Silent Hill: Ascension could feature your character, but its season pass sounds like a nightmare

Silent Hill: Ascension is finally launching today, and developer Genvid Entertainment has finally explained how it plans to make money from the thing. Before I go ahead with explaining how Silent Hill: Ascension actually works, let me just preface this by saying I have never been more stunned by a blatant cash grab using a classic IP in my life before as I have with this game. Earlier today, Genvid Entertainment released a trailer covering "The Essentials" of Silent Hill: Ascension, which are clearly so essential you didn't need to know about them until the game, or glorified livestream, was hours out from launching. For starters, there's the voting system. We already knew that you could vote to make it so that certain scenes can unfold in certain ways, but today's trailer has revealed you do so with a resource called IP. While Genvid CEO Jacob Navok says it isn't just pay to win, you can just buy IP directly using real money, and the more IP you have, the more you can spend to influence certain decisions, so, not really sure what Navok means there. Read more