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Konami, the publisher of the critically-acclaimed Silent Hill franchise, has today announced a strategic co-operation agreement with Bloober Team, developer of The Medium. Together the pair will work on "games from existing and new IPs." Many believe that at least one of the joint projects volition be a new Silent Hill game.

Bloober Team president Piotr Babieno explained that this partnership is the culmination of several years of the developer's piece of work. He added that Bloober Team has been providing "unique entertainment content and ways to enjoy it through the employ of information technology" for years. At present, the team has the opportunity to combine this experience with one of the largest leaders in the industry.

The official announcement doesn't specifically mention which IPs the pair volition be working on together. Yet, it lists all of Konami's current franchises; eFootball PES, Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Castlevania, Contra, and the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Carte Game serial, indicating that Bloober Team could cease upwardly working on whatsoever of them.

VGC alleges that those shut to Bloober Team sympathize that 1 of the programmer'due south projects is function of the Silent Loma IP. Bloober Team added to this theory when information technology announced that it was working on an established horror series with a very famous game publisher. According to PC Gamer, some other project the developer is working on is a sequel to The Observer.

However, it's too known that Konami already has at least one programmer engaged in a new Silent Loma project.

Interestingly, industry insiders merits that Konami also approached Supermassive Games, programmer of The Dark Pictures Anthology titles, about working on Silent Hill. Nevertheless, the pitch the developer came up with wasn't accepted, though the framework for it evidently informed the project that Bloober Team is now working on.

With the divergence of Hideo Kojima, Konami took more control over the IPs under its chugalug. However, that only proved to produce games like Metal Gear Survive and Contre: Rogue Corps, neither of which were what the established fan bases for those franchises were afterwards. This could be why the publisher is now outsourcing its IPs to carefully selected and proven developers in the correct infinite. Bloober Team proved itself with The Medium, though co-ordinate to sources, the pair have been working together since before that game launched.