Genvid has released a new premiere trailer for the upcoming Interactive Streaming series Silent Hill: Ascension. Additionally, the media company announced that it has partnered with Sony Picture Entertainment to host the series on the Sony Pictures Core app for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4, the Bravia Core app for Bravia TVs, and for Xperia app on certain Xperia smartphones. Silent Hill: Ascension will launch on October 31 for desktop browsers as well as iOS and Android devices. In Silent Hill: Ascension, players will play along with the rest of the community, and will “impact the canon of Silent Hill.”
Genvid interactive series creator and chief creative officer Stephan Bugaj commented on the announcement in a press release, saying:
“We’re excited to introduce the Johansen and Hernandez families into the Silent Hill universe. As they delve deeper into their own horrors, and their towns are simultaneously consumed by mass hysteria, these two families will uncover strange connections between them despite being a world apart.”
Genvid CEO Jacob Navok added:
“There has never been an experience like Silent Hill: Ascension before. It’s not a game, but an interactive streaming series that will change as the audience makes decisions together. While I’m executive producing the title, I don’t know how it will end. That is in your hands. And the content you make will be streamed worldwide on televisions and phones, through our relationships with Sony Pictures, Google, Apple and others. Participating in Silent Hill: Ascension each day means you’ll be part of history that will never come again.”
Sony Pictures Entertainment New Media Distribution senior vice president Pete Wood:
“We are exploring all new territory with Silent Hill: Ascension. Through this unique venture with Genvid, we are excited to offer viewers on Sony devices a weekly catch up on the action of Silent Hill: Ascension with full episodes of compiled scenes from this innovative, interactive series.”
The game’s details via Genvid:Silent Hill: Ascension is a mind-bending, interactive streaming series following the complex lives of two families in peril, linked by a series of unnerving visions and terrifying monstrosities that hound them to the brink of damnation.Audiences will be taken to a troubled rust-belt town in Pennsylvania called Hope’s Junction, rebuilding itself after a fatal steel mill accident decimated its economy. Another death shakes the community, and Rachel Hernandez is held responsible. Halfway around the world, in a dying fishing village in Norway named Stilledalen, the uneasy peace of the Johansen family is upended when their matriarch, Ingrid, dies under suspicious circumstances.Each character’s survival depends on overcoming their darkest impulses and painful pasts, as they confront their own horrors and discover the mysterious links that connect them. Will these characters find redemption, suffering or damnation? You will decide their fate.
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