Silksong Receives Thrilling Update Before Summer Game Fest

Sure, let’s dive right into this swirling sea of gaming anticipation and buzz. Bear with me, it might get choppy.

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So, here’s a funny little tidbit: They finally updated the Steam page for Hollow Knight: Silksong, and yeah, people are losing their minds a bit. This game, man—it’s kind of become that inside joke in gamer circles. Like, will it ever actually exist? It’s been what, over six years since they first dangled that carrot? Anyway, there’s murmuring that it might drop out of nowhere during the Summer Game Fest. Or maybe they’ll just tease us with a release date. Who really knows!

Speaking of teases, Team Cherry, the brains behind this whole thing, have been, well, quiet. Too quiet, you know? They had plans to release the game in 2023, but then life happened or something, and poof, silence. Then out of nowhere in January 2025, Matthew Griffin from Team Cherry gave us a little nugget that yep, they’re still working hard. But that’s it. Fans were like, “Okay, cool, but we want more!” Especially after being ghosted at Gamescom 2024 and The Game Awards 2024. But hey, with these recent updates, there might be light at the end of the tunnel.

Anyway—or wait, I’m getting ahead of myself—where was I? Ah, SteamDB! Some sharp-eyed folks over on Twitter (looking at you, Wario64) and Reddit (TomNook5058 for the win) noticed some changes to the Silksong packages on Steam. One package was wrangled with after 15 months of nothing. Does that mean something juicy is about to go down? Maybe they’ll drop a release with the new Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5. That’d be wild, right?

Oh, and get this—Silksong might just shimmy its way into ACMI in Australia come September. They’ll have a chance to poke around at the Game Worlds exhibition, which is like a buffet of concept art and interactive bits from all sorts of games. So yeah, at least some folks will get to touch it early.

Meanwhile, everyone else will be glued to Summer Game Fest on June 6, in hopes of catching a glimpse of Silksong along with big names like Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, and—wait for it—The Outer Worlds 2. Rumor has it, even Resident Evil 9 might rear its zombie head.

Okay, wrapping this up because my coffee’s getting cold. Will Silksong shine at the Fest? Is it a mirage? Place your bets, I guess.