Summer time Sport Fest organizer Geoff Keighley has introduced that one of many video games being showcased throughout this Friday’s presentation might be Bokeh Sport Studio’s Slitterhead, which is the brainchild of Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama.
In a put up on X (previously Twitter), Keighley says that the “gameplay world premiere” of Slitterhead might be proven throughout the Summer time Sport Fest opening presentation, which might 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 path 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 attainable to see some idea artwork for what would ultimately turn out to be Slitterhead in a video saying the muse 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 wherein we get to see some person testing section footage (and a really transient snippet of relatively early-in-development-looking gameplay).
Along with these movies, Bokeh has additionally launched a number of Q&A classes with horror luminaries and trade 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, a minimum of.
We nonetheless do not have a launch date or perhaps a launch window for Slitterhead, however maybe we’ll study extra about after we can anticipate the sport to land later this week. Keep tuned for all of the information from Summer time Sport Fest as and after we get it.
