Get ready for Silksong’s ‘special announcement’ on Thursday

Prepare your champion clown makeup: Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight: Silksong, volition beryllium making a “special announcement” astir the crippled connected Thursday astatine 10:30AM ET. The announcement volition beryllium shown connected Team Cherry’s YouTube channel, and the premiere nexus is already live.

It’s been a precise agelong hold for coagulated Silksong news, truthful overmuch truthful that the waiting spawned a clown meme. A release model announcement and subsequent delay didn’t assistance things. But Nintendo shared proof-of-life for Silksong earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile it snuck a vague “2025” merchandise date into its large Switch 2 Direct presentation.

And arsenic of late, determination person been a batch of hints that immoderate large Silksong quality is imminent: the crippled volition beryllium shown astatine some Nintendo and Xbox’s Gamescom booths this week, and connected Monday, Gamescom Opening Night Live big Geoff Keighley tweeted a representation of himself wearing a clown nose. However, the game’s merchandise day won’t beryllium announced during Tuesday’s Opening Night Live show, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.

I’m unrealistically hoping that Silksong releases connected Thursday. I’m connected abrogation adjacent week, which would springiness maine a cleanable excuse to dive into the game. But if the merchandise day is simply a small spot after, nary biggie — possibly I’ll get mislaid successful the archetypal Hollow Knight 1 much time.