Silent Hill: Bloober Team Rumors Devastate Blue Box Conspiracy Theorists

Konami and developer Bloober Team (The Medium, Layers of Fear, Blair Witch) have announced that they’ve entered into a partnership that many fans suspect will eventually result in Bloober Team developing a new Silent Hill game.

Granted, the press release doesn’t mention Silent Hill by name, but representatives from Konami and Bloober Team have strongly suggested that this agreement will eventually result in Bloober Team developing games related to notable Konami franchises. Piotr Babieno, president of Bloober Team, says that “Konami has decided to strategically cooperate with the Bloober Team,” and Konami president Hideki Hayakawa stated that he looks” forward to combining Bloober Team’s and our respective characteristics and strengths to create high-quality contents.” The press release also bizarrely includes the phrase “know-how,” but that’s a matter for another day.

For many, though, the biggest takeaway from this agreement isn’t directly related to Silent Hill, Bloober Team, or Konami, and has more to do with what this agreement means for the Blue Box/Hideo Kojima conspiracy theories that have recently taken over certain corners of the internet.

If you haven’t been following this story, I highly recommend reading this explainer that should help bring you up to speed. Failing that, you just need to know that fans recently found a surprising number of reasons to buy into the idea that Blue Box Game Studios’ upcoming indie title, Abandoned, is actually a secret Silent Hill-related project being secretly developed by none other than Hideo Kojima. While Blue Box founder Hasan Kahraman tried to shut down those conspiracy theories, that strangely only made the problem worse.