If you were worried that Akira Yamaoka’s sudden departure from Konami would be a blow not only to Silent Hill but gaming at large, you should probably revise your priorities can rest easy. The onetime Silent Hill composer and producer has landed a job with Grasshopper Manufacture. The studio is home to Goichi Suda [...]

It’s not every day that one of the pillars underlying a franchise outright disappears, but Akira Yamaoka left Konami today (via originalsoundversion.com). Yamaoka contributed compositions to every game in the Silent Hill series. The atmospheric survival horror franchise has been critically acclaimed for excellence in sound and music design.
Neither Konami nor Yamaoka have commented on [...]