Ahead of the Silent Hill 2 remake launch next month, a long-running community project that was one of the best ways to play the original is coming to a close. The team behind Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition announced over the weekend that they’re releasing its 10th and final update.
The project’s end has been in the works for around two years, according to a post on X (formerly Twitter), and the team is “satisfied” with the work they’ve done.
“Virtually everything we set out to achieve, we accomplished,” project manager John Kubiak said in an announcement video posted Wednesday commemorating the update. “And that brings me a great sense of joy and closure as we wind things down.”
The team is set to take a break before taking on other projects, but in the meantime, they’ll be applying hotfixes and other updates to the game. They won’t be taking on any tasks that require new features, Kubiak said.
A lot of the changes in the huge final update are visual in nature, with restored flashlight reflections, “true” 60-frame-per-second FMVs in cutscenes, and improved water visuals. You can view the long list of changes in this hour-long video, which really shows the granular work the team put in to ensure the Enhanced Edition looks as good as it does. Some full-screen images have been completely re-created in 3D, while specific texture glitches have been fixed. The team even created new assets to expand upon the world, like having scenes that exist beyond walls.
One of my favorite additions involves one puzzle where you have to insert a light bulb into a lamp inside a bar. The team added a power cord to the lamp since, you know, lamps run on electricity.
For a long time, the best way to play Silent Hill 2 on PC was through the Enhanced Edition project. This fan-made mod added huge improvements to the PC copy of the game (which you did need to own before installing the Enhanced Edition), updating it for modern hardware with things higher-definition resolution support and a ton of visual and gameplay fixes. It even looks better — sharper, with deeper colors — in many ways than official console copies, like you’d get on the PlayStation 2. It even has a dedicated speedrun mode that adds an in-game timer and adds updates while maintaining the most common strategies.
Silent Hill 2’s remake, developed by Bloober Team, will release on October 8 for PlayStation 5 and PC.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.