A PT Remake Would’ve Been Out This Week, But….
In 2014, Konami announced that famed nutty game developer Hideo Kojima would be leaving Metal Gear aside and tackling another one of the company’s properties: Silent Hill. This was announced in offbeat Kojima fashion by disguising the reveal within a free demo for a mysterious game that went only by the initials “PT.” The weekend it appeared on PS4, everyone praised its unique take on the survival horror genre and many critics said it was one of the scariest games they’d ever played, despite being so short. Completing the demo revealed the game’s true title: “SILENT HILLS,” coming soon. Except it wasn’t coming. This was right on the eve of a sinister regime change at Konami, one that would result in some of the most worker-unfriendly and consumer-unfriendly behaviors to be seen by any company in the world this decade. Not only was Silent Hills cancelled, the PT demo was removed from the PS4 servers entirely. The copies that exist on user hard drives are all that will ever exist,