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We've heard a lot of chatter about the height of a certain horror villain recently, but an unknown Silent Hill fan wants you to remember that Pyramid Head was here first. The apparently fan-owned site Silenthill.com now shows a picture of Silent Hill 2's Pyramid Head with a height diagram for scale, confirming that he is indeed nine feet tall. The message "he was first" accompanies the image, making its intended effect quite clear.Your love for Lady Dimitrescu is loud and clear. 👒pic.twitter.com/Lj4m5pN2dJ — Resident Evil (@RE_Games) February 2, 2021This is clearly a response to the popularity of Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimitrescu, a very tall vampire lady who really wants to kill protagonist Ethan Winters. The game's art director Tomonori Takano confirmed that Lady Dimitrescu is around nine and a half feet tall when you include her hat and high heels, which triggered a flood of fan jokes and interest.While the unknown fan certainly has a point about Pyramid Head, … [Read more...] about A Silent Hill Fan Bought SilentHill.com Because Of Resident Evil Village

Silent Hill fans were overjoyed when longtime series composer Akira Yamaoka seemed to tease a new entry in the series in a recent video interview. However, the clip was later taken down by the original publisher AI Hub, who simply said that they "were asked to remove the clip" by an unspecified party.Statement: https://t.co/sMuGmf6NIT — Al Hub - الهَب (@TheHubKW) February 5, 2021In the clip, Yamaoka stated that he was working on a new project that would be announced this summer, and specifically said, "I think it's the one you're hoping to hear about." This would seem to indicate the Silent Hill series, since Yamaoka is closely associated with that franchise. News of the clip's removal prompted some to point at Konami as the party who asked AI Hub to take it down, given that the company has quashed similar rumors before.However, Konami told multiple sources (including PushSquare) that they didn't communicate with AI Hub, suggesting that perhaps … [Read more...] about Silent Hill Interview Pulled From YouTube After Composer Seemingly Teases New Entry

The canceled GoldenEye remaster for the Xbox 360 was painfully close to completion, two former developers on the project have revealed.Speaking to Ars Technica, artist Ross Bury and programmer Mark Edmonds reveal that the cancelation notice of the GoldenEye remaster for the Xbox 360 came right at the end of the development cycle. The two former Rare developers detail how there were only 90 bugs left to quash in the QA stage of the Xbox 360 remaster, which is an incredibly low number for a big release.This all follows after the GoldenEye remaster for Xbox 360 leaked online last week, revealing the remaster that we never got to play. Shortly after, a playable version of the canceled project leaked online, with the user who first uncovered it using an Xenia emulator to achieve a high frame rate.Taking a look at the leaked playable version of the GoldenEye remaster, Bury and Edmonds tell Ars Technica that a "more final" version of the build existed, and cleaned up a few issues encountered … [Read more...] about GoldenEye Xbox 360 remaster was nearly complete, according to former devs

Video game subscriptions are all the rage. Or, maybe that's not quite right. It looks like video game subscriptions will be all the rage, in the not too distant future, if things carry on in the direction they're going right now. Right now, of course, people are getting their games in more or less the same ways they always have - buying them outright, or downloading them as initially free-to-play - but right now, too, the biggest tech companies around are toying with their own, subscription-based alternatives. Google has Stadia Pro, Amazon is rolling out Luna (alongside Prime Gaming, formerly Twitch Prime), Apple has Apple Arcade, and more internally to the industry itself there are plenty more, from EA Play and Ubisoft+ to PlayStation Now and, sitting atop the monthly payment pyramid above all, Xbox Game Pass. Game Pass is, officially, big. Subscribers jumped a whopping 50 per cent, from 10 million to 15 million, between April and September 2020 - before the Series X and S … [Read more...] about Is Xbox Game Pass too good to be true?

Ubisoft has clarified a report that suggested it had renamed Rainbow Six Quarantine to Rainbow Six Parasite. Last week, Ubisoft told investors the game's name would likely change as a result of the ongoing pandemic. Then, overnight, artwork spotted by MP1st appeared to show the game with a new "Parasite" name and logo. But Ubisoft has now issued a statement saying this name merely reflects the game's internal test build - and that a new, final name would be revealed soon. "While we recently shared that we will be changing the name of Rainbow Six Quarantine, 'Parasite' is only a placeholder that our internal teams use," a Ubisoft spokesperson told Eurogamer. "Recently, we ran an internal test for the game and some of its details became public. We can confirm this is a glimpse of the upcoming game, and we will share more details, including the official name, soon.” A co-op PVE shooter in a similar style to Left 4 Dead, Ubisoft originally announced Quarantine back at E3 2019 … [Read more...] about No, Rainbow Six Quarantine hasn’t been renamed yet