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Report: Konami turning to external devs for new Metal Gear, Castlevania and Silent Hill titles

Report: Konami turning to external devs for new Metal Gear, Castlevania and Silent Hill titles

A new report has said that Japanese publisher Konami has no entries in the Metal Gear, Castlevania and Silent Hill franchises in the works.

That's according to VGC, which reports that the company is making a new Castlevania title internally, with the assistance of some local external studios. This game is apparently a "reimagining."

Apparently a remake of the classic Metal Gear Solid – or the third entry in the series, Snake Eater – is also in the pipeline with Singapore's Virtuos reportedly at the helm. VGC also reports that Konami has plans to release remasters of the original Metal Gear Solid titles.

Finally, the outlet says that a new Silent Hill project could be announced at some point in 2022. Said title has apparently been outsourced to "a prominent Japanese developer."

News about a fresh entry in the Silent Hill franchise have been swirling for some time now, with Poland's Bloober Team having to play down speculation that it is working on said title. Konami announced a partnership with the studio in June of this year.

In January 2021, Konami restructured its development teams though said that it had no plans to drop out of the video games market.


PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor

Alex Forbes-Calvin is a freelance writer and photographer, mostly operating within the games industry. Over his career, he has written for the likes of MCV, Eurogamer, GamesIndustry.biz, The Observer, VGC and Esquire. That's on top of writing books for Dark Horse on RuneScape, Assassin's Creed, Dead Island 2 and more.