10 Video Games That KILLED Other Video Games

10. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Killed Silent Hills

In August 2014, it was announced that a new Silent Hill game, Silent Hills, was in development at Konami, with Metal Gear Solid's Hideo Kojima collaborating with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and actor Norman Reedus on the project.

The moody, visually stunning Playable Teaser (P.T.) released for the game got fans extremely excited, but in April 2015 Konami abruptly announced that Silent Hills had been cancelled.

It later transpired that the game was a casualty of the frayed relationship between Konami and Kojima that reached a fever pitch during development of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which ultimately released a few months after Silent Hills' cancellation.

If you believe Konami, Kojima went over-budget and over-schedule on the project, while Kojima's supporters claim that Konami forced him to effectively release an unfinished game.

Either way, Metal Gear Solid V was the clear result of artistic compromise, and given that rumours emerged in March 2015 that Kojima would leave Konami once development on the game was finished - as he did - it's easy to draw a direct line to Silent Hills getting the chop the next month.

Though Kojima was able to re-establish his Kojima Productions studio independently after leaving Konami, he'll likely never be able to revive the Silent Hills project given that the IP is owned by Konami.