we've all heard about the disaster of P.T., Silent Hills, and Hideo Kojima's public split from Konami to form Kojima Productions. That all happened in 2015, and some seven years later, Silent Hill sits alongside Castlevania and Metal Gear as Konami's forgotten franchises.
Is Konami Bringing Back Silent Hill?
On an almost weekly basis, you'll find conflicting reports that Konami is lighting the fires beneath Silent Hill one minute, then dousing them like our hopes the next. Only recently, you might remember we covered how Konami has seemingly abandoned the Silent Hill domain name - which led to one troll buying it and using a scathing tweet to populate the homepage.
In a rare bit of good news from the dormant survival horror, it looks like Konami has renewed the Silent Hill trademark (still not the domain though). Over on Reddit, eagle-eyed fans spotted that Konami renewed the name on March 15. This sliver of hope was enough for Silent Hill fandom to burst forward.
One happy gamer wrote, "It's only a matter time, before we get a game announcement," while the OP rightly reminded us, "Best part of this trademark is we know Konami hasn't forgotten about Silent Hill. Critics pointed out that Konami renewed the trademark back in 2019 for certain territories, and with still no movement, we shouldn't get our hopes up. But... is there more to the story?
Does A Trademark Renewal Really Point To A New Silent Hill?
The Reddit thread reminds us that the trademark covers "game software" and "headsets for virtual reality." There's been nothing VR to ever come out of Silent Hill, and remembering that we recently got the VR port of the beloved Resident Evil 4, a VR version of an old Silent Hill game could be one way to remind us what we're missing.
Then again, knowing Konami's history, it could simply be for some of the "numerous non-game related goods and services." It was also in 2019 that Konami (sort of) brought back Silent Hill as a Pachinko machine. We go back to it time and time again, but there were some pretty solid whispers of multiple Silent Hill games being in the works, and while nothing has been made official yet, we can potentially see the top of Pyramid Head in the distance.
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Tom Chapman
Tom is Trending News Editor at GGRecon, with an NCTJ qualification in Broadcast Journalism and over seven years of experience writing about film, gaming, and television. With bylines at IGN, Digital Spy, Den of Geek, and more, Tom’s love of horror means he's well-versed in all things Resident Evil, with aspirations to be the next Chris Redfield.
