Summer time Sport Fest organizer Geoff Keighley has introduced that one of many video games being showcased throughout this Friday’s presentation will likely be Bokeh Sport Studio’s Slitterhead, which is the brainchild of Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama.
In a submit on X (previously Twitter), Keighley says that the “gameplay world premiere” of Slitterhead will likely be proven through the Summer time Sport Fest opening presentation, which will likely be taking place at 5pm Jap on Friday.
Slitterhead was first unveiled again in 2021 as a part of that yr’s Sport Awards ceremony. A teaser trailer for the sport was proven, revealing its artwork route and a few of its creature design (though, crucially, no gameplay was demonstrated).
The sport was truly teased sooner than that yr’s Sport Awards, although. It is potential to see some idea artwork for what would ultimately turn into Slitterhead in a video asserting the inspiration of Bokeh Sport Studio from again in late 2020.
After the Sport Awards reveal, Bokeh started to tease extra details about Slitterhead.
The corporate has launched a sequence of dev diaries displaying off the event course of for the sport, together with one during which we get to see some consumer testing part footage (and a really temporary snippet of moderately early-in-development-looking gameplay).
Along with these movies, Bokeh has additionally launched a number of Q&A classes with horror luminaries and business legends, together with chats with horror manga icon Junji Ito, Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka, and Dragon’s Dogma head honcho Hideaki Itsuno.
It is not clear precisely how far alongside the event pipeline Slitterhead truly is, however the truth that Bokeh is displaying gameplay this Friday is encouraging, at the very least.
We nonetheless haven’t got a launch date or perhaps a launch window for Slitterhead, however maybe we’ll study extra about once we can anticipate the sport to land later this week. Keep tuned for all of the information from Summer time Sport Fest as and once we get it.
