Latest installment in the Silent Hill series titled Silent Hill : Homecoming (aka Silent Hill 5), has leaked to several one click hosting sites and BitTorrent trackers across the world. The leak seems to have originated from Russian private torrent tracker game-torrents.info and then spread to other Russian trackers such as Torrents.Ru. An English version of the game has now leaked to public trackers including The Pirate Bay (TPB).
The significance of this leak is that there never was a retail PC version of Silent Hill : Homecoming; the game was distributed exclusively via Steam digital content delivery platform. What is leaked to torrent trackers seem to be a Russian version of the game downloaded from steam but repacked later with English language files (size is around 4.6GB). In short, it’s a playable English version of the game.
Update: There is a 3.92GB English version on several private trackers by group GTI (not a scene group). NFO says it’s the full steam version. Also, this game does not seem to be working on ATI X1950, X1600 and other X1000 series cards.
Valve’s Steam has this reputation of being “Uncrackable” or extremely hard to crack but almost all major Steam exclusive games have been pirated using various workarounds. Even with Silent Hill : Homecoming, there is no ‘crack’ to speak of. I don’t think many pirates will care about the ‘uncrackableness’ of Steam as long as they get to play the game.
Developer Description
Silent Hill: Homecoming is the latest entry in the Silent Hill franchise. The story follows Alex Shepherd, returning to his hometown of Shepherd's Glen to investigate the sudden disappearance of his brother. From Shepherd's Glen to the foggy streets of Silent Hill, Alex must face the darkest of horrors in order to find his brother. Struggling with his own grip on reality, Alex must unravel the mystery behind his nightmares, discover the truth behind his brother's and father's disappearances, and confront the evil that has taken hold of his own flesh and blood.
Minimum System Requirements
- OS: Windows XP/Vista
- Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista)
- Memory: 1 GB
- Hard Drive: 10 GB Free
- Video Memory: 256 MB (nVidia GeForce 7800 GT/ATI Radeon X1950)
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- DirectX: 9.0c
- Keyboard & Mouse
Recommended System Requirements
- OS: Windows XP/Vista
- Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz (3.2 GHz for Vista)
- Memory: 2 GB
- Hard Drive: 10 GB Free
- Video Memory: 512 MB (nVidia GeForce 8800 GT/ATI HD2900)
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- DirectX: 9.0c or 10
- Keyboard & Mouse
