Rumor: Konami would revive Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill

For a few years now, Konami has been fairly silent on the premium gaming front, preferring to focus on their presumably lucrative pachinko content instead.

In 2015, everything exploded dramatically with the cancellation of Silent hills, the removal of the creepy and beloved teaser TP from the PlayStation Store, and the seemingly acrimonious departure of studio prodigy Hideo Kojima – but earlier this year Konami reassured us all that they “hadn’t” closed “their video game division, despite news from internal restructuring.

Now we finally find out what they meant. According to anonymous sources who spoke to VGC, the company responsible for the games Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill would bring them all to life.

The first new release will be a Castlevania game, according to VGC sources, who describe it as a “reimagining” of the series that is being developed in-house at Konami.

Meanwhile, a remake of one of the early Metal Gear Solid games is apparently in the works at an external Singapore-based studio, Virtuos – which worked on the Switch ports of Dark Souls: Remastered, The Outer Worlds, and LA Noire. Sources suggested that it will be Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but that Konami will also be remastering the original MGS games for current-gen consoles.

The sources also said that “several” Silent Hill games are in production, also at external studios, which seems to confirm (or at least allude to) several rumors that have been circulating for some time – firstly, that Bloober Team (The Medium) could be working on the series, and second, that Konami himself is working on remakes.

VGC speculates that we might find out more about at least one of Konami’s remakes, remakes, and remasters next year, after the company pulled out of E3 2021, saying it was “not yet ready to present “its games.

Will any of these new / old games come to Nintendo Switch? It remains to be seen. But Silent Hill would be really nice on an OLED screen …

Are you excited to hear that Konami is going back to its roots, or do you think they’ve lost their spark? Let us know in the comments below!