Konami’s working with a new developer on a new Silent Hill game for “next-gen consoles”, aka PS3 and Xbox 360.

The publisher revealed the news at an event in Frankfurt, Germany yesterday – dutifully attended by Eurogamer Germany.

No other details were given.

Silent Hill: Homecoming was Konami’s last original take on the IP and was released in autumn 2008 to a lukewarm reception. Better received was Silent Hill: Shattered Memories on Wii, a re-imagining of the first Silent Hill game from 1999.

Shattered Memories received a whopping 9/10 here on Eurogamer but sadly hasn’t appealed to the Wii audience in quite the same way.

Konami’s Gamers Night 2010 presentation concluded with a nice surprise: A teaser trailer for what could only be a new Silent Hill game. Well, maybe not entirely new.

In the footage, which appeared to be an in-engine recording of gameplay from one or both of the current HD consoles, a male character resembling James Sunderland from Silent Hill 2 awoke from a public bench and began wandering the foggy, deserted streets of a suburban neighborhood. While the game’s title was not revealed, given the recent revisiting of the original Silent Hill in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, a remake of the second game in the series doesn’t seem too far-fetched.

The teaser ended with the tagline: “End the Silence” and “E3.” We suspect the weather report for Los Angeles in the third week of June will call for sunny with a chance of terrifying fog.

At Konami’s press event last night in San Francisco, the company closed the show with a brief glimpse at the next Silent Hill game. The short trailer was light on specifics: a blonde man sits on the edge of a bed holding his head in his hands. The world around him morphs into a dark, deserted road in front of a dilapidated gate. The man hears a sound, turns, sees nothing, then gets attacked by something from the darkness when he turns back.

Will it be another retelling a la the divisive Shattered Memories? An entirely new entry in the series? At this point we don’t even have an official title, so it’s all conjecture.

However, we do know the game is being developed by Vatra Games, the same company behind the upcoming Rush ‘N Attack. While the trailer itself was devoid of any concrete details beyond “more to come at E3,” the developer’s website details the company’s focus on “high-end action titles for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC,” so it’s safe to assume that the next Silent Hill will probably not be for Wii or one of the handheld platforms. And, well, there definitely won’t be any music from long time series composer, Akira Yamaoka, but you already knew that.