Konami is set to revive Metal Gear, Castlevania and Silent Hill | VGC
The Japanese publisher will reveal major projects after a period of relative quiet…
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However, following a restructure to the company's game development divisions earlier this year, Konami is now focused on bringing back its biggest brands to the premium games space, VGC was told.
The first of these titles will be a new Castlevania game, which sources described as a "reimagining" of the series currently in development internally at Konami in Japan, with support from local external studios.
There's been much speculation that Demon's Souls studio Bluepoint could be working on a remake of Metal Gear Solid. However, VGC was told the series is actually being worked on by an external studio based in China.
The remake project is currently in early development and multiple sources suggested it would be centred around fan-favourite entry Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, rather than the original MGS.
Konami also intends to release remasters of the original Metal Gear Solid games for modern consoles, ahead of the larger project, we understand.
Finally, multiple Silent Hill games are currently in development at various external development studios, as per an earlier VGC report from February.
One of these projects was outsourced to a prominent Japanese developer earlier this year, we were told.
Konami should publicly showcase its plans at major shows next year, disruption from the pandemic permitting. Konami pulled out of this year's E3 2021 show due to "timing" issues, although at the time it confirmed it had "a number of key projects" in the works.
In short:
Konami restructured earlier this year to develop premium games.
first project is internally developed castlevania which is a reimagining.
Multiple Silent Hill games in development, one of them is by a prominent Japanese studio.
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