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• Silent Hill studio placed "under review"

  Kuju’s confirmed it’s assessing Silent Hill: Downpour studio Vatra’s business after EG.cz reported that the Silent Hill studio’s to close, GI reports.

• Silent Hill: Downpour producer urges horror to move past "shoddy gameplay"

  Games can be scary without counter-intuitive controls and dodgy graphics, according to Tomm Hulett of Silent Hill: Downpour developer Vatra Games.

• Silent Hill: Downpour cover features Spanish typo

  Gathered around a campfire, publishers whisper scary stories to each other, and none is more frightening than The Curse of the Survival Horror Typo.

• Silent Hill March: Downpour, HD, Book of Memories

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

• Silent Hill: Downpour has separate combat and puzzle difficulties

  If you’re a big fan of the horror exploration elements of Silent Hill, but turn into a flailing mess when the combat starts, Downpour has you covered with the return of dual difficulty sliders.

• Quick quotes: Akria missing from Silent Hill: Downpour's soundtrack due to "Japanese business politics"

  “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 […]

• Silent Hill: Downpour developers discuss going back to the series' psychological-horror roots

  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.

• Konami dates three Silent Hill games for Q1 2012

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

• Quick Shots: Silent Hill: Downpour, HD Collection screens get out of TGS

  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.

• Amazon posts Silent Hill: Downpour release date, cover art

  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 […]

• Quick Shots: Silent Hill: Downpour screens are dreary

  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 […]

• Quick Shots - Silent Hill: Downpour shots show more gloom and doom

  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.

• Quick Shots - Silent Hill: Downpour screens are suitably gloomy

  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.

• Vatra provides a sneak peek at its E3 demo for Silent Hill: Downpour

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

• Quick Shots - Silent Hill: Downpour is predictably creepy

  Konami has released a handful of new screens for Silent Hill: Downpour, with almost everything you need from this franchise: darkness, creepy stares, and fog.

• Quick Shots: Atmospheric Silent Hill Downpour screens released

  Konami sent over a new batch of screenshots from Silent Hill: Downpour.

• Rumor - Konami investigating a separate Downpour chapter devoted entirely to multiplayer

  Radek Marek, art director on Silent Hill: Downpour, Xbox 360 Magazine Italy that Konami’s looking to release a multiplayer title of the franchise on XBLA.

• Silent Hill: Downpour confirmed for "autumn," first shots and more details

  Konami confirmed today that Vatra’s Silent Hill: Downpour will release for PS3 and 360 this autumn, as well as releasing a good load of first shots.

• Silent Hill 8 titled Downpour, first details revealed from Game Informer

  Vatra’s Silent Hill 8 has been detailed in the latest Game Informer magazine, and according to a NeoGAF user who got to see it, the game is actually called: Silent Hill: Downpour.