Hollow Knight: Silksong Will NOT Be at Opening Night Live, Geoff Keighley Confirms
The annual Opening Night Live show is set to feature a long list of games, but one particularly high-profile upcoming sequel will not be there: Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Anticipation for Silksong is so great that those who host livestreams packed full of game announcements, reveals, and new trailers are having to manage expectations by saying Team Cherry’s game will not appear.
In recent years, shows like ONL have seen their chat overrun by requests for Hollow Knight: Silksong, perhaps to the detriment of games that do end up appearing. So it makes sense that Geoff Keighley, who runs ONL as well as the annual Game Awards show, would want to tweet to confirm the Hollow Knight: Silksong no-show. “Just to get this out of the way, no Silksong on Tuesday at ONL,” Keighley said. “Team Cherry Games is still cooking.”
Just to get this out of the way, no Silksong on Tuesday at ONL. @TeamCherryGames is still cooking. pic.twitter.com/FlQHlc26zo
Hollow Knight fans were already left with an all-too familiar feeling of dismay after 2024's E3-esque video game summer showcases came and went with no word on Silksong. Fans have admitted to concern for the game, which hasn't received any official updates in over a year when developer Team Cherry delayed it out of early 2023.
Silksong was announced on February 14, 2019 as a Hollow Knight expansion turned full sequel focused on Hornet from the original game. "Almost from the very start, Hornet’s adventure was intended to take place in a new land, but as we dove in, it quickly became too large and too unique to stay a DLC, as initially planned," Team Cherry said at the time. "We do know that makes the wait a little longer, but we think the final, fresh world you’ll get to explore is worth it."
The developer then went quiet for two years, only emerging in 2021 to announce it wouldn't have anything to say about Silksong at E3 that year. Another year passed and Silksong finally reared its head, as the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase of 2022 reveale
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