Hollow Knight followers have been by means of the wringer not too long ago, with cryptic X/Twitter exercise from one developer sparking rampant hypothesis that the hotly anticipated follow-up Hollow Knight: Silksong will lastly re-emerge at Nintendo’s Change 2 Direct in April — and doubtlessly even launch on Nintendo’s next-gen console as a timed launch unique.
It began when supersleuths on the Hollow Knight subreddit observed that on January 15, co-director of Workforce Cherry William Pellen had modified his Twitter/X profile image to a image of a chocolate cake. Alongside this, Pellen tweeted: “one thing massive is coming. preserve your eyes closed tomorrow.”
On the time, Nintendo’s Change 2 reveal was rumored for January 16, and so it proved — that was the day Nintendo lastly introduced the Change 2. Had Pellen actually requested followers to maintain an eye fixed out for the Change 2 reveal? In that case, why?
Fans then reverse-searched the image of the cake, main them to a recipe for Brooklyn Blackout Cake on cooking web site Bon Appétit. The date the recipe was revealed: April 2, 2024. The date of the Nintendo Change 2 Direct is April 2, 2025.
Fans additionally puzzled what Pellen’s new X/Twitter deal with, @everydruidwaswr, meant, if something. Redditor Representative-True speculated that the “wr” in “everydruidwaswr” was the beginning of a phrase, maybe “mistaken,” or maybe stands for “was mistaken,” and pointed to the Druid of the Moss Temple Silksong NPC as proof of… one thing.
Pellen had a new X/Twitter identify to go together with the brand new deal with and profile image: “little bomey.” Fans observed Little Boomey is a wine from Southern Australia, the place Workforce Cherry is predicated, however the spelling is totally different. The upshot of all this was that some followers thought Pellen had kicked off a Silksong alternate actuality sport (ARG), however over the weekend feedback appeared to pour chilly water on this principle.
First, Hollow Knight YouTuber fireb0rn tweeted to say Workforce Cherry advertising and marketing and publishing chief Matthew ‘Leth’ Griffin had acquired in contact “to verify there was no Silksong ARG and that the adjustments to William’s account and the tweet had been a nothingburger. Apologies to have misled everybody. The cake was a lie.”
And in a post on the Hollow Knight Discord, Griffin backed this up, saying: “It wasn’t [an ARG]. However it was nonetheless some spectacular sleuthing abilities by the followers… like ya’ll are WAY past these 2020 riddles now.”
Griffin himself adopted up to answer one fan who puzzled if Workforce Cherry had given up on Hollow Knight: Silksong. “Sure the sport is actual, progressing and will launch,” Griffin tweeted.
This has finished little to calm all of the hypothesis, as you possibly can maybe think about. And on the time of this text’s publication, Pellen’s tweet stays on-line. Pellen himself has but to clarify no matter his X/Twitter exercise is all about, both.
It’s price remembering that when Hollow Knight: Silksong was introduced, Workforce Cherry confirmed the launch platforms as Home windows, Mac, Linux, and Nintendo Change. However that was six years in the past. We now have a few months to search out out what this all means, however within the meantime, take a look at every thing introduced at Nintendo’s Change 2 reveal.
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