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News by Tom Bramwell

5 February, 2010

Silent Hill musician and producer Akira Yamaoka has resurfaced at Grasshopper Manufacture following his departure from Konami in December.

According to Famitsu, in comments translated by 1UP, Yamaoka will begin by composing music for Grasshopper's upcoming horror title.

That game is being produced by Shinji Mikami, collaborated on by Q Entertainment and published by EA Partners, while Goichi Suda is acting as designer. Suda told Famitsu that he has admired Yamaoka ever since he first saw a Silent Hill 2 video at the Tokyo Game Show nearly a decade ago.

"That's why I thought I'd invite him over when I started hearing rumours that he left [Konami]," Suda said. Yamaoka described the move as "really good timing" and said he was "hooked on the company".

Grasshopper's recent output includes work on Fatal Frame IV, along with No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, which came out in the US recently.

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RobotRocker
05/02/10 @ 10:40
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Attention, this is glorious. Masafumi Takada, Jun Fukuda and Akira Yamaoka in the same friggin' company. We have died and gone to soundtrack heaven.
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Great news. But old.

This was widely reported all across the net 2 days ago!

PS. Gotta love the rate-downs for simply pointing out that this story broke on Wednesday.
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'Multiple Personality' from Killer 7 is my ringtone!
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05/02/10 @ 16:48
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More Yamaoka music can only be a good thing. Imo the Shattered Memories soundtrack was not that impressive, but if he can return to SH2 or 3 roots, it will be glorious. Those two are the only video game OSTs I own (besides Vice City, of course).
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Bit of a silly rule.
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Let's hope the sound track actually get's a proper release, not like the last two Silent Hill games with the only release being frigging gamestop exclusives
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@napalm: I hear that. I got the Origins soundtrack online tho. Not the best one, but still...

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