[STEAM] Hollow Knight Fans Are Ready to Have Their Hearts Broken Again by Tuesday's Nintendo Direct

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A pair of

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have been announced for tomorrow, one focused on indie games and another focused on larger, third-party partners.

Which means that Hollow Knight fans are once again preparing for inevitable heartbreak if Hollow Knight: Silksong doesn't appear.

If you've somehow missed this entire saga, Hollow Knight: Silksong is the eagerly-awaited sequel to 2017 Metroidvania Hollow Knight. Hollow Knight was adored by critics and fans alike (

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), so in 2019 when developer Team Cherry

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, it was met with enthusiasm.

When Silksong was revealed, it didn't come alongside a release window. But ever since its 2019 unveiling, fans have been foaming at the mouth waiting for it to officially come out. We

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the game in action back in 2021, and it's

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with

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a few times since, but still no word on when it'll actually drop. At one point, Xbox

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that Silksong would drop before June of 2023, but then that didn't happen. Earlier this year, the game

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of all days, and you can imagine how that went over. There was

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, and then

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before gamescom Opening Night Live and tell them Silksong wouldn't be there either.



Just to get this out of the way, no Silksong on Tuesday at ONL.

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is still cooking.

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— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley)

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The result of this long wait is that every single time there's a games showcase of any kind - a Nintendo Direct, an Xbox or PlayStation showcase, anything Keighley puts on - fans immediately start talking about Silksong. Will it show up? Will they be disappointed again? Almost every time, there's a seeming consensus it won't be there, but that vibe tends to come alongside a kind of desperate longing to be wrong. We're seeing it now, with tomorrow's Nintendo Direct. There's a ResetEra poll where, at the time of this writing,

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. We've got tweets:



If there was ever a time for silksong the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell would be it

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— TAHK0 ️ (@TAHK0)

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There's

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