{"id":1353,"date":"2026-04-21T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2026-08-04T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:07:20","slug":"the-house-that-fear-built-silent-hill-2-remake-developer-bloober-team-expanding-to-work-on-seven-horror-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/the-house-that-fear-built-silent-hill-2-remake-developer-bloober-team-expanding-to-work-on-seven-horror-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The House That Fear Built: Silent Hill 2 Remake Developer Bloober Team Expanding to Work on Seven Horror Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Major Executive Expansion: Bloober Team has hired top talent from Activision, Wargaming, Techland, and CD Projekt Red to support a transition to a multi-project structure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seven Games in Development: The studio is balancing two internal AAA horror projects\u2014including sci-fi horror Cronos: The New Dawn\u2014alongside five co-developed titles under its Broken Mirror Games label.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anti-Layoff Philosophy: CEO Piotr Babieno emphasized sustainable growth, stating the studio refuses to pursue reckless expansion that leads to industry layoffs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Following the massive success of the Silent Hill 2 remake and its sci-fi survival horror hit Cronos: The New Dawn, Polish developer Bloober Team is officially shifting into a multi-project studio structure. To manage this ambition, the studio has expanded its executive leadership and confirmed that seven distinct horror projects are currently in development across its internal teams and publishing partners.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Price: Bloober Team&#8217;s recent major releases\u2014including Silent Hill 2 Remake and Cronos: The New Dawn\u2014carry a standard retail price of US $59.99 \/ UK \u00a349.99 \/ NZ $87.40 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The studio&#8217;s strategic expansion introduces three industry veterans: Thaine Lyman (formerly of Activision and Wargaming) joins as Head of Studio, Katya Baukova (ex-CD Projekt Red and Techland) steps in as Director of Business Development, and Micha\u0142 Gembicki (former CEO of Klabater) takes charge as Head of Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CEO Piotr Babieno explained that the company will maintain two core internal development teams focused on high-budget, single-player action-horror experiences with deep narrative themes. Meanwhile, Bloober&#8217;s co-development label, Broken Mirror Games, is overseeing five additional partner projects in various production stages\u2014including Layers of Fear 3 and the Nintendo-exclusive Project M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the rapid project pipeline, Babieno emphasized that Bloober Team (currently standing at around 270 employees) prioritizes employee retention over rapid, reckless scaling. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to build a company that grows recklessly and then solves its problems through restructuring,&#8221; Babieno stated, underscoring the studio&#8217;s commitment to financial discipline and sustainable growth within an unstable gaming industry landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-small-font-size\">\u00a92026 Bloober Team S.A. All Rights Reserved. Bloober Team, Layers of Fear, Cronos: The New Dawn, and Broken Mirror Games are registered trademarks or trademarks of Bloober Team S.A. SILENT HILL is a registered trademark of Konami Digital Entertainment. PlayStation and PS5 are registered trademarks of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price: Bloober Team&#8217;s recent major releases\u2014including Silent Hill 2 Remake and Cronos: The New Dawn\u2014carry a standard retail price of US $59.99 \/ UK \u00a349.99 \/ NZ $87.40 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. The studio&#8217;s strategic expansion introduces three industry veterans: Thaine Lyman (formerly of Activision and Wargaming) joins as Head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,174,175,177,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multi","category-pc","category-ps5","category-switch","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tasteshk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}