The Quick Message is free and out proper now, and Silent Hill 2 Remake will get a fight trailer – WGB

Konami and Sony have taken a web page from the Microsoft playbook by shadow-dropping Silent Hill: The Quick Message, a first-person horror recreation that’s free and accessible to obtain and play on PlayStation 5 proper now.

The sport made its debut at right this moment’s State of Play after initially being leaked by a South Korean score board again in 2022.

“Silent Hill: The Quick Message is a brand new, short-form Silent Hill title, that includes a younger, up to date protagonist. In 2022, we introduced a revival for the Silent Hill sequence, together with a number of new titles in growth, and this marks the primary of that new wave of video games to be launched. We’re excited to ship right this moment’s shock launch.” wrote Motoi Okamoto on the PlayStation weblog.

We’re releasing the entire recreation totally free, so in the event you’ve by no means performed a Silent Hill recreation earlier than, we hope you’ll take this opportunity to get a style of what Silent Hill is all about.

This new short-form expertise takes Silent Hill in a brand new path, as Okamato explains.

“We wished to make a brand new, trendy Silent Hill. As a part of that we explored how we might incorporate up to date issues. We ended up how trendy youth talk on-line and thru telephones, and the position that would play in a psychological horror story. As an example, a daunting factor about social media is how even insignificant particular person feedback can, en masse, construct and construct till they change into this overwhelming wave of hate crashing down on you.”

The State of Play additionally included a take a look at the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Workforce which was revealed again in 2022. Since then, the sport has been fairly quiet. After 2 years of close to silence, it was stunning that we didn’t even get a launch date for the remake. It was much more stunning that Konami and Bloober Workforce opted to deal with the fight for the trailer, revealing some janky animations.