Another big gaming conference has come and went, with Summer Game Fest, Microsoft's big Xbox Games Showcase, and others giving folks a close look at countless new and upcoming games coming in 2025 and beyond. All in all, it was a great weekend to be a gamer — unless, of course, you're a Hollow Knight: Silksong fan that'd dared to hope for some concrete release date news.
If you, like me, begrudgingly put on the clown makeup and figured you'd see Silksong get a new trailer and a release date, you were also probably disappointed yet again by the sequel's complete absence from Summer Game Fest outside of a playful, but painful jab from Geoff Keighley. I then doubled down to become the whole circus and prayed Silksong would appear at the Xbox Games Showcase, and lo and behold, it did — but only long enough for Xbox president Sarah Bond to reveal it'd be available to play day one on Microsoft's Xbox Ally handheld slated for a Holiday 2025 release.
