Summer season Sport Fest organizer Geoff Keighley has introduced that one of many video games being showcased throughout this Friday’s presentation can be Bokeh Sport Studio’s Slitterhead, which is the brainchild of Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama.
In a submit on X (previously Twitter), Keighley says that the “gameplay world premiere” of Slitterhead can be proven in the course of the Summer season Sport Fest opening presentation, which can be occurring at 5pm Japanese on Friday.
Slitterhead was first unveiled again in 2021 as a part of that 12 months’s Sport Awards ceremony. A teaser trailer for the sport was proven, revealing its artwork route and a few of its creature design (though, crucially, no gameplay was demonstrated).
![The shadow of a spindly, skeletal monster menacing a man in Bokeh Game Studio's Slitterhead, which will be shown at SGF 2024](https://techraptor.net/sites/default/files/styles/content_inline_mobile/public/images/bokeh-game-studio-slitterhead-gameplay-reveal-sgf-monster.jpg?itok=_9aDKxRn)
The sport was truly teased sooner than that 12 months’s Sport Awards, although. It is doable to see some idea artwork for what would finally develop into Slitterhead in a video asserting the muse of Bokeh Sport Studio from again in late 2020.
After the Sport Awards reveal, Bokeh started to tease extra details about Slitterhead.
The corporate has launched a sequence of dev diaries exhibiting off the event course of for the sport, together with one wherein we get to see some person testing section footage (and a really temporary snippet of fairly early-in-development-looking gameplay).
Along with these movies, Bokeh has additionally launched a number of Q&A classes with horror luminaries and business legends, together with chats with horror manga icon Junji Ito, Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka, and Dragon’s Dogma head honcho Hideaki Itsuno.
![A man in a motorcycle helmet seemingly summoning a sword made of blood in Slitterhead](https://techraptor.net/sites/default/files/styles/content_inline_mobile/public/images/bokeh-game-studio-slitterhead-gameplay-reveal-sgf-motorcycle-helmet.jpg?itok=fYUjaloR)
It is not clear precisely how far alongside the event pipeline Slitterhead truly is, however the truth that Bokeh is exhibiting gameplay this Friday is encouraging, at the least.
We nonetheless do not have a launch date or perhaps a launch window for Slitterhead, however maybe we’ll study extra about once we can anticipate the sport to land later this week. Keep tuned for all of the information from Summer season Sport Fest as and once we get it.