[STEAM] Just Hours Before Today's Nintendo Direct, a Hollow Knight Switch 2 Rating Suggests It's Coming as a Shadow Drop

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With just hours to go until today's Nintendo Direct broadcast, an updated ratings board listing suggests

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could get an imminent Switch 2 release.

Team Cherry's long-awaited game is now listed for Switch 2 with a February 5, 2026 release date, per the website of European ratings board

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. Hey, that's today!

Of course, Hollow Knight originally launched for Nintendo Switch back in 2018, though we learned a couple of months ago that the game

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. Now, it seems, that new version is moments away.

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, at 6am Pacific, 9am Eastern or 2pm *** time. This third-party game showcase will include 20 minutes of announcements featuring titles headed to Switch and Switch 2 that aren't developed by Nintendo itself — such as Hollow Knight.

Don't tune in expecting a new Mario game announcement, then, but do keep an eye out for more news on other upcoming Switch 2 releases such as this month's Resident Evil Requiem, and the promising-looking 007: First Light. Oh, and Hollow Knight now too. What will this new edition contain?

Alongside releasing Hollow Knight again on Switch 2, Team Cherry is now busy working on Sea of Sorrow, its first expansion to Hollow Knight: Silksong. Will we see more of this today as well? Time will tell, but as ever IGN will be reporting all of the major announcements live.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email protected] or find him on Bluesky

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