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Konami has updated its Silent Hill trademark in Japan | VGC

Multiple Silent Hill games are believed to be in development…

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Konami has updated Japanese trademarks for a handful of its properties, including Silent Hill.

As spotted by a Reddit user, updates to Silent Hill, Gradius, Frogger, The Water Margin and Tokimeki Memorial trademarks were published by the Japan Patent Office on March 15 (via Chizai-watch).

The Silent Hill trademark covers ‘game software’ and ‘headsets for virtual reality’, as well as numerous non-game related goods and services.

While these may simply be routine trademark updates or periodic renewals rather than being indicative of any new product plans, VGC reported in October that multiple Silent Hill games are in development at external studios after Konami decided to revive the classic franchise.

One of these was outsourced to a prominent Japanese developer in 2021, we were told.

And last February, The Medium developer Bloober Team said it was working on an existing horror IP from “a very famous gaming publisher”, fuelling speculation working on an existing horror IP.

The franchise’s creator recently told VGC that he thinks it would be more difficult to remake a Silent Hill game than a Resident Evil one “because the gameplay as a concept is a little older”.

Keiichiro Toyama, who left Sony last year to form Bokeh Game Studio, explained: “It’s not an action game where you can just refine the action as in Biohazard. To bring Silent Hill up to current standards or to polish up the graphics, the fans wouldn’t be satisfied.”

 

[Labadal]

They are updating most of their IP trademarks. I think there's nothing to hope for.

They updated for Suikoden and some others, too.

 

[VolticArchangel]

 

[Saucy Papi]

Whatever happened to this? It completely fell apart, right?

 

[deeptech]

I guess the fact that they let that original website expire shows how much they care truly

 

[NoLootBoxDev]

Let's be honest

 

[MudoSkills]

I look forward to the canon, VR enabled, Silent Hill sequel pachinko machine.

 

[Stitch]

 

[DeepEnigma]

Probably something, probably nothing.

You do need to update them however, otherwise you can lose them.

 

[VolticArchangel]

Whatever happened to this? It completely fell apart, right?

Dude should have had clear messaging from the first place, with all his Konami references in his teasers, but I think I won't victim blame here and the fans were a bit harsh on him when they found out it was a nothingburger.

 

[mckmas8808]

 

[Saucy Papi]

Dude should have had clear messaging from the first place, with all his Konami references in his teasers, but I think I won't victim blame here and the fans were a bit harsh on him when they found out it was a nothingburger.

Weren't we supposed to get more information on his game? I remember it was an application on PS5 and then we never saw another update again.

 

[Saucy Papi]

I guess the fact that they let that original website expire shows how much they care truly

Seriously. This still shows the troll that bought the Silent Hill website: https://silenthill.com/

 

[VolticArchangel]

Weren't we supposed to get more information on his game? I remember it was an application on PS5 and then we never saw another update again.

He kept changing his teaser dates and finally put it on indefinite hold citing some work needed to be done.

But the conspiracy theories still haven't stopped though.

 

[DeepEnigma]

He kept changing his teaser dates and finally put it on indefinite hold citing some work needed to be done.

But the conspiracy theories still haven't stopped though.

You know what they say, "the difference between most conspiracy theories and reality, is just 18 months"

 

[Arachnid]

Keiichiro Toyama, who left Sony last year to form Bokeh Game Studio, explained: “It’s not an action game where you can just refine the action as in Biohazard. To bring Silent Hill up to current standards or to polish up the graphics, the fans wouldn’t be satisfied.”

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

When this turns out just like every time the trademark has been renewed.....

 

[bitbydeath]

Weren't we supposed to get more information on his game? I remember it was an application on PS5 and then we never saw another update again.

Website was updated last week to say it’s coming soon. But we know how Soony works.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Maybe Komonie are trying to figure out how to remake triangle head guy so he's less rapey to fit in with the new times of transgender LBTQBBQXYZ. So the folks who like to mark themself as that don't kick up a fuss.

:|

 

[Saucy Papi]

Website was updated last week to say it’s coming soon. But we know how Soony works.

 

[rofif]

Whatever happened to this? It completely fell apart, right?

It's a scam. It never existed

 

[Saucy Papi]

It's a scam. It never existed

That's what I'm thinking as well... I think I read this guy has a history of doing stuff like this. Never ending vaporware.

 

[Badlucktroll]

why are they doing this to meeeeeee

 

[ElCasual]

Nothing to see here, remember that Bloger Team is making a Silent Hill. So nothing related with that Kojima nonsense.

 

[Perrott]

They are updating most of their IP trademarks. I think there's nothing to hope for.

They updated for Suikoden and some others, too.

In the case of Suikoden (and to a certain extent Silent Hill as well) it may actually be related to some of the games joining the Spartacus Tier 3 classic games lineup.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

He kept changing his teaser dates and finally put it on indefinite hold citing some work needed to be done.

But the conspiracy theories still haven't stopped though.

Please [don't] be excited. [It's too much for me to handle.]

JK Hasan you my boy

#TeamReal
#SilenceIsGolden
#MyNipplesAreForHasan

 

[adamsapple]

Nothing to see here, remember that Bloger Team is making a Silent Hill. So nothing related with that Kojima nonsense.

Renewing license doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme for future projects anyway.

 

[Badlucktroll]

Nothing to see here, remember that Bloger Team is making a Silent Hill. So nothing related with that Kojima nonsense.

Yes. i am fully expecting a weird, woke, short, low budget silent hil from booger team

 

[The Shepard]

The only way Konami will make a good silent hill game is if Konami have nothing to do with it and license it out to a competent developer/ publisher who will give the game the budget and time in development this series deserves, same with metal gear.

 

[Atanascovich]

Konami did that to bloody roar about one year ago and still in the dumpster

 

[MiguelItUp]

I want to believe, but man, I'm exhausted from all that believing that went nowhere, lmao.

 

[synchronicity]

Fine...now ****USE**** the trademark on something.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

.

 

[kikii]

Fine...now ****USE**** the trademark on something.

they just did, emailed me this 1hr ago

 

[synchronicity]

Yeah, give us another TokiMemo

I'm not ashamed to say I had to google that.

 

[Alebrije]

Konami needs more Pachinko machines

 

[Lone Wolf]

New Frogger incoming.

 

[Beechos]

So many properties and 99% of the time all thats mentioned is silent hill and mgs. Smh

 

[Dorago]

This better not be a fraggin pachinko machine like that MGS3 one from a few years ago.

 

[DeepEnigma]

This better not be a fraggin pachinko machine like that MGS3 one from a few years ago.

Nah, currently it's to sell people on nostalgia products, you know, everything but a game.

 

[Signal Rockets]

I used to think that horror games would improve past the PS3 era. They kind of got better graphically, but most of them went to pot in general, due to action being a way more interesting genre entirely.

But what really did it in for this series, was when Konami decided to split up Team Silent around 2005. They were the core of the franchise. It was very lame of Konami to outsource the series to people that just used it to mimmick what Hollywood was basically doing. For example, they forgot that Pyramid Head represented Jame Sunderland's guilt from being hostile towards his late wife, Mary. But in the movies, they just added him in because he was supposed to be frightening. As if they just seen it as a cool way to make a fast dollar. The same with Nemesis in the second RE movie.

They put asses in seats.