It’s been six years since Team Cherry announced Hollow Knight: Silksong, the eagerly awaited sequel to 2017 Metroidvania masterpiece Hollow Knight.
In those years fans have seen Silksong pop up and fail to pop up at various shows, and at one point Microsoft even appeared to confirm the game would launch before June 2023.
The Game Awards have been and gone with no Hollow Knight: Silksong. But could the just-announced Nintendo Switch 2 Direct finally be the one?Fans think so, and it’s all because of a picture of a cake.
Allow me to explain.Supersleuths on the Hollow Knight subreddit noticed that on January 15, co-director of Team Cherry William Pellen had changed his Twitter/X profile picture to a picture of a chocolate cake.
Pellen tweeted: “something big is coming. keep your eyes closed tomorrow.”something big is coming. keep your eyes closed tomorrowAt the time, Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal was rumored for January 16, and so it proved.