Konami has detailed the HD Collection for Metal Gear Solid which features 1080p versions of MGS2: Sons of Liberty, MGS3: Subsistence and MGS: Peace Walker. Bluepoint are behind the project who brought us the God of War Collection on PS3, and it's "not just emulation" but some remake. What of the two other HD bundles?
Konami has confirmed today at Gamescom that Silent Hill Collection will be hitting the Xbox 360. Until the announcement, only a PlayStation 3 version had been confirmed.
Silent Hill series producer Tomm Hulett reveals that Silent Hill 4: The Room isn't in the HD Collection because series fans didn't really want it enough. The team wanted to focus on those they "knew fans cared the most about", which is the 2nd and 3rd Silent Hill games. HD could include 'more in future'.
Character James Sunderland gets a new voice in Konami's Silent Hill 2 HD remake, and actor Troy Baker defends the process and the decisions that led to it. They're "tied to the original performances" when re-recording which causes problems, in expectation and execution. New voice is original actor's fault.
Siliconera conducted an interview with Konami USA senior associate producer Tomm Hulett regarding the latest in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill: Downpour, who explained how the difficulty settings would work for puzzles, since the game has separate difficulty sliders for puzzles and action gameplay.
Konami's waterlogged survival horror game, Silent Hill: Downpour, has been delayed and will miss a 2011 release. The new release window is sometime between January and March of 2012.
Konami has announced that the Silent Hill 2 portion of the Silent Hill HD Collection will have the option to use the original voice acting.
The highly anticipated Silent Hill HD Collection was to be released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on the 24th January, but Konami has announced that the HD remake bundle has been delayed, and won't be available until March
Konami has announced the North American release dates for its Silent Hill titles being released in 2012, including the Silent Hill HD Collection and Silent Hill: Downpour.
It seems that players will be able to purchase Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 separately, as an alternative to buying both in the Silent Hill HD Collection bundle. This was hinted at when the PEGI ratings board listed two different ratings for each game, as well as the Collection.
Silent Hill fans are undoubtedly disappointed by Konami's recent update regarding the Silent Hill HD Collection: the bundle has once again been delayed. Fortunately, the delay is not as big as the previous one. The game will be delayed from the 6th March to two weeks later on the 20th March. The original launch date had been January.
Konami has announced that its two-game Silent Hill HD Collection, which is being developed for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, will be released on 29th March in Europe. Silent Hill HD Collection contains both the second and third games from the series, which were both released for the PlayStation 2. These versions benefit from updated HD graphics, while the soundtrack has been re-recorded along with the dialogue by the original vocal artists.
Music composer Akira Yamaoka, who is best known for scoring the Silent Hill series, sees the videogame industry "struggling" in Japan, and thinks that the industry must adapt, whether that means developing lower budget games for a Japanese audience or learning how to make Western-style games.
The future of the horror genre is a murky one as before everything "clicked" in the early days of the genre, even the "clunky combat, confusing cameras" and other shortcomings. Now "everyone fixed the combat" resulting in "action games with creepier monsters." Real horror comes from "frightening gameplay happening naturally" with choice scares thrown in.
Open Road Films has aquired the rights to make Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, the sequel to 2006's Silent Hill film, released by TriStar Pictures.
Konami has announced that patches are in the pipeline for both Silent Hill: Downpour and Silent Hill HD Collection on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The patches will generally correct frame rate and audio synch issues.
Amnesia developer Frictional Games, a small studio in Sweden, has highlighted 10 points that will "evolve horror" as a genre. It's what is need to take horror "to the next level," they say. It should start off "very mundane" in setting to give us normalcy so we can "draw close parallels" to our own lives. Let the horror elements take a while to build to so it hits better.
The PlayStation 3 release of the Silent Hill HD Collection has been updated with a patch weighing in at 348MB. It lists six areas of improvement such as an improved framerate. Voice synch is also "greatly improved" and missing sounds and music have been resolved. The studio has also tackled "fog density issues". There's no word on an Xbox 360 title update.
The developer of Silent Hill: Downpour is a Czech-based studio by the name of Vatra Games. Apparently its owner, Kuju, are reviewing the business amid rumours it faces possible closure. The "new management team" at Kuju stress that "no decisions have yet been made" at this time. Silent Hill: Downpour released earlier this year but didn't make too big a splash.
Konami has announced that the PlayStation 3 patch for Silent Hill HD Collection is now live, the Xbox 360 patch has been cancelled "due to technical issues and resources."