Tag Archives: Silksong

Stardew Valley’s creator is in Silksong

Stardew Valley’s creator is in Silksong

Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the indie smash hit Hollow Knight, is finally out, and according to Silksong’s credits, the game features the voice of Eric Barone, the creator of another indie smash hit, Stardew Valley. (You may also know Barone by the name ConcernedApe, which he goes by online.) You can see Barone’s name listed under the “Additional …

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‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

After six years of waiting, Team Cherry’s long awaited Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, launched globally today at 10 am EDT. Unfortunately, fans may have to wait a little longer to play the action-adventure game. Online retailers such as the Xbox and PlayStation stores, Steam, and Nintendo eShop are rife with loading screens and error messages as people rush to buy …

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Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop

An influx of players excited for this morning’s launch of Hollow Knight: Silksong are encountering widespread errors purchasing and downloading the game from Steam this morning. Ars Technica writers have encountered errors getting store pages to load, adding the game to an online shopping cart, and checking out once the game is part of the cart. That aligns with widespread …

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Silksong fans have brought down the eShop, Steam and Xbox Store

Silksong fans have brought down the eShop, Steam and Xbox Store

Hollow Knight: Silksong is officially available for purchase, after six long years of waiting. The anticipation is at a fever pitch. Fans have swarmed to Steam to purchase the game and, well, it looks like they overloaded the system and shut it down. The same thing seems to be happening to the Nintendo eShop and the Xbox Store. Multiple social …

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“It feels unreal in a way”: After nearly 1700 days, Daily Silksong News’ bittersweet goodbye on the eve of Hollow Knight sequel’s release

“It feels unreal in a way”: After nearly 1700 days, Daily Silksong News’ bittersweet goodbye on the eve of Hollow Knight sequel’s release

Daily Silksong News, a YouTube channel and Discord server that has been posting constant updates on Team Cherry’s action adventure game Hollow Knight: Silksong, has said farewell after 1694 days of uploads. The final video, which premiered as Hollow Knight: Silksong became available for sale and titled The End, the video featured a stop-motion skit sending the channel off with …

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How ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

How ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Fans Turned Waiting for Its Release Into a Game

Initially, Silksong was planned as downloadable content for the original game, before its creators expanded it into a full-fledged sequel. In August, when developers surprise-announced that the game would launch in just two weeks, at least half a dozen other indie developers immediately delayed their own games to clear the way. “Dropping the GTA of indie games with 2 weeks …

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Bitten by the hardware bug, Hollow Knight: Silksong gets ultrawide support

Bitten by the hardware bug, Hollow Knight: Silksong gets ultrawide support

Good news for the ultrawide monitor-owning Nic Reubens of the world: Hollow Knight: Silksong will, unlike its narrow-eyed predecessor, natively support stretchy displays up to the 21:9 format when it finally releases tomorrow. Silksong marketing-man-at-large Matthew Griffin shared some demonstrative screenshots on Xitter, confirming that it won’t require any of the weird bodging that Hollow Knight did to fill out …

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Supports A PC Feature Missing From The Original

Hollow Knight: Silksong Supports A PC Feature Missing From The Original

If you’re at the intersection of ultra-wide monitor users and fans of Hollow Knight, then you’re in luck. On the eve of the long-awaited (hard emphasis on “long”) release of Hollow Knight: Silksong, the game’s marketing lead confirmed that the metroidvania will support 21:9 displays, giving players another option on how to view its gorgeous 2D art. Matthew Griffin, the …

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