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

Prepare your best clown makeup: Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight: Silksong, will be making a “special announcement” about the game on Thursday at 10:30AM ET. The announcement will be shown on Team Cherry’s YouTube channel, and the premiere link is already live.

It’s been a very long wait for solid Silksong news, so much so that the waiting spawned a clown meme. A release window announcement and subsequent delay didn’t help things. But Nintendo shared proof-of-life for Silksong earlier this year when it snuck a vague “2025” release date into its big Switch 2 Direct presentation.

And as of late, there have been a lot of hints that some big Silksong news is imminent: the game will be shown at both Nintendo and Xbox’s Gamescom booths this week, and on Monday, Gamescom Opening Night Live host Geoff Keighley tweeted a picture of himself wearing a clown nose. However, the game’s release date won’t be announced during Tuesday’s Opening Night Live show, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.

I’m unrealistically hoping that Silksong releases on Thursday. I’m on vacation next week, which would give me a perfect excuse to dive into the game. But if the release date is a little bit after, no biggie — maybe I’ll get lost in the original Hollow Knight one more time.