Maisie Williams? In Pacific Rim 2? I’m fucking sold. Though, I have to admit. I wonder if Del Toro is stoking the flames of a flick we’re never going to see. And if he’s going to do that, truthfully, I would prefer those flames be directed towards Hellboy 3.

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Couple days ago it was announced that Pacific Rim 2 has been halted indefinitely. Just…Just don’t tell creator Del Toro this, because that dude still says the movie is happening.

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From the Ashes of Suck rises a potentially awesome Phoenix of Collaboration! Shitty figurative language! Wee! Come and stop me! Or! Focus instead on this rather awesome little development. Konami may have strangled Silent Hills into oblivion, but that disgusting act of malice may not have ended a potential Del Toro/Kojima project.

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I really dug the two Hellboy movies. And since I did, I’m one of those dickhead fans that every once in a while waxes melancholic that the trilogy has never been given its proper conclusion. So when Ron Perlman says he wants to finish the fucking trilogy, I’m like. Let’s do this, brother.

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[Update: Konami has confirmed Silent Hills is dead.] It seemed inevitable, but still we dreamed it not so. With Kojima and Konami breaking up oddly, publicly, messily, it seems that Metal Gear’s Master’s collab with Pacific Rim Guy is dead. Fucking bummer.

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This shit should be called PTSD.

Trauma describes rather accurately the state that I was in after an evening with P.T. – an “interactive teaser” released into the wild via the PSN yesterday. I found myself unable to play this sample-sized preamble to a new Silent Hill project for more than 30 seconds at a time before escaping to the serenity of the PS4 home screen with a tap of a button. I marvelled at how we didn’t really have that escape method when playing a horror game back in the day.

And by back in the day, I’m referring to my night with Silent Hill 3, and a certain, terrifying scene in a dilapidated hospital room where some nightmare clone stepped out of the mirror and proceeded to chase me, and my only reaction was to turn my PS2 off and flee my pitch black living room. It was a flight-or-fight response, and it was to a video game.

I think I experienced a mild version of that at least five times over the course of one hour  last night. Even after my boyfriend joined me on the couch, with the lights on in the neighbouring kitchen. Even then, this experimental, bite-sized entry into horror gaming got me. It got me good.

More than just the delicious horror this visits on gamers, it’s the insidious marketing methodology behind this release, as well as the ensuing conversations online for the past 24 hours that have grabbed me. This little teaser wormed its way into the online gaming consciousness, and I’m fascinated by it.

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Apparently there’s a “playable teaser” (that I’m downloading now) on PSN that’s actually a fucking covert reveal for a new Silent Hill game. Starring That Guy (Norman Reedus) from Walking Dead. Leave it to Del Toro and Kojima to fuck everyone’s brain-pieces like this. Pretty awesome.

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Lest you forget, Del Toro has been tasked with bringing Justice League Dark to the silver screen. It’s easy to forget about it though, since there’s been no goddamn details about the flick. However the Guy Behind Pacific Rim recently opened up in an interview, and threw some chicken feed at us inquisitive fan-folk. Let us nibble slowly on these morsels, for we know not how long they must last.

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I really enjoyed Pacific Rim. I never thought the movie would receive a genuine sequel, instead having a new installment banished to Endless Wind Cycle of Speculation. Well – I’m wrong again

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