Silent Hill... A Great Place To Hang With Friends

Radek Marek, art director on Silent Hill: Downpour, has told italian xbox magazine that Downpour will not have multiplayer, however he worked in mention of a possible multiplayer game in the future. He stated that Konami are looking into making a seperate game for multiplayer, and while his studio (Vatra Games) doesn't have much info on it, but "that most players have to survive in the town of Silent Hill" if it goes ahead. He also mentioned it would be coming to the Xbox Live Arcade.

[UPDATE] This has now been cleared up and confirmed as false. Apparently something was lost in translation between Marek and the interviewer as there is definitely no XBLA game coming at all.

Hudson Loses Control

Hudson Entertainment, creators of such gems as Bomberman, will be undergoing some changes as of April 1st. Konami, who currently owns a majority 54% share of Hudson, will be doing a complete takeover of the company.Current Hudson CEO Michihiro Ishizuka is apparently set to step down on March 31st, making way for Konami's Kazuhiko Uehara to take over. This doesn't actually seem like a completely bad thing, as it will allow Konami a more serious role in the creation of new titles in the Hudson franchises and allow the talented developers at Hudson to help out more on Konami projects. So the biggest change you may see will be in name form, as Konami is considering changing the studio's name as part of the acquisition.

Slowly Rising

What takes longer to complete than a Metal Gear Solid Game? The development of a Metal Gear Solid game apparently. Rumour has it that the latest Metal Gear Solid title, Rising, will be pushed back to a release date in 2012. If the rumour is true then you can still look forward to slicing enemy bodies up into tiny little chunks... you'll just have to look far onto the horizon.

Bloody Sequel

When the next and final sequel to the Saw movie franchise hits the cinemas around Halloween, you should also be able to get a bit more of a Saw fix, because that seems to also be the release date for Saw 2: Flesh & Blood. With that being said, the game has been pencilled in for an October 19th release in America, but there was a considerable wait between the American and Australian release of the first Saw game, and even then that's presuming Konami decides it's worth the money to try to put it past the ratings board and release it here. Saw: The Game got mixed review from media, but i've generally found that gamers who played it generally liked it (although arguably the only people who bought it were already fans of the movies).