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Is Silksong everything we hoped? 5 PC Gamer writers react to the first hours of Team Cherry's extraordinarily hyped sequel

Were those six years of Silksanity well spent?

PC Gamer

Through dark magic, one dev looks to have captured the magic of Sekiro in a gorgeous 2D game – I've followed it for a year, it finally has a Steam page, and I hammered the Wishlist button into dust

False Princess Iruruu finally approaches

GamesRadar

Hollow Knight Silksong review bombing is underway for an unexpected reason

There's always something.

Destructoid

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Hollow Knight: Silksong’s launch beats Battlefield 6’s Steam record

At long, long last, Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here — and it has absolutely taken off on the Steam charts, even surpassing the Battlefield 6 Open Beta's player counts.

Windows Central

Somehow, MindsEye is not dead: A new update promises to improve performance by removing 'ambient rubbish'

A beefy new patch went live today, and Build a Rocket Boy says another one is in the works.

PC Gamer

"We were scared as hell when Silksong was announced to release on our day," indie dev says, but "now it seems it was a blessing in disguise"

Jetrunner benefitted from the Hollow Knight black hole

GamesRadar

Final Fantasy-style RPG Lost Soul Aside gets extensive new patch players hope will bring a Cyberpunk 2077 "moment" and melt away some of those Mixed Steam reviews

Godspeed

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Legendary Japanese racing game dev goes under the radar for 18 years, quietly emerges to drop the best-rated Steam racer of 2025, and gives fans 20 days to grab it at a hefty discount before the price jumps to $50

Tokyo Xtreme Racer's big comeback is almost complete

GamesRadar

Silksong News: New Game Just Broke Steam - Here's What You Should Know Before Buying the Game

Hollow Knight: Silksong overwhelmed global digital stores minutes after release, leaving thousands unable to buy the game due to server crashes.

International Business Times UK

Silksong crashes Steam, Nintendo eShop on release day — highly anticipated indie video game took six years to arrive and is already one of the most played games ever on Steam

Hollow Knight: Silksong has become one of the biggest releases in recent video game history. The game crashed digital storefronts worldwide on release, and soon became the #3 most-played game on Steam behind Counter-Strike and Dota 2.

Tom’s Hardware

Hollow Knight: Silksong has barely been out for a day, and players are already complaining about its difficulty level – ' I feel like they’re really overusing double damage'

Some players are finding Hollow Knight: Silksong a little too difficult.

TechRadar

Valve's 'Steam Frame' is looking more like a standalone VR headset to take on Meta Quest — what we know

Valve's mysterious 'Steam Frame' looks to be a standalone VR headset thanks to a new leak, and it's rumored to launch by the end of 2025 to take on Meta Quest headsets.

Tom’s Guide

Subnautica 2 takes the crown on Steam's Top Wishlists chart after Hollow Knight Silksong finally releases, despite its $250 million lawsuit

Steam has a new most-wishlisted game

GamesRadar

Despite bringing Steam to its knees, Silksong attracted more day one players than the Battlefield 6 open beta

After a single day, Silksong currently ranks as the seventh highest peak concurrent player count for a single-player game on Steam.

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The Guardian - AU

Hollow Knight: Silksong launch crashes online gaming stores

Steam, the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store among those that crashed on Friday, unable to cope with demand for the Australian-made game

Windows Central

"There was a staff reduction" — 2K quietly announces layoffs at Civilization 7 dev Firaxis amid Hollow Knight: Silksong launch hype, but won't say how many

Civilization 7's Firaxis Games is quietly going through layoffs in the midst of the loud, attention-grabbing launch hype for Hollow Knight: Silksong.

PC Gamer

Silksong is so popular, even people in the Piracy subreddit are encouraging others to just buy it: 'If we can afford to support them, we should'

No one escapes Skongmania.

PC Gamer

The Silksong subreddit spent launch day sharing boss strats for Steam's 'cart phase', banishing each other to the Skongless year of 2019, and—let's see—posting hole

Silksanity is dead. Long live Silksanity.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong breaks 535,000 concurrent players on Steam, making it one of the biggest launches of all time and nearly 8x bigger than the first game

That's a big bug

Windows Central

Helldivers 2’s CEO talks potential Steam Deck support — but what about the Xbox Ally?

Helldivers 2’s CEO has spoken about potential Steam Deck support, sparking discussion about handheld gaming. But with no Xbox Play Anywhere or cross-progression, what does this mean for the Xbox Ally?

PC Gamer

Silksong already has the 18th highest all-time peak player count in Steam history as it draws over 500,000 concurrent players in its first 4 hours

Happy Silktember everyone.

Tom’s Guide

Steam was down — 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' launch caused major headaches

Steam experienced a major outage earlier today and slow load times as Hollow Knight fans took to the PC gaming platform in droves to play the highly anticipated sequel.

Tom’s Guide

Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here — here's how to get your copy

The hotly anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here. Here's where you can snag a copy

PC Gamer

Silksong crashed Steam the nanosecond it released, but checkout is finally working

Whoops.

GamesRadar

Hollow Knight: Silksong has been out for 120 minutes and already has over 1,500 "Overwhelmingly Positive" Steam reviews, so either y'all are really fast or those reviews don't actually mean much

"Game is full of bugs," says one positive review

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