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Save up to 50% on the remake.

Konami announces that Silent Hill 2, the 2024 remake of the 2001 horror classic, is now available on Xbox Series X|S. As this Xbox release comes long after the PlayStation and PC release, the game has a launch discount for up to 50% off the regular price.

For those looking for even more Silent Hill, Konami is also offering a bundle that combines Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill f. This bundle is also on sale for 30% off of its regular price....

The official launch trailer is also now available.

If you plunked down the extra cash for the Deluxe version of Cronos: The New Dawn, you can play the game right now ahead of its "official" release on September 5th. The extra $10 cost brings that total to just $69.99, at least on Steam, which is the going base rate for most games these days anyway. The regular version, releasing in two days, is just $59.99 (again, at least through Steam).

Cronos: The New Dawn...

Plus, pre-orders are now live.

What's this? Not me having to retype this entire news post because he accidentally refreshed the tab and the auto-restore didn't save the draft. Anyway, Cronos: The New Dawn from Bloober Team has a new story trailer out today. The trailer gives some details about the game's story, which is a good thing for a story trailer to include.

Pre-orders for the survival horror game are also now live. You can pre-order the game through Steam and...

A fresh look at Bloober's new IP.

Bloober Team is offering yet another extended gameplay video for their upcoming sci-fi horror title, Cronos: The New Dawn. This new 10-minute video offers a deep dive into the game's combat, enemies, and survival mechanics. It also introduces two of the game's "hauntingly distinct environments: Islands in The Mist and The Hospital."

Islands in The Mist is a liminal space where visibility is limited. Meanwhile, The Hospital...

The one they're making between Silent Hill remakes.

Bloober Team shared a new gameplay trailer for Cronos: The New Dawn late last week. This is the studio's upcoming horror-action title set in a post-apocalyptic world. This new trailer shines a light on the game's "brutal combat" as well the unique "Merge" mechanic that "allows the horrifying creatures known as Oprhans to absorb the bodies of their fallen brethren." This allows the creatures to evolve...

Well, they did a damn good job with the Silent Hill 2 remake.

A rather quiet surprise announcement was made today by Bloober Team and Konami. The two studios are once again teaming up for another remake, this time it's for the original Silent Hill.

The announcement came during Konami's latest Press Start broadcast. All that was shown was a 30-second long announcement video that included the title, the studios involved, and a note that it was in development. The video...

Bloober tries to keep the momentum going from the Silent Hill 2 remake.

Bloober Team first shared their announcement of a new IP, Cronos: The New Dawn, in October 2024. Cronos: The New Dawn is set to be the first original survival horror game from Bloober Team. So far, the studio has primarily focused on straight forward horror experiences, with the remake of Silent Hill 2 being their first foray into the survival horror genre.

This new gameplay video showcases what...

A number of technical improvements have been included in this first update.

Bloober Team and Konami just released their first major update for the recently released Silent Hill 2 remake. This update, especially for those on PC, aims to improve performance while also including a heaping helping of gameplay fixes and bug fixes.

For PC specifically, this update makes improvements to both Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR. Some vague performance improvements were also made for Steam...

Bloober's first original IP in the survival horror genre.

Bloober Team, hot on the heels of their successful launch of the Silent Hill 2 remake, just announced their first ever survival horror game. Cronos: The New Dawn is an upcoming sci-fi survival horror title, which is aiming for a 2025 release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.

In Cronos, you take on the role of a Traveler, "an agent of the enigmatic Collective with a mission to extract selected...

The horror mashup is now released.

Bloober Team and Anshar Studios just released Layers of Fear today for PC, "Apple Silicon Mac", PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. They say that this is one of the first horror games built from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5. They're also saying that this is the definitive way to experience the Layers of Fear games, be you a new player or someone that has played the previous games already.

What is Layers of Fear? Well,...

There will be some discounts for owners of the previous games.

Layers of Fear (2023) from Bloober Team and Anshar Studios, will be priced starting at $29.99 (USD). There's also a Deluxe Edition for $34.99. Those that own Layers of Fear (2016) and/or Layers of Fear 2 will get an extra 30% discount. This discount period runs from launch day on June 15 through to June 29, 2023 and works through Steam.

The $30 version of the game includes just the game and nothing more. The...

A first look at the new gameplay mechanics and visual improvements.

Bloober Team released the first gameplay video for their upcoming horror title, Layers of Fear. This reveal clocks in at a bit over 11 minutes and shows some of the new gameplay mechanics present in this release. It also shows off how this Unreal Engine 5 brings some graphical improvements compared to the original releases of the series.

Some of these graphical improvements include the addition of ray...

Yes, they changed the title of the game.

Bloober released a new teaser trailer this weekend during IGN Fanfest for Layers of Fear. This is the game that was previously known as Layers of Fears. It can now either be called Layers of Fear or Layers of Fear (2023), which is not to be confused with Layers of Fear not from 2023 but rather from 2016. This is now the third game in the Layers of Fear series, with the second game being called the rather distinct Layers of Fear: Inheritance....

"I get the sense that they take their work very seriously, and that they believe videogames to be art even more than we thought."

Whether we wanted it to or not, a remake of Silent Hill 2 is coming from Bloober Team. The studio known for games like Layers of Fear, The Medium, and Observer have been working on this Silent Hill 2 remake for quite some time now. They, alongside Konami, are sprucing up the classic horror title for an all new generation.

IGN recently...

Bloober is working on yet another horror game.

Between working on the Silent Hill 2 remake and a new Layers of Fear game, Bloober Team should have their plates rather full. Apparently not since it was just announced that Private Division just entered into a publishing agreement with Bloober to create a new survival horror game.

Bloober Team is known for making a number of different horror games, from the more psychological horror in Layers of Fear and The Medium to Ob...