Fans of the original Silent Hill now have the chance to play the Japan exclusive Silent Hill Play Novel. 

Originally released in March 2001, the game was available for the Game Boy Advance and was created as an intereactive story. You can choose to follow Cybil or Harry and the player is given various choices to progress through the game and are rewarded with digital trading cards at the end. 

Fortunately for Silent Hill fans Giromancy of the Silent Hill Community has ported Harry Mason's story over to PC with Cybil on the way in the near future. The ported game even features alternative endings.

You can download the game to play yourself right here. 

A video featuring a 2007 beta version of Silent Hill Origins has appeared online via the Youtube Channel PtoPOnline. This particular video shows unfinishing content that would eventually lead to the final version of the game.

Origins was originally being made by Climax LA but was fortunately scrapped (It originally featured Zombies) and production was transferred to Climax UK. With Origins now in the UK teams hands they had to pretty much start from scratch to create a game worthy of the Silent Hill title. 
Below is the prototype video in which there are a number of changes and difference within it that would ultimately lead up to the final finished product. 

You can also see an additional video below which features the original early work and ideas for Origins when it was still being made by Climax LA. 

After what feels like forever, the soundtrack to the original Silent Hill is finally being released on Vinyl this Wednesday (April 11th 17) via Mondo.

Once again the artwork comes from Sam Wolfe Connelly who previously designed two limited edition posters for Mondo which were sold in April of last year. 

The vinyl is pressed on 2X 180 Gram "Snow Fall" Colored Vinyl (Clear with Heavy White splatter) and features an image of Harry's crashed car on the sleeve. 

Priced at $30, the soundtracks goes on sale at 12 noon (Cst time). A black retail variant is also available. 

You can check out additional images below and more information right here. 
Here's hoping this is the first of many Silent Hill soundtracks. 

Masahiro Ito has shared an concept image from an unheard of Silent Hill game he was potentially working on in 2013. 

The small image Ito uploaded appears to show the beginning of a entrance or long hallway. Unforuntately the image itself is quite small and Ito can't/won't upload a high res image so details are hard to distinguish but Twitter users have asked for more information. 

Ito stated that it's a concept image he was working on in 2013 and was not part of P.T as he was not involved in that project. He also states that he cannot describe the image as it "contains metathors of the story". 

As great as this is to see additional Silent Hill concept ideas from Ito himself, it's sad to see that if this wasn't a part of Silent Hills that it would appear another game was canned before even having a chance to shine. Fingers crossed Konami are taking huge notes about this and are working on something big already. 

You can check out a slightly bigger image of the concept art below.

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​Way back in April 2015 Gecco announced they were working on two more Silent Hill statues but since then very little information has appeared about them. 

The most recent update came from Whitney of Silent Hill Historical Society in December. She reached out to Gecco to see if there was any news to share with regards to the statues but unfortunately was told that they're still working on them and will post any news to their Facebook page.

​As it was only two months ago that we had an update I decided to contact Gecco myself but instead of asking for an update I was curious to see if Gecco had any plans to release any additional merchandise this year. As Gecco have released a bunch of T Shirts and iPhone cases in the past I wanted to see if we can expect more additional items to come. 

​Gecco responded to my email to let me know that there was no update on the statues (Which I expected) but they;


"Hopefully will release other items this year, and they are more like accessories".

So expect even more awesome releases possibly this year from Gecco! 

Just when you think the dust has settled on P.T, the teaser for what would have been Silent Hills, a fan has opened up a whole new can of worms and it's glorious!

On the 1st of December (2016) XeNTaX forum user: Luxox18 revealed that they had datamined P.T and revealed files that have never been seen before. As well as being able to make use of the files (which have already been used in MGSV) you can also see full models of Norman Redus, Lisa, the sink fetus and more.

Since discovering that P.T has been decrypted, users have gone crazy picking apart of the teaser to see what they can find.

Check out some of the images below and view more via the XeNTaX forum, Neogaf and Facepunch.

With P.T now being pulled apart, there really isn't much else it can show us. Surely after nearly 2 years it's time to put it to rest and say goodbye?

Mondo today announced that they are working on a series of posters, vinyls and collectibles for a number of popular Konami titles including Castlevania and Silent Hill. The releases are directly in partnership with Konami themselves. 

The posters will be available exclusively at their booth during the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle on April 7th. The Silent Hill posters feature a nurse and come in two variants, both are limited edition with the general poster being limited to 125 prints and its red variant only 75. 

As well as this Mondo have announced they will be releasing various soundtracks on Vinyl this year also. Although Silent Hill is confirmed, which soundtracks will be releases is yet to be announced. No release date has been announced as of yet. 

You can check out the posters below.

Gecco Corp have revealed that a new Silent Hill statue is finally on the way! Although it isn't exactly 'new' it is a first for Robbie the Rabbit.

A new green variant statue of Robbie the Rabbit is due to be released in 2016 and will be priced at $150. 

There are already a total of 3 variants of this statue available (Bloody Blue, Bloody Pink and a clean souvenir version) making this the 4th Robbie variant to be released by Gecco Corp. One thing that instantly stands out for me is the shade of green he is.
This particular variant is taken from the Usagi short film from The Art of Silent Hill Dvd. Green Robbie only appears briefly and appears to lighter in colour. 

This statue will be distributed worldwide via D4TOYS and will be 1/6 in scale. Once again he will be flocked and will also come with a Chainsaw and gold pipe (another first). The chainsaw also has the words 'Together we are one' inscribed into the side. 

As Robbie also appears in Yellow and Purple, I wonder if we will see additional colours in the future. 

You can pre-order him from D4Toys.

Will you be pre-ordering Green Robbie?

On the 8th of September Konami revealed that Akira Yamaoka was coming to the Uk for 5 dates with a full live band. The shows titled 'Silent Hill Live' were to begin at the end of October and end on November 6th in Brighton.

The tour was extended soon after to 9 dates and also included Scotland on the tour. Luckily for myself I managed to grab tickets for the Brighton show and it was amazing. 

I had already read quite a lot about the tour, with Brighton being the last night, so was going in with a lot of mixed reviews and opinions of the show (mostly positive).
Upon entering the venue I was greeted by a large 'Welcome to Silent Hill' sign and a small table with merchandise available. Only black T shirts with 'Silent Hill Live' on the front and the tour dates on the back were for sale. Previous shows had had Signed and unsigned posters as well as a white variant of the shirt. My original plan was to grab one of everything available but instead had to settle for the one shirt. 

The venue (The Haunt) was small and intimate, it seemed as if one minute it was empty and the next full. This particular night hadn't sold out but with how many people that were already at the show I don't think many more really could have fit into the building. 
Above the stage was a large screen with continuous images of Silent Hill characters, creatures and locations being projected onto it.

The support came onto stage at around 8pm. Support for the tour was a solo act called Arcimago. An electronic mixture of sound and voice that lasted for just under half an hour. The support act, although usual was enjoyable and felt like it fit perfectly for the shows opening act. 

Just after 8:30pm Yamaoka came walking onto stage along with his band. Joining him on stage was Michihiro Imai, Israel Ulloa, Todd Jordan (who was also from Brighton and was lucky to receive the Welcome to Silent Hill sign signed by Yamaoka before he left) and Karina Scuteri who was the voice of the show. 

The show opened with Betrayal followed by Overdose Delusion and Theme of Laura. It all sounded amazing and the crowd was really getting into the entire show. When it was revealed that Mary Elizabeth McGlynn would not be on tour with Akira too, one of my main thoughts was the pressure the vocalist would be under to really cover the tracks we've all come to love. She nailed them. At times it was hard to hear her voice as the music did take over in places but she sang every song perfectly and really went for it. Her enthusiasm throughout the entire show was brilliant and she managed to get the crowd clapping and cheering along on several occasions. 

Songs such as Tender Sugar and Shot Down in Flames were performed as well a personal favourite of mine, Room of Angel. Which was hauntingly beautiful (highly appropriate given the venues name). 

The visuals on screen ranged from game cut scenes and trailer clips to actual gameplay videos and early previews. At one point in the show clips from the original trailer for Silent Hill Origins were being shown, where over the shoulder gameplay and zombies were originally going to be part of the game. 
As well as this clips from the Silent Hills concept teaser were also shown as well as Shattered Memories mod videos in which rust and blood replace ice. 
It seemed like whoever had created the videos for the show had snatched a huge bunch of Silent Hill clips together and just ran with it. 

The total time of the show was around 90 minutes which was actually longer than I thought it would be. The set list seemed longer than what I had read/heard from other people who had attended the show too. The encore ended with Love Psalm, Silent Hill, Promise and finally You're Not Here which really gave the crowd one last jump around before they finally bid farewell. 

As they bowed and left the stage everyone started to leave with a small group staying behind. Slowly one by one they also left with only three guests left behind (including myself). Then in came Akira Yamaoka with the band. After having a small chat with them all, shaking Akira's hand and thanking them all for an amazing show, he signed my T shirt and I left. It was one hell of an amazing experience which really topped off the whole night.

Overall the show was definitely a must see, from the visuals on screen, Akira himself and just the whole energy in the room it is a show I will definitely never forget. For fans in the UK I highly HIGHLY recommend seeing the show if it returns to the UK in the future. For everyone else, if Akira comes to a place near you, GO! ​

Full set list for Brighton:

Intro: Betrayal 

Overdose Delusion
Theme of Laura
Love Psalm
Silent Scream
Shot Down in Flames
Tender Sugar
I Want Love
Blow Back
Wounded Warsong
Room of Angel
Waiting for You
Your Rain
Hell Frozen Rain
When You're Gone

Encore:
Love Psalm instrumental
Silent Hill
Promise
You're Not Here

Gaya Entertainment have revealed that 5 new Silent Hill t shirts will be available this month (November). Originally teased by Konami, the shirts were finally revealed in full on Halloween.

The first designs feature various designs from the games. Lakeside Amusement Park, Heavens Night, Lakeview Hotel and more. 

Four of the shirts are available from the 9th of November with only one design (Lakeside Amusement Park) being released on the 25th of November. 

All shirts are available to pre-order now and come in sizes S-XXL. Priced at €18.98.

To pre-order yours click HERE



Click the images below to see a larger image of each shirt.