Check in on the Hollow Knight: Silksong fans in your life, because the triple-whammy of mentions, no-shows, and clarifications at Summer Game Fest was absolutely brutal
The Silkposting is coming from outside the Skong

The fatigued yet determined 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hollow Knight: Silksong community, perpetually waiting for a sequel that at times has felt like a hallucination, is used to disappointment and accustomed to being the butt of a joke. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Prepare your clown makeup, and so on. But after years of letdowns, and even with a 2025 Silksong launch now firmly in sight, this year's string of not-E3 showings has been especially painful. We have a date, we know it's real, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:we kn🌳ow it's coming before the holiday season, butꦗ sure, here's one last volley of no-shows for the books.
It's bad enough that the genuinely significant news around Silksong – the fact it's out "before" the holidays – arrived not during any of the big showcases teed up this month, but in a trace Discord post initially seen only by the Skong devoted. Separately, marketing lead Matthew Griffin 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:reckoned "DLC is likely, but that decision isn't up to me."
This news was a welcome but flimsy bandage on fresh wounds from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest, where Geoff Keighley and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft te🌞amed up to piledrive Silksong fans into the trenches of despera🌃tion.
Silksong was indeed mentioned at the big SGF opening night live, but only in pღassing as a launchpad for a new Deadpool VR game. "You're gonna do me a solid and skip that Silksong trailer so you can hit my revolutionary VR gaming venture that will shock the industry, probably," Keighley said, reading off a card purportedly sent by Deadpool himself. (I don't believe it, personally; iܫt was probably a ghost writer.)
Worse still, we actually saw Silksong footage in Microsoft's reveal of the new 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Asus ROG Xbox Ally, its new portable PC run🤡ning an Xbox-ified version of Windows that hopefully makes up for the fact that this is otherwise an RO🦋G Ally with Xbox branding so thin you could see your hand through it.

It was right there! The first thing we saw on the handheld's app list was Silksong, joined by Gears Tactics, Balatro, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The reveal trailer went straight into Silksong gameplay, with new protagonist Hornet pirouetting and pogoing over enemies in a field. Microsoft was really lingering on this, but it all came to nothing.
Several years after Xbox said the game would be out within a year, Xbox boss Phil Spencer says the Silksong appearance at the Xbox Ally reveal was j🐓ust a "good partnership" and a fun way to include Team Cherry. The game itself is totally divorcedಌ from the handheld, which will simplyꦉ provide another way to play it.
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Bear in mind, this string of duds came on the heels of澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: the umpteenth round of Stea💧m backend spying, with some fans convincing themselves once again that something could be on the horizon. A shadow drop? A demo? A new trailer? An actual release date, dare we dream? It's summer showcase season, now's the time! But no, it was all another mirage. 🌃More often than not, Hollow Knight fans do this to themselves, but this really was a perfect sto🐬rm of setup with no payoff. But hey, we're only a few months away. Surely.

Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for🔯 his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.
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