Hollow Knight: Silksong News

As Gamescom grows, its team talks Opening Night Live and the specter of Silksong

Some questions are immortal. What is the meaning of life? What is love? Hollow Knight Silksong? The latter has appeared in every chat at every streamed showcase since the game's reveal back in 2019, and oftentimes has been left without any real answer. But following the news that Team Cherry's highly anticipated Metroidvania will arrive this year, and that a playable demo will be available at Gamescom as part of Xbox's ASUS handheld collaboration, it finally feels like we may, in fact, get a solid release date pretty soon. Ahead of the event, I asked Gamescom directors Stefan Heikhaus and Tim Endres that age old question, and while they didn't tell me too much, this year's event is still shaping up to be amazing.

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I've taken my desire for a new Burnout game down to the Paradise City in wplace

Please, for the love of all that can be side-swiped into oncoming traffic, make a new Burnout game. This has been one of the five thoughts that fill my head on a daily basis for years at this point, and thanks to a website that's letting people draw pixel art all over Google Maps, I've been given yet another outlet via which to let it out.

That site is wplace, and it'll look familiar if you've been partial to the now defunct Reddit thread r/place at any point. Basically, anyone can hop into its map and colour in pixels to doodle over the top of any place on Earth, creating vast canvases of cool art and scrawled messages to whomever might be watching.

'Silksong?' A question posed in every livestream chat since what feels like the dawn of time, for years met with deafening silence and an intense wave of disappointment. Summer Game Fests and Gamescoms have come and gone for years, none of them providing even a sliver of information on perhaps the most highly anticipated videogame sequel out there. And then, right at the end of Nintendo's Switch 2 reveal, it appeared from nowhere: the Hollow Knight Silksong release window, simply set for 2025. Since then the hype has continued to skyrocket, and today's Nintendo Direct felt like the perfect time for yet more info to drop. That, however, simply wasn't to be.

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Xbox reveals Hollow Knight Silksong demo, but you'll have to up your air miles

It's all 'Silksong this,' 'Silksong that' these days. You see it in every livestream comment section and every social media post, from The Game Awards to Summer Game Fest. 'Where's Silksong?' The chorus of gamers caw out like the Finding Nemo's seagulls, and for good reason. Team Cherry's scorchingly-anticipated follow up to indie darling Hollow Knight has had us questioning whether we've all been collectively experiencing the Mandela effect for years now. But, finally, an opportunity to actually get hands on with Hollow Knight Silksong is on the horizon - provided you're willing to take a trip to Germany.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at Gamescom, as Xbox offer first chances to fiddle with the ROG Xbox Ally

A demo of Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at this year's Gamescom, with Microsoft set to show it off in tandem with the first public exhibition of the ROG Xbox Ally handheld.

Yep, the fates of this long-awaited Metroidvania sequel and Asus' Xbox-branded portable PC continue to intertwine, like star-crossed lovers. Well, aside from how star-crossed lovers are traditionally bound by love and crossed stars, not a desire to make money and also a desire to make more money.

Hollow Knight: Silksong News

As Gamescom grows, its team talks Opening Night Live and the specter of Silksong

I've taken my desire for a new Burnout game down to the Paradise City in wplace

Hollow Knight Silksong's Nintendo Direct no-show just cost us lots of free games

Xbox reveals Hollow Knight Silksong demo, but you'll have to up your air miles

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at Gamescom, as Xbox offer first chances to fiddle with the ROG Xbox Ally