Konami has revealed that a new Silent Hill game is currently in development for ‘next-gen consoles,’ so get your PS3 and Xbox 360 ready for more horror-filled third-person action.

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We have drawn the winners in our Saints Row 2 and Silent Hill: Homecoming competitions, peak below to see if you got lucky this time.

Congratulations to Fayyaad Hendricks for winning the Saints Row 2 hamper and Jonathan Wong for winning the Silent Hill: Homecoming hamper. Well done guys and thanks again to Ster-Kinekor for sponsoring the great prizes!

If you didn’t win this time, head over to our competitions page because we have some awesome new prizes up for grabs!

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It’s your last chance to enter our Saints Row 2 and Silent Hill: Homecoming competitions.

If you are a Saints Row 2 fan, don’t miss the opportunity to win a great hamper containing a Saints Row 2 T-shirt, cap and bandana.

We also have two Silent Hill: Homecoming hampers up for grabs, one with a PS3 copy of the game, T-shirt and lanyard and another with an Xbox 360 copy of the game, T-shirt and lanyard.

The competitions close on the 14th of April so get your entries in today! Head over to our Saints Row 2 and Silent Hill: Homecoming competition pages for more details.

Silent Hill: Homecoming is a strange game. Not because of the gross-out enemy designs or the peculiar environments and characters you’ll meet, or the oppressive fog that invites you to explore and simultaneously warns you to not take a single step further. It’s not strange because of the relentlessly creepy mood set by the intense and haunting music and sound effects or even the plodding, convoluted story.

No, Silent Hill: Homecoming is strange because it seems at odds with itself, trying to deliver an atmospheric, deliberate horror experience while also trying to provide an up-to-date action game, with a combat system that, for the most part, works hand-in-hand with the pace of the game, but still manages to frustrate and appear archaic in a world where survival-horror has successfully transitioned into the realms of action-orientated horror. Fans of the genre may be left cold as the game tries to invite newcomers by making the experience slightly more accessible, but muddies that experience along the way, failing to approach anything that resembles the kind of reinvention and reinvigoration that a game such as Resident Evil has achieved.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Silent Hill: Homecoming for the PS3.

Silent: Hill Homecoming promises to “bring the fear and terror of Silent Hill alive like never before.”

Now you can bring the fear into your own living room with El33tonline’s Silent Hill: Homecoming competition. The winner will walk away with a PS3 copy of the game, T-shirt and lanyard, kindly sponsored by Ster-Kinekor.

To enter, head over to our Silent Hill competition page, answer an easy question and your name will go into the draw.

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Konami has announced the official title of its first Silent Hill game for the PS3 and Xbox 360. The game will be titled Silent Hill: Homecoming and will be released across Europe at the end of September 2008.

Silent Hill: Homecoming will be the sixth installment of the series. The game introduces a new protagonist and follows Alex Shepherd as he returns to his hometown of Sheperd’s Glen to investigate his brother’s disappearance. In order to find his brother, Alex must face horrors from his hometown to Silent Hill.

Homecoming will be Silent Hill’s debut on next-generation consoles and will feature new graphics that promise to “bring the fear and terror of Silent Hill alive like never before.” Players can also look forward to a new combat system which Alex must use to launch attacks and counter-attacks on the misshapen denizens of Silent Hill.

Alex will discover various weapons to help him battle the monsters but must also solve deadly puzzles to uncover Silent Hill’s secrets. The game also features a new soundtrack by acclaimed series composer Akira Yamaoka.