Konami has issued a statement that Silent Hills has been officially cancelled.

The statement says that "Konami is committed to new Silent Hill titles, however the embryonic ‘Silent Hills’ project developed with Guillermo del Toro and featuring the likeness of Norman Reedus will not be continued".Speculation began after Kojima's future at Konami came into question, and the company announced that P.T. would be removed from the PlayStation Store There was also a story here on IGN yesterday where Guillermo Del Toro said that his collaboration with Hideo Kojima on Silent Hills was "not gonna happen"

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