2010.03.06|Climax working on next-gen Silent
Hill?
According to the recent
job posting Climax is
currently looking for a
narrative designer to work on
their next-gen project. The
job's description have some
hints that it might be next
Silent Hill. First, it's the
same team which worked on Silent
Hill: Shattered Memories.
Second, the requirement for the
person is "passion for story
driven games (especially in the
action adventure/horror genres)
and storytelling". Last but not
least, it's Climax who have
stated a definite wish to make
another Silent Hill game if
given the chance in the recent
interviews. So this might be it.
Might be not. Time will show.
2010.03.06|Japanese Silent Hill: Shattered
Memories special site
Official Japanese site for
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
has been updated with a new
added microsite. This special
site includes a minigame
involving a psyche evaluation by
Dr. K with the initial test from
the original game. Besides this
the site has some basic game
information, a trailer and a
simple puzzle.
2010.02.28|Silent Hill: Shattered Memories:
Interview with Sam Barlow
New interview in which Silent
Hill: Shattered Memories writer
and lead designer Sam Barlow
answers to Revogamers users'
'test'.
Revogamers: Interview with Sam
Barlow
According to this week's issue
of Famitsu magazine after his
unexpected departure from Konami
Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill
series composer and producer,
has signed on with Grasshopper
Manufacture game studio.
"I really love Yamaoka,"
Grasshopper head Goichi Suda
said in an interview. "Ever
since I saw a video of Silent
Hill 2 at the Tokyo Game Show
nine years ago, I've always
dreamed of working alongside
him. That's why I thought I'd
invite him over when I started
hearing rumors that he left
Konami."
"It was a case of really good
timing," Yamaoka told Famitsu.
"I knew about Suda long before I
met him; I saw Grasshopper as
one of those few Japanese
outfits whose games can appeal
to an overseas audience. I had a
chance to meet him in Los
Angeles and we talked about this
and that, and once we started
discussing how we wanted to do
something creative for a world
audience, I was hooked on the
company."
Grasshopper Manufacture was
founded in 1998 by the famous game
designer Goichi Suda (also known
as Suda51) and is notorious for
such titles as No More Heroes
and Killer 7. Yamaoka has
already contributed tracks to
studio's latest game No More
Heroes 2 (listen to one of the
tracks on
YouTube) and according to
the source he will be put to
work on an untitled action
horror game for Electronic Arts
codeveloped with Q Entertainment
and produced by Resident Evil
creator Shinji Mikami. The
project is expected to be
announced at E3 trade show later
this year. Although his current
tasks involve only composing
music for Grasshopper's games,
Yamaoka indicates that he would
like to use his "total sum of
experience" to create games in
the future.
2010.02.02|
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories:
G4's interview with Tomm Hulett
First Silent
Hill: Shattered Memories post
release interview with Tomm
Hulett which you can read
here. In the interview Tomm
talks about game's development
stages, how they came up with
the idea of the reimagining and
how they implemented it, the
twisted ending, the canonicity
of the game and many more.
2010.01.24|
The EGTV Show: Silent Hill Shattered
Memories
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
review and interview of the
game's developers by Eurogamer
TV:
2010.01.23|
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Japanese
release
Game Watch revealed the
information on the upcoming
release of Silent Hill:
Shattered Memories in Japan. The
game has received C (age 15 and
over) CERO rating and will hit
the stores on March 25. Wii
version is priced 6,090 yen,
while PSP version is 5,250 yen /
4,200 yen (UMD version /
download). No information if
Japanese will get the PS2
edition of the game as well.
Also there are some new Wii and
PSP screenshots - look at them
in the
game's gallery.
2010.01.05|
Making of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
soundtrack
Joe Romersa
wrote 3
songs for Silent Hill: Shattered
Memories
with Mary Elisabeth McGlynn on
vocals as usual.
This time he decided to bring a
camera to the studio and shoot
some footage of their recording
sessions. Have a peek at the
process in this two part
documentary: