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 submit 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 course 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 finally develop into Slitterhead in a video saying 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 collection of dev diaries exhibiting off the event course of for the sport, together with one wherein we get to see some consumer testing section footage (and a really transient snippet of quite early-in-development-looking gameplay).
Along with these movies, Bokeh has additionally launched a number of Q&A periods 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 exhibiting gameplay this Friday is encouraging, no less than.
We nonetheless do not have a launch date or perhaps a launch window for Slitterhead, however maybe we’ll be taught 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.