This was the big one. The Xbox showcase is a bombastic event full of multimillion dollar games, but I don’t think a single one was more ravenously anticipated than Hollow Knight: Silksong. Would it be at this year’s not-E3? Would we finally learn when we’ll be able to play it? Yes, and… no.
After years of developing in near-silence, Team Cherry has emerged from Hallownest to deliver a new Silksong trailer at the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase, and reveal that it’s coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch.
What we didn’t get is a release date.
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Silksong, or even gotten any new information about it. Edge magazine ran a feature on Silksong in December 2020, and since then it’s been a dry year-and-a-half. This new trailer shows a whole lot of Silksong protagonist Hornet in action, with a few big words teasing elements of the game: Hunt, Survive, Vanquish. Aka: kill little things, navigate a treacherous environment, kill big things.
Sadly, we still don’t know when Silksong is coming. The trailer ended without a release date, or even a year to give us some idea of when we’ll be playing it.
