[STEAM] Hollow Knight: Silksong Dev Fuels Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Fever With a Picture of a Chocolate Cake

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It’s been six years since Team Cherry announced

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, the eagerly awaited sequel to 2017 Metroidvania masterpiece

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. In those years fans have seen Silksong pop up and

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at various shows, and at one point

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. The Game Awards have been and gone with no Hollow Knight: Silksong. But could the

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finally be the one?

Fans think so, and it’s all because of a picture of a cake. Allow me to explain.

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noticed that on January 15, co-director of Team Cherry William Pellen had changed his

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/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 tomorrow

— little bomey (@everydruidwaswr)

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At the time, Nintendo’s Switch 2 reveal was rumored for January 16, and so it proved. That was the day

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, although there are still a number of burning questions we have about the next-gen console. Had Pellen really asked followers to keep an eye out for the Switch 2 reveal? If so, why?

This is the point where the Hollow Knight community went into overdrive — or off the deep end, depending on your point of view. Fans reverse-searched the picture of the cake, which led them to a recipe for Brooklyn Blackout Cake on cooking website

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. The date the recipe was published: April 2, 2024.

Why would that date be important here? Because Nintendo has confirmed Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 will air on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. That’s right, fans think Pellen has kicked off a Silksong alternate reality game (ARG) with that tweet and that picture of the cake.

Fans haven’t stopped there. They’re currently trying to work out what Pellen’s new X/

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handle, @everydruidwaswr, means, if anything.

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: “The character limit on

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handles is 15 characters, which is the length of ‘everydruidwaswr.’ I think “wr” is likely the start of a word, like wrong or something. I have yet to decipher this, but the Druid of the Moss Temple is a Silksong NPC.”

The plot thickens! Pellen has a new X/

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name to go along with the new handle and profile picture: little bomey. What’s that about? Fans have noticed Little Boomey is a wine from Southern Australia, where Team Cherry is based, but the spelling is different. What could it mean?!

It’s worth remembering that

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, Team Cherry confirmed launch platforms as Windows, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Switch. But that was six years ago. Has Nintendo snapped up Hollow Knight: Silksong as a Switch 2 launch title? Is it a timed exclusive? Is this all just bonkers behavior from information-starved fans?

We have a few months to find out. In the meantime, check out

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