Guillermo Del Toro Will Never Work On A Video Game Again

Briefly: This is truly the darkest timeline.

Just a year ago, PS4 players everywhere were being scared shitless by Lisa and the countless terrors of the dreaded hallway in P.T., a new ‘indie’ title that actually turned out to be a ‘Playable Teaser’ for Silent Hills.

The game was set to reboot the once venerable and now beyond mediocre horror series, and was to be an incredible collaboration between three fantastic artists, Hideo Kojima, Guillermo Del Toro, and Norman Reedus.

Then, shit hit the fan, the game was cancelled, Konami all but stopped making video games (a hyperbole, but barely), and we heard rumours that Del Toro and Kojima still wanted to work together on a gaming project.

Del Toro just revealed that that’s never going to happen. In an interview with Shack News, he said the following:

I have proven to be the albatross of video games. I joined THQ, and THQ goes broke. I join Kojima, and Kojima leaves Konami. I have decided, in order not to destroy anyone else’s life, I have decided I will never again get involved in video games. Otherwise, I’ll join someone and his house will explode, or something.”

Has 2015 been the worst year for video game news? Is there a year that’s had anything worse happen? Or has it just hit me especially hard because I’m a Silent Hill fan?

Do you hope to see another Del Toro and Kojima-less Silent Hill game? Even with the series’ recent track record? Sound out below.