Uh oh, Geoff Keighley is teasing Hollow Knight: Silksong at Gamescom Opening Night Live. Is it…lastly time? Dare we hope?
First time? 🤡
See you tomorrow for @gamescom ONL. pic.twitter.com/59ef5sFysJ
— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) August 18, 2025
If that above put up means nothing to you, you have managed to keep away from the Hollow Knight: Silksong fervor for years now, someway. Since 2021, Hollow Knight followers have used pictures and emojis of clowns (and particularly, the one proper beneath) to goof about their fixed hope for information about Silksong, particularly round large displays like Nintendo Directs, The Sport Awards, or Summer time Sport Fest. Each time a brand new presentation rolled round, Silksong followers would put up clown pictures and joke about placing on clown make-up, successfully acknowledging that it was cartoonish to hope for Silksong information however that they had been hoping anyway.
After all, Keighley may simply be posting himself in a clown outfit for the heck of it, however I can not think about that will be advisable given the fervor of the Silksong viewers. Earlier this 12 months, followers went nuts over a chocolate cake recipe, in a transfer which went as far as to drive the builders to make a press release, so teasing that viewers most likely is not the most effective concept.
Nonetheless, Keighley’s tease looks like a reasonably certain factor. We all know Silksong is popping out in 2025 barring any surprising delays, and there is a demo of the sport playable on the present flooring of Gamescom this week. We additionally know, through a leak, that the ROG Xbox Ally will launch on October 16, and Xbox’s Sarah Bond has beforehand said that Silksong can be on the system when it launched. If everybody’s telling the reality and there have been no last-minute modifications, meaning Silksong needs to be out within the subsequent two months someday. And that will additionally imply we’re due for an precise, actual, confirmed launch date any second now. Who’s obtained a giant showcase occurring the place such an announcement would make an enormous splash? Keighley, in fact.
Now, there’s at all times an opportunity that we’re all simply placing on our clown make-up right now solely to be disillusioned as soon as once more tomorrow. Seize a slice of chocolate cake, stick on that rubber nostril, and let’s lock in for Opening Night Live tomorrow. Silksong silksoon?
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