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The Latest Breaking News from Silksong

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Silksong, Final Fantasy Tactics, and another Silent Hill. Surely this is all just a dream.

PC Gamer

Hollow Knight: Silksong for just $20? In this economy? It sounds too good to be true, but GameStop says it's so

Stop! Stop! The other games are already dead!

PC Gamer

Hollow Knight's creators didn't want to be constrained by the 'metroidvania' label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with

Like Stardew Valley, Hollow Knight is the rare successor to totally eclipse its inspirations.

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Silksong already led Steam wishlists a year ago—here’s how the other top games performed since

Let's try to predict the future of Silksong's playerbase.

Destructoid

Silksong exists, and so does the original Hollow Knight’s new all-time player record

Not a Silkpost—it's true!

Destructoid

"We refuse to fold": As multiple games scramble out of the way of Hollow Knight: Silksong's release, one platformer stands firm despite launching just 1 day before the Metroidvania

10/10 origami joke

GamesRadar

Almost 1,700 days—or 4.6 years—of daily Silksong news later, its brave watchman is finally ready to 'play Silksong in peace, however I want' and rest

"It's still kind of overwhelming, but I think now I've kinda got it down, the stuff that I need to do."

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PS5 exclusive horror game bucks the trend, announces a delay to get out of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's way instead of Hollow Knight: Silksong

Dino Crisis spiritual successor Code Violet has been delayed

GamesRadar

I can’t wait to pretend I’ve finished Silksong, just like I do with Hollow Knight

It is what it is.

Destructoid

Hollow Knight: Silksong has now delayed at least 8 indie games in the 5 days since its September release date was announced: "I feel like a little krill trying to not get eaten by a blue whale"

And the delays keep coming

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Silksong Kickstarter Backers should check their inbox right now

All about to unfold.

Destructoid

"Dropping the GTA of indie games with 2 weeks notice makes everyone freak out": Devs wanted to "fight Silksong," but it's added another body to its kill count with delay of Persona-inspired tactics RPG

Demonschool is delayed until November

GamesRadar

Tactical RPG Demonschool flees to November as Silksong claims another victim: 'We would not be doing Demonschool any favors by wading into waters we can clearly see are blood red'

Demonschool only announced its launch date two weeks ago—and then Silksong kicked down the door.

PC Gamer

One of the reasons Hollow Knight: Silksongs developers got to have so much fun making it despite taking 6 years is that it's a 2D game

They yearn for the PS1 sidescroller

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Now that Hollow Knight: Silksong has a release date, Team Cherry teases more to come post-launch – 'The most interesting thing now is what can we add to it next'

Team Cherry has confirmed it has plans to add new content to Hollow Knight: Silksong post-launch.

GamesRadar

'Hide from Silksong' delays hit indie roguelike and Metroidvania, devs say "we like a gamble, but this one is too risky" while another fears "competing with a phenomenon of that scale"

CloverPit and Aeterna Lucis are getting outta the way

Player One

'Hollow Knight: Silksong's' 7-Year Wait Is Finally Over: Here's What Took So Long

After seven years of silence and speculation, "Hollow Knight: Silksong" is set to launch next month, with millions of fans already waiting to play.

GamesRadar

The Hollow Knight: Silksong arc needs to be studied and remembered: a small team of happy devs were just "having fun" making their game, not burning out, while the internet imploded

Opinion | Sometimes the most boring explanation is the best one

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Destructoid

Hollow Knight Silksong took 7 years to create because it’s just too fun, devs say: ‘A vehicle for our creativity’

The devs had so much fun and ideas that implementing all of them would've taken 15 years.

Inverse

'Hollow Knight: Silksong' Just Proved Its Biggest Skeptics Totally Wrong

'Silksong' is finally heading to consoles and PC eight years after the release of 'Hollow Knight,' ending the intense period of speculation surrounding the sequel.

GamesRadar

Silksong devs tempt fate, tease "ambitious" DLC plans to add content to the long-awaited Metroidvania: "Hopefully we can achieve some of it"

Skongmania is far from over

PC Gamer

Why did Team Cherry's devs stay so quiet about Hollow Knight: Silksong? 'All we could really say is, we're still working on it', so they stopped doing that

"At the time we thought we'd go quiet for a year or two, then the game would come out."

GamesRadar

Hollow Knight: Silksong devs never read YouTube or Reddit comments, but they're aware a community of increasingly desperate Silkposters is out there: "Feels like we’re going to ruin their fun by releasing the game"

"They’ve obviously formed their own strange or very exciting communities around it"

GamesRadar

Silksong devs say there was no dev hell, only dev heaven: they've been quiet to avoid "bugging people," once thought it would be out in "a year or two," and "could have kept going" but also want to see this thing finished

"We've been having fun"

PC Gamer

Silksong finally has a release date, officially, from Team Cherry and everything—putting an end to over half a decade of Silksanity

I skong'd it my way.

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