As you're probably aware, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead gave players the game's first driveable vehicle when it deployed the Omens of Tyranny update. It's called the FRV, and it's an off-road jeep - or at least it was until modders got their hands on it. Now, one's made the inspired decision to replace it with Axel's iconic cab from Crazy Taxi.
]]>It looks like one of next year’s Game Pass updates will be bringing us some classic bangers, particularly those of us who grew up playing shooters on the Xbox 360/PS3 generation. The latest leak is yet another thing that points to Microsoft’s continued interest in expanding the service’s line-up with classic, back-catalogue titles from the many studios it owns.
]]>Because you don't have enough new gear to grab as you battle the Illuminate, Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has just revealed the game's first ever crossover. It's a welcome one with dormant PlayStation shooter Killzone, and the first of its gear drops is available right now.
]]>After an almost two decade long wait, an Okami sequel is finally on the way, but that isn't the only thing Hideki Kamiya has in mind at his new studio.
]]>Capcom had a big night at The Game Awards this week with the return of a couple classic titles, and it sounds like they won't be the last.
]]>The 2005 original version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted is easily one of the most popular in the series, and it turns out a remake of it isn't entirely impossible.
]]>We all know that Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City, and San Andreas are PS2 classics, but apparently PlayStation made sure they were exclusive because it was afraid of Xbox.
]]>Don't worry, your friends and loved ones definitely aren't The Thing, but in the just released remaster of the PS2 classic, anyone could be.
]]>Shuhei Yoshida, former president of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios and champion of indies, has announced he's leaving the company after 31 years.
]]>To this day, players still love The Simpsons: Hit & Run, and apparently there could have been more, if it wasn't for someone who helped publish the game.
]]>“I remember going to what was probably the local video game shop or computer shop, and me and my friends saw it on the 3DO, and we were like ‘what’s this?’, we all jumped on it, and you felt badass,” current Need For Speed producer Patrick Honnoraty says. “Being able to drive it, being chased by the cops, there wasn’t an experience that was really like it at the time.”
]]>GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition's launch in 2021, three years ago, was infamously rough. From badly upscaled textures, to shoddy character models, to broken animations (and plenty more), the three games that defined modern open worlds were butchered. Now, Rockstar Games has wowed everyone by pulling off a complete 180.
]]>Sorry, Splinter Cell fans, but that long in development movie appears to be dead and buried.
]]>Hideaki Itsuno, father of the Devil May Cry series as well as other Capcom bangers like Rival Schools and Dragon's Dogma, has found a new home at LightSpeed Studios. It's here that he'll be working on new "AAA action games", and they're hiring right now!
]]>Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is still a thing that's coming out soon, with Konami and David Hayter having decided to spice up the wait a bit by casually revealing the answer to a mystery that's long been a source of rampant fan speculation. Suzetta Miñet is Jodi Benson - the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
]]>The Silent Hill 2 remake has been hiding a secret, and one that might be evidence towards a theory fans have held for years.
]]>The Magic the Gathering collab train is showing no signs of stopping, as Final Fantasy is the next stop, with some pretty good looking cards coming aboard.
]]>If you ask someone like me, who's really into the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games, why you should play the Yakuza/Like A Dragon games, fairly early on in the process there's a good chance they'll end just defaulting to grabbing you by the lapells and in their best husky Kiryu voice saying something like: 'Look, just play the damn things'.
]]>While there are plenty of FPS-heads out there who'd give an arm and a leg for Guerilla Games to put down the Horizon series it's spent the past decade getting off the ground and go back to making Killzone, it seems the studio itself is still pretty comfortable with the choice to switch to making adventures for Aloy.
]]>Yeah, we get it, Mary's sick. Whatever. You wanna know who's really sick? James Sunderland, baby. We can prove it too, thanks to a brilliant Bomb Rush Cyberfunk mod that places the survival horror legend from the Silent Hill 2 Remake in a town full of tricks and skating rather than pricks in waiting.
]]>The Silent Hill 2 remake has plenty of puzzles for you to wrack your brain over, and the Vanity Mirror puzzle and suitcase code found in Lake View Hotel are no different. This puzzle is comprised of multiple parts that will ultimately reveal the suitcase code to you, and ultimately allow you to explore even more of the haunting hotel.
]]>The Silent Hill 2 remake from Bloober Team has brought along all of the endings from the original 2001 game with it, but there are a couple of new endings for fans to seek out and unlock. These two new endings act as slight variations on the original endings for the game, and they’re definitely worth witnessing for yourself.
]]>As you explore Lake View Hotel during the Silent Hill 2 remake, there’s are some puzzles that can be easy to miss if you aren’t exploring every nook and cranny of the beautiful albeit daunting area. The Reading Room’s bookshelf puzzle is one of these puzzles, which tasks you with finding and arranging four books in a specific order.
]]>Silent Hill 2 has multiple endings for fans to figure out and discover, and the Silent Hill 2 remake is no different. All the endings from the original game are present, as well as some new endings from Bloober Team that players can look forward to finding.
]]>Following your first rendezvous with the woman that mysteriously looks like James’ wife, Maria, in Silent Hill 2, you’ll be led to South Vale’s motel, Jack’s Inn. In the reception office here, you’ll find a safe that requires a code and a note suggesting you visit one of the nearby rooms.
]]>Brookhaven Hospital in the Silent Hill 2 remake remains as terrifying as it has always been, but there are new puzzles and revamped combat for even the most experienced of fans to be pleasantly surprised by. Around this hospital, James is tasked with finding multiple bracelets that can be used to acquire a mysterious key from the Director’s Office.
]]>Discord is obviously the de facto service to use for gamers that want to talk with their friends, and as it turned out, its origin story is quite similar in nature.
]]>The Lake View Hotel in Silent Hill 2 is, frankly, a bit of respite after the terror of Toluca Prison and the Labyrinth. Of course, monstrosities still lurk here, but there’s no denying that the place is beautiful and somewhat serene in comparison to what you will have just faced. The Music Box puzzle here, and the tune it eventually plays, certainly add to that feeling.
]]>After fleeing the horrors of Brookhaven Hospital in the Silent Hill 2 remake, you’ll find yourself back in South Vale and eventually, at the Silent Hill Historical Society. After checking out all of the relics and paintings this building possesses, you’ll wind up going down a lengthy staircase and into a room full of bugs.
]]>As you explore Brookhaven Hospital in the Silent Hill 2 remake, you will be tasked with finding three different bracelets around the place before eventually solving the puzzle that is the Director’s Office safe code. This will require you to brush up on your knowledge of alchemical symbols, of all things.
]]>As you explore Brookhaven Hospital in Silent Hill 2, which is renowned as one of the biggest and most important locations in the game, you’ll eventually reach the X-Ray Viewer puzzle on the third floor. This particular puzzle might not seem like much at first, but solving it is how you’ll get your hands on the D1 door code and be able to progress.
]]>Silent Hill 2 has a few endings for players to unlock, and one of the more fun, memorable endings that has been brought over from the original game is the Dog ending. This ending sees James find out that the terror he’s been facing has actually been the sick machinations of Mira the Dog, a sole Shiba Inu.
]]>One of the more terrifying areas of the Silent Hill 2 remake, Toluca Prison, gets scarier and scarier as you dive deeper into it. As you wrap up your time in the area, you’ll be expected to quite literally dive into the abyss as you solve the final puzzle here: the Toluca Prison Hangman puzzle.
]]>The Silent Hill 2 remake has a few different endings for eager players to unlock, and a few of these are exclusive to New Game Plus. One such ending that requires keen explorers to track down four specific items is the Rebirth ending, which sees James planning to engage in some sort of death-defying ritual.
]]>Silent Hill 2’s Brookhaven Hospital is a huge portion of the game packed with threats such as Bubble Head Nurses, Mannequins, and an array of locked doors and puzzling corridors. There are a few things you need to do here before moving on, and one of those things is finding the Nurse’s Station Keypad code.
]]>One of Silent Hill 2’s most iconic and memorable puzzles involves the Grandfather Clock and a poem about three people called Henry, Mildred, and Scott. These three people actually represent different hands of the Clock puzzle in Blue Creek Apartments, and once you get your hands on those, you’ll need to use the poem to work out their positions.
]]>Your first rendezvous with the Otherworld in the Silent Hill 2 remake is the Blue Creek Apartments, and here, you’ll have your work cut out for you as you strive to solve the iconic Grandfather Clock puzzle brought over from the original game. One portion of this involves figuring out the eerie Moth Room puzzle, though.
]]>Silent Hill 2 is renowned for its puzzles, and one of the first that you come across in East South Vale is the broken Jukebox in Neely’s Bar. Notes about an upset man and his broken record can be found scattered across the area, and if you pay attention to the Memo’s you have no doubt been collecting, you’ll be led on a bit of a wild goose chase trying to find different components needed to fix the thing.
]]>We’re officially on the last day of Prime Big Deal Days, and finally, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1 has dropped to the price it should’ve been at launch—$19. That’s over 50% off its original lsit price. Yeah, it’s taken this long to reach the price it actually deserves, but better late than never, right?
]]>I'm not exactly sure what Sega's gameplan here is, but the developer has another live-action adaptation in the works, this time about Shinobi.
]]>As you explore East South Vale in the Silent Hill 2 remake, you will find that the Grand Market is locked and inaccessible via its main entrance. If you make your way around the back of the building, however, you’ll find the Grand Market Keypad with no code in sight.
]]>As you wander around the Wood Side Apartments in the Silent Hill 2 remake, it won’t be too long before you find yourself trapped in the first dark room of many: Room 206. This room features a safe that requires a combination code to unlock, and you’ll need to unlock it if you wish to make your way out of this room.
]]>One of the first and most memorable puzzles of the Silent Hill 2 remake is the Coin Cabinet found in the Reception Office of Wood Side Apartments. While you can’t do much here to begin with, you will be able to collect three different coins from around the apartments that will aid you with solving the Coin Cabinet puzzle.
]]>As if there isn’t enough to be done in Brookhaven Hospital of the Silent Hill 2 remake as it is, you’ll also have some trivia to wrack your brain over as you venture into the basement of the Otherworld Hospital. Now, I hope you’ve been paying close attention to the various memos and other interactable items in the game, as that’s where your answers to the Trick or Treat elevator quiz will lie.
]]>If you're worried about whether the Silent Hill 2 remake might affect how you feel about the PS2 classic, the original director has this to say: don't be.
]]>The ranch sign in the original Silent Hill 2 is iconic for its tonally off use of Comic Sans, but the remake changed it - apart from where it didn't.
]]>Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 invites you into the town of Silent Hill all over again, twenty years later. A troubled James Sunderland is searching for his deceased wife, with the hope that she might be out there — alive — after receiving a letter from her encouraging him to come here. Now, anyone in their right mind would be questioning how James’ deceased wife could write a letter from beyond the grave, but James is clearly not in his right mind.
]]>Silent Hill 2 is renowned for a lot of reasons, and its multiple endings and their various ending conditions are one of those reasons. Back in 2001, it took a good while for people to actually figure out the math behind each ending, but it looks as though Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 endings are a little easier to crack this time around.
]]>You’re not done with Lake View Hotel in Silent Hill 2 just yet, and depending on how you feel about James’ journey so far, you may be overjoyed - or filled with dread - to hear this. While the Otherworld Hotel is dark and scary, it’s fortunately nothing compared to what you will have faced in the Labyrinth, so sit back and enjoy what’s to come.
]]>James Sunderland has been on quite the journey so far in Silent Hill 2, but we’re finally nearing a close. That said, we still have a few more things to do before James finally reaches some conclusion about all of the goings-on in Silent Hill, and we’ll be wrapping these up at the Lake View Hotel.
]]>After having fled the nightmarish Brookhaven Hospital in Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2, you’ll find that you’re back in South Vale again. This time, however, nighttime has come around and the place is much darker than before. There are new sinkholes blocking your path and plenty of enemies for you to try and avoid, too.
]]>If you thought that Brookhaven Hospital in Silent Hill 2 was terrifying, you’re going to have your work cut out for you when it comes to exploring the Otherworld Hospital. Dilapidated, rusting, and full of foes, we’ll have a few more puzzles to solve here while not becoming food for Red Pyramid Thing.
]]>After having made your way through the likes of Rosewater Park, Moonlight Grove, and the Reverse Theater in Silent Hill 2, you will find yourself at the intimidatingly large Brookhaven Hospital in pursuit of Laura. If Silent Hill 2 hasn’t managed to scare you already, your time in Brookhaven Hospital and beyond will definitely manage to do so.
]]>You’ll have now made it through the Wood Side and Blue Creek Apartments in Silent Hill 2, and had your first meeting with the legendary Red Pyramid Thing, also known as Pyramid Head. Up next, you’ll be making your way through the scenic Rosewater Park and West South Vale, where there’s more puzzles to solve and secrets to unveil.
]]>At this point in Silent Hill 2, you will have explored the foggy East South Vale and made your way through the Wood Side Apartments, where you’ll have fended off Mannequins and more while finding all manner of keys and coins. The good and bad news is that there’s more of that to come, so keep your Wooden Plank close and prepare for more puzzles.
]]>You’ve ventured through East South Vale so far in Silent Hill 2, and had your first brush with danger in the form of Lying Figures - lots of them. Though, your journey through Silent Hill to seek out answers for James has only just begun. Before things start to get really perilous, we’ve the Wood Side Apartments to explore.
]]>James’ journey in Silent Hill 2 begins at the Observation Deck, where he eventually meanders into the foggy streets of South Vale, only to slowly uncover the bizarre goings-on in the town. James isn’t fazed by any of the strange occurrences or creatures he runs into though, with the only thing on his mind being his wife, Mary.
]]>The original Silent Hill 2 hid away many secrets in New Game Plus for the most keen-eyed of fans to find, and Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 is no different in that sense. Once you finally wrap up your first run of the game and conclude James’ journey, you’ll be able to do it all over again in New Game Plus to find new items, new endings, and more.
]]>If you thought Silent Hill 2’s Toluca Prison was bad, you’ve got your work cut out for you when it comes to the Labyrinth. This place doesn’t have a map to begin with. It’s one that James eventually, somehow, has to sketch up for himself, meaning it’s easy to get lost in the maze of hallways that the area consists of.
]]>After dealing with the horrifying Brookhaven Hospital and making your way to Silent Hill 2’s Historical Society, you’ll soon find yourself in Toluca Prison. This place is very dark and honestly, one of the more terrifying portions of the game, so brace yourself for what’s to come.
]]>“In my restless dreams, I see that town… Silent Hill. You promised you’d take me there again someday,” and Bloober Team has finally done just that, with exceptional quality and faithfulness to the source material. Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 will never replace the original game and the survival horror zeitgeist it was a part of back in 2001, but the developer has ensured that nobody — be it veterans or newcomers — will forget about the eponymous series with its beautiful and ambitious remake of Silent Hill 2 and it’s story anytime soon.
]]>Silent Hill is going to be on most horror fan's brains for the next month, obviously because of the fact the hotly anticipated remake of the second game in the series is due out in a week's time. I can't blame anyone, I'll be thinking about it too, I love Silent Hill 2 - it's a classic for good reason, and I'm curious to see what the wider consensus will be of its remake. Will people reflect on the original and think "we didn't know how good we had it"? Maybe people will say Silent Hill 2 "was always bad, actually." Me, though, I'll be over here thinking, "OK, can we stop talking about 2 now and start talking about Silent Hill 4: The Room?"
]]>A new preview trailer for Like a Dragon: Yakuza is here, and it shows off much more Majima tongue than I expected.
]]>Blizzard is reportedly taking another swing at developing a StarCraft shooter, this time with former FarCry producer and director Dan Hay at the helm.
]]>After all these years of waiting, the game you've all been eagerly anticipating is here: Final Fantasy Versus 13. It's been stuck in development hell for so long now, everyone thought it was never going to be released, but it's very real, and...wait, hang on, I think I'm getting a bit mixed up here.
]]>The PC version of God of War Ragnarok has officially arrived on PC. The game launched Thursday, September 19 on Steam, as well as the Epic Games Store. Ragnarok is the latest Sony first-party PlayStation title to make it to PC, but it doesn’t look like the audience showed up for this one.
]]>If you're a Silent Hill 2 fan, but you've moved onto Xbox since the PS2 days, you're going to have to wait a whole year before it releases on the PS5 rival.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>As part of Netflix's Geeked Week, the streaming giant has released a new trailer for the upcoming Devil May Cry anime, as well as an April 2025 release date.
]]>A new year, a new list of songs that you'll listen to as you experiece the highs and lows of doing a virtual football. EA Sports FC 25's soundtrack has been revealed, with both yer das, not quite yet yer das and non-yer das all currently busy offering their two cents as to whether it features enough of what they consider indie bangers.
]]>Like many children, I grew up playing whatever video games I could get my hands on, my early choices dictated largely by parental preference and what the owner of the sole computer shop in my rural hometown chose to stock. The original Sims was the first game I ever successfully lobbied to own: actively seeking it out — and my subsequent fascination upon actually getting to play it — was, with hindsight, a fairly significant early expression of my emerging personality as a 10-year-old. As you can probably imagine, therefore, four years and countless mercifully-untracked in-game hours later, I was about as hype for The Sims' first-ever sequel as a geeky 14-year-old can get. Read: extremely. And because life is nice sometimes, I was destined not to be disappointed.
]]>Sometimes you just can’t predict whether a game will be the next big thing, so it’s not worth kicking yourself if you get that call wrong. Or at least that seems to be the philosophy of Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who says that he doesn’t regret not making the original Destiny and Guitar Hero platform exclusives, even if those calls look a bit questionable in hindsight.
]]>Silent Hill 2 is a bit tricky to play these days, but the PC version's fan-made Enhanced Edition is finally complete.
]]>Hideaki Itsuno, director of numerous titles like the Devil May Cry series and Dragon's Dogma, is leaving Capcom after 30 years at the developer.
]]>Xbox’s Summer Games Fest showcase was a banger that brought back the classic E3 vibes - but of all the games featured in the broadcast, one new title caught my eye - the slick-looking role-playing game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
]]>Much like Capcom starting its Resident Evil remakes with the second game, Konami has done the same with Silent Hill - but the question is, why?
]]>Konami is back in a big way lately, and a lot of the world's newly recharged notice of the Japanese publisher comes down to the upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. My time with Konami's other modern trilpe-A title, Silent Hill 2, was a hit, and while my time with MGS: Delta was short but sweet, it also did not disappoint.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>Look, we know, it's a terrible headline. Anyway, Mafia: The Old Country has just been announced right at the end of Gamescom Opening Night Live 2024, and it's set to release in 2025.
]]>The upcoming remake of Silent Hill 2 isn’t all that far away, with its release date set for October 8. As such, previews have been well underway as the game goes through the final stages of development and receives a final layer of polish.
]]>The upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, developed by Bloober Team, is a game that I haven’t been particularly hopeful about. Ever since the initial excitement of Konami’s decision to revive its cult classic horror IP faded, and more and more details surrounding it emerged, my excitement for this long-awaited resurrection turned into a feeling of dread.
]]>Apparently the bits of litter you can find blowing down streets and being pulled along by cars in GTA 3 were a bit of a controversial topic back in the day. Like, to the point where the developer that added these rogue newspapers and leaves to Liberty City ended up having to take them out of GTA San Andreas after losing a detritus debate within the Rockstar team.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>A financial report from Remedy Games released this morning has confirmed that the Max Payne remake - a modern combination of Max Payne 1 and 2 - is in "full production". This report reveals that the game entered this state within the quarter spanning April - June 2024.
]]>There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247 paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for more info. Doing so helps ensure that we can keep making the show! But don't worry if that's not for you, the main show will always be free.
]]>That's right Half-Life fans, you've got a new reason to believe that the long-awaited third entry is definitely, for sure this time, absolutely happening.
]]>The Sephiroth boss fight in the first Kingdom Hearts is still one of the series' toughest, and it turns out his voice actor hasn't managed to beat it.
]]>You might be looking at Star Wars Outlaws as your next stop in a galaxy far, far away, but Star Wars: Bounty Hunter's Aspyr-developed remaster is a more than welcome return to the PS2/GC-era Star Wars underworld.
]]>Former NBA Street developers from EA have broken off from the video game giant to form their own studio and create a spiritual successor to the beloved basketball game. The game, titled The Run: Got Next, will be developed at the brand-new Play by Play Studios. The game itself is set to release in 2025 for Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
]]>The hype train for GTA 6 is already well and truly chugging along at this point. However, if you're hoping it'll offer an experience that's "wildly different" to GTA 5 in terms of being a huge step forward from a technical standpoint, a long-time Rockstar developer reckons you might want to keep your expectations in check a bit.
]]>Games industry veteran Hideki Kamiya has shared that he still wants to make sequels to PS2 classics Okami and Viewtiful Joe.
]]>Devil May Cry already had an anime adaptation back in 2007, but Netflix is giving it another go with Adi Shankar (Castlevania) as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. While we've been eagerly waiting for news on it for months now, fans continue to uncover new details in the last piece of footage released in late 2023.
]]>Bioware has confirmed that it did indeed do a bit of a distracted boyfriend meme when it came to the idea of adding multiplayer elements to the game that's now known as Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but recovered after deciding it wanted to stick to its established strengths.
]]>Sega is still yet to show off anything of its Crazy Taxi reboot, but it will apparently be open-world and massively multiplayer.
]]>While we eagerly await Star Wars Outlaws, Lucasfilm Games and Aspyr are taking us back to an earlier version of the galaxy far, far away's criminal underworld with a remaster of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, starring Jango Fett.
]]>The Thing video game adaptation was an ambitious but flawed title, so Nightdive is hoping to help realise what it could have been.
]]>As promised, Delta Force: Hawk Ops dropped a new trailer during Summer Game Fest’s opening showcase. This one was teased a couple of weeks ago, if you’ve been keeping up, so we were happy to see it on the show.
]]>Did you know Delta Force: Black Hawk Down was big in China? I certainly didn't. But it's in the internet cafes of the 2000's that the embers of a new tactical shooter were first lit. It was here, that the founder of Tencent's Team Jade fell in love with one of gaming's earliest tactical shooters. Fast forward to NovaLogic's selling of the IP to THQ in 2016 and the wave of Tencent's expansion into the gaming sphere and voilah! Delta Force is back.
]]>Update: After rumours and teases circuated about a remaster of The Thing by Nightdive Studios, an official reveal trailer has been officially revealed at IGN Live. You can watch the trailer yourself down below.
]]>Today’s PlayStation State of Play (May 30, 2024) has been a rather fruitful one, and for those who are anything like me - a complete nut for anything and everything Silent Hill - there’s good (or bad) news. Konami’s attempt at a grand Silent Hill reboot is continuing to come to fruition, with the Silent Hill 2 remake finally being given a release date of October 8, with it releasing on PS5.
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