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Definitive dates for Silent Hill HD, Downpour, and Book of Memories have been handed out by Konami, and all are coming in March.

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“I’d love for [Akira Yamaoka] to be involved. Unfortunately, he left Konami, and can’t do the music for the new games [which is] a Japanese business politics sort of thing. We’d like for him to be there, but he’s not. So we took seriously finding a replacement, because you can’t throw in just any old sound guy. So we found Dan Licht, who does the music on Dexter. He was actually our top choice, so we were fortunate that he was willing to jump in.” – Silent Hill: Downpour producer Tomm Hullet to GameFront.

Silent Hill: Downpour producer Devin Shatsky has said when designing the game, Vatra decided to add more realistic weapons and combat to the game, making it stand out from the last entry in the series, Homecoming.

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Brian Gomez, the design director for Silent Hill: Downpour, has announced his departure from Vatra Games.

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Untroubled by piling all its eggs in one basket, Konami has scheduled three new Silent Hill games in close succession.

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Konami’s confirmed to Beefjack that Silent Hill: Downpour has been pushed into next year, given a release of Q2 2012 following recent date changes on retailers, including Amazon Germany. The horror, due to come from Czech-based developer Vatra Games, was meant to release this coming winter on PS3 and 360. Read this for our interview with Vatra on the game from earlier this year.

A new trailer for the latest installment in Konami’s long-running Silent Hill series debuted at TGS this week. More »

Konami has released screeshots for Silent Hill: Downpour and Silent Hill HD Collection out of TGS. Both are slated for release in October, and Japan will see the HD Collection released in 2012.

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Amazon UK has Silent Hill: Downpour down for a November 4 release, ahead of any official confirmation from Konami. The survival horror had previously been expected at the end of October, on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The retailer also posted a cover image which fits the series aesthetic so far. Head through the break to see the full thing.

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Silent Hill fans were worried when the latest project lost its long-time, greatly respected composer Akira Yamaoka, but the game’s design director says that they’re getting along just fine without him.
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Konami has released some new screenshots from Vatra’s Silent Hill: Downpour, and each is unsurprisingly dreary. Not like any of the Silent Hill games are full of unicorn and rainbows or anything, just an observation is all. The game is slated for a winter release on PS3 and Xbox 360, and it is also expected for PS Vita whenever it hits stores.

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Barely a month after E3, Konami’s the first company to announce its line-up for gamescom. The starting gun for Cologne has gone off.

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EG’s announced that Konami will support this year’s Eurogamer Expo in Earls Court. The Japanese publisher, which now joins the likes of EA and Namco Bandai in attending the show, will have Silent Hill: Downpour and PES 2012 on the showfloor.

Eurogamer Expo takes place from September 22-25 at Earls Court, London.

Vatra has released a few more shots of Silent Hill: Downpour to go along with the ones released yesterday. Still gloomy, and looking as though your doom is near. We can’t wait for the series to scare us once more come October on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Name three things you’d expect to see in Silent Hill: Downpour screenshots. If you said “dark”, “more dark” and “deepest dark”, boy, you are not going to be disappointed.

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Konami aired the E3 trailer for Silent Hill: Downpour last night during the publisher’s pre-E3 press conference. The Vatra horror’s looking in very fine form, but was pushed into a winter release instead of the previously-planned fall. When it does release, it’ll be on PS3 and 360. Read the full report from the Konami presser, which included details of a HD Collection and an NGP game, here.

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Four more heavy-hitting presentations have been added to GDC Europe’s schedule.

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The Facebook page for Silent Hill: Downpour has been “liked” enough to where a new teaser footage has been posted for the game.

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MCV‘s reporting that Konami is currently looking at a November launch for the 3DS remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

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Can Silent Hill’s fans ever be assuaged? We speak to Silent Hill: Downpour’s producers on atmosphere, competition, soundtrack and that fabled first-person segment.

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