Konami is gearing up for the 2008 holiday season by releasing its list of upcoming games for every major platform.

To Konami’s credit, it has a wide variety of genres to choose from this winter. Most of them are music based titles such as Dance Dance Revolution titles, Karaoke Revolution, and its newest entry into the plastic instrument playing universe, Rock Revolution. Just try to find something in this list that doesn’t interest you. My guess is that would be a difficult task.

Click through for Konami’s complete Fall/Winter 2008 lineup…

Konami has unleashed a multitude of screen shots and information on the latest entry in the Silent Hill series, Silent Hill: Homecoming. It is the first game in the series to appear on next-gen consoles, and will be released on the PS3 and Xbox 360 in September 2008. Konami also confirmed that Akira Yamaoka will be providing the soundtrack for the new entry.

Silent Hill: Homecoming stars Alex Shepherd, a soldier who is returning to Shepherd’s Glen, his hometown, to find out what has happened to his brother and father. His search takes him into the town of Silent Hill, where he will face unusual monsters and people, all while discovering where his father and brother have gone.

The first next-gen Silent Hill game has been officially announced, dated and named. Silent Hill: Homecoming, the sixth Silent Hill title, will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime in September, 2008. It stars an all new character, Alex Shepherd, who returns home to search for his brother, who has disappeared.

Interestingly enough, that September, 2008 release estimate applies not only to North America, but Europe as well. First The World Ends with You gets to Europeans before Americans, and now Europeans will most likely get Silent Hill: Homecoming at the same time as Americans. It looks like both Konami and Square Enix want to show that they appreciate European gamers.