After what feels like a lifetime of leaks and rumours, Silent Hill: The Short Message has finally been announced, and it's releasing later today for free.

Considering how long it's been since we've seen the Silent Hill 2 remake, many of us were expecting it to make an appearance at tonight's PlayStation State of Play, something that unsurprisingly ended up happening. While that one was obvious, perhaps the biggest shock of the night was finally seeing the mysterious Short Message reemerge after many assumed it was cancelled.

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For those who don't know what The Short Message is, here's a Silent Hill history lesson for you. Just before Konami announced that it was going to be bringing back Silent Hill in a big way with a new game, a remake of Silent Hill 2, and a whole lot more, leaked concept art for a game called Silent Hill: The Short Message was discovered.

The concept art showed a girl exploring what appeared to be an apartment complex of sorts that was covered in post-it notes with abusive messages on them and weird flowers that linked to another title for what was assumed to be a demo - Project Sakura. Despite leaking and then getting an age rating before the Silent Hill presentation, The Short Message was completely missing in action and was considered cancelled.

Even after being considered cancelled, The Short Message still somehow kept getting leaked, confusing fans even more.

Well, after a long time of fans thinking that Silent Hill: The Short Message had been cancelled or left behind, Konami has finally decided to reveal it with a trailer that debuted at the State of Play. Just like the concept art showed, the game seems to focus on a young girl who is either dealing with bullying (hence the post-it-notes) or responsible for it. Knowing Silent Hill, it's probably the latter.

Not too much was revealed about the game beyond the fact it appears to be in first-person (cough PT cough), but if you were interested in it in the slightest then you'll be happy to know that it's completely free and releasing at some point later today. The name implies that it's closer to a demo, but it'll be an interesting look into the future of Silent Hill either way.

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