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Silent Hill: Townfall makes some big changes from the usual Silent Hill experience that fans have come to expect, not only with its Scottish setting, but also with its first-person perspective. While this gameplay style is unusual for Silent Hill (we still remember you, PT), it turns out there was really no debate about whether…

Glasgow-based developer Screen Burn has been around for over a decade, and Silent Hill: Townfall is the studio’s highest-profile game to date. The studio has produced a few cult-classics over the years like Stories Untold and Observation, but with its Silent Hill spin-off, the team has described being handed the keys to Konami’s premier survival-horror…

One way to gauge the success of a game is by looking at how much talk it generates after launch, and in the case of Silent Hill Townfall, game director Jon McKellan has an ambitious goal for the Scottish psychological-horror. According to McKellan, the team at Screen Burn is looking to give players just the…

Over the past few years, we’ve seen a major revival of the Silent Hill franchise, with 2024’s Silent Hill 2 remake offering a spectacular reimagining of one of the series’ most beloved entries while titles like Silent Hill f and Townfall propel the series forward and seek to redefine what a Silent Hill game can…

Those itching to take Crazy Taxi: World Tour for a test drive can now sign up for their chance, as developer Sega has announced a multiplayer closed network test. Crazy Taxi: World Tour’s closed network test will run September 11-13 in the US. Those interested will need to sign up on the game’s website by…

Grand Theft Auto Online players in Australia are no longer able to gamble in the game’s Diamond Casino, after Rockstar Games appears to have blocked access in the wake of the Australian government’s crackdown on online gambling. Australian players began to report the change on Reddit (via Vice), as they were no longer able to…

Remasters are good business for video game companies, but don’t expect to see BioWare’s Dragon Age games getting the same treatment in the future–or possibly, ever. That’s according to Dragon Age series producer Mark Darrah, who says that the original trilogy of games likely won’t be remastered due to BioWare losing too much institutional knowledge.…

We’re just over halfway through the year, but it’s one that has already been incredibly fruitful for Capcom thanks to its two marquee releases in 2026. Resident Evil Requiem, the ninth installment in the enduring series, has been both a critical and commercial success, with this latest quarter being no different. Requiem has sold over…

As CD Projekt Red continues working on Cyberpunk 2, the company could have a spin-off title to tide over fans in the meantime. MP1st reports that a former WayForward employee’s portfolio revealed information on a game project codenamed Gemini that relates to the Netflix series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. The status of the Cyberpunk spin-off game at…

This week got off to a rocky start for Xbox, as a server outage saw players across the world unable to sign in, make purchases, or access their games for several hours. Those issues have since been fixed, and in a candid post online, Xbox Chief Technology Officer Scott Van Vliet spoke about what exactly…