An official remake of the original 1999 Silent Hill video game is currently being developed by the same team behind the successful Silent Hill 2 remake last year. The title was announced as being in development at the very end of Thursday’s Press Start game showcase, which showed off several upcoming games from Konami, including Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and more. 

Though the original Silent Hill has seen adaptations in the form of 2009’s Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and the 2006 film adaptation, both were quick to take their liberties with the source material. This time, we’d expect that Blooper Team is working closely with Konami to deliver a faithful remake, just as was done with 2024’s Silent Hill 2 remake. There’s currently no time frame or release date available for the upcoming release. 

The original Silent Hill follows Harry Mason in search of his missing 7-year-old daughter in the mysterious New England town of Silent Hill. Using only a town map and a half-broken handheld radio, Harry searches through the snowy, fog-leaden streets to find his daughter and soon discovers her true connection to the sleepy, sinister town. 

Launched as a direct competitor to Resident Evil, Silent Hill focuses on psychological horror and monsters manifested from the darkest corners of the mind by characters in the game. Unlike Resident Evil, protagonists in Silent Hill aren’t typically trained in combat, but rather your everyday person who feels helpless, often using found objects as weapons throughout the game. 

Prior to the announcement during the Press Start showcase, Konami dedicated nearly the last 10 minutes to the upcoming standalone title Silent Hill: f, which will be set in 1960s Japan. The title will be released on Sept. 25 and can be pre-purchased on PSN or Steam now. 

Also headed our way from Blooper Team is Cronos: The New Dawn, which saw its release window and new gameplay footage during the Summer Game Fest earlier this month. 

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You can check out Konami’s Press Start stream below. 

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Today’s Connections: Sports Edition has a tough purple category, but what else is new? If you’re not familiar with a certain basketball player’s life story, the blue group could also be tricky. Read on for hints and the answers.

Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can continue to play it free online.  

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Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.

Yellow group hint: Golden Gate.

Green group hint: Score!

Blue group hint: Sir Charles.

Purple group hint: Match-ups.

Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups

Yellow group: Bay Area teams.

Green group: Touchdown.

Blue group: Teams Charles Barkley played for.

Purple group: ____-to-____.

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What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?

The yellow words in today’s Connections

The theme is Bay Area teams. The four answers are 49ers, Sharks, Valkyries and Warriors.

The green words in today’s Connections

The theme is touchdown. The four answers are 6, paydirt, TD and tuddy.

The blue words in today’s Connections

The theme is teams Charles Barkley played for. The four answers are 76ers, Auburn, Rockets and Suns.

The purple words in today’s Connections

The theme is ____-to-____. The four answers are day, head, man and toe.

Every image you’ve ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth’s orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt. That means humans have never had a good angle to view the sun’s north and south poles until now. The European Space Agency has released images of the sun’s north and south poles, giving everyone their first glimpse at the top and bottom of our nearest star.

The imagery was taken by the ESA’s Solar Orbiter, which began its trek to view the sun’s polar regions in 2020. To do this, the Orbiter engaged its boosters, made some adjustments, and slingshotted itself around Venus at a staggering 27,000 miles per hour. 

Once it reached its destination, it took images using its Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI), the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI), and the Spectra Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument. 

«Today we reveal humankind’s first-ever views of the sun’s poles,» said Professor Carole Mundell, ESA director of science, in a blog post. «The sun is our nearest star, giver of life and potential disruptor of modern space and ground power systems, so it is imperative that we understand how it works and learn to predict its behavior. These new, unique views from our Solar Orbiter mission are the beginning of a new era of solar science.» 

See the Solar Orbiter’s stunning sun view

The images are viewable above or in a YouTube video on ESA’s channels. In the video, you can see the view that we Earthlings generally see before the video transitions to the solar orbiter’s viewpoint and zooms in so you can see the bottom of the sun in all of its hot, fiery glory. The video is only 50 seconds long, but it’s 50 seconds of footage that humans have never seen before. 

Most of the ESA’s images and videos are of the sun’s south pole, but the blog post includes imagery of the north pole as well. For the most part, scientists had no idea what to expect from the data, given that this is the first time any human had seen it before. 

The full dataset from the Orbiter’s first pole-to-pole adventure is set to reach Earth by October 2025, which will give scientists much more to work with in terms of understanding how the sun works. Future orbits will include measurements from all 10 of the Orbiter’s tools, so even more information is coming over the next few years.