Next Silent Hill teased, more to be revealed at E3 @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on April 09, 2010

News: Scary days are here again.

The biggest surprise of Konami's 2010 Gamer's Night event was an appearance by the company's spookiest franchise, Silent Hill. Konami used the event to unveil an appropriately creepy teaser trailer (that definitely meets the definition of the word "tease") for a new game in the series:

A brief trailer for the game opened with a camera slowly panning across a dimly lit environment. One item that stood out from the backdrop: a green traffic sign with the words "Silent Hill" clearly legible even in the darkness. A moment later, a lone male figure was shown in the middle of a street, which was obscured by the survival horror series' trademark fog.

The man--clearly afraid of something--glanced furtively around the environment, before being attacked by a ghastly figure in the trailer's closing seconds. Finally, the trailer closed with the phrase "The Silence Ends [at E3]".

Thanks to GameSpot for the great play-by-play of the trailer. Two other reports from around the web revealed a bit more about the next Silent Hill.

An article on Gamasutra confirms that the game is in devlepment at Vatra Games, a new studio in the Czech Republic that specializes in PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 projects.

This dovetails nicely with the second report, from G4 that confirms the game is in the works for "next gen consoles" (AKA the PS3 and Xbox 360).

We'll have more at E3.