Hollow Knight: Silksong is day one on Xbox Game Pass, no clown makeup required

Hollow Knight Silksong
(Image credit: Xbox/Team Cherry)

After much waiting, Hollow Knight: Silksong has finally debuted a brand new trailer at today's Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase.

Fans sure have been kept waiting for a new glimpse of Team Cherry's eagerly anticipated sequel, and that patience has finally been rewarded. The brand new trailer for Hollow Knight: Silksong showed off a few quick shots of gameplay, though concrete new details were light on the ground.

Sadly, no release date was confirmed, but the game will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass.

This new trailer for Hollow Knight Silksong follows hot on the heels of some pretty interesting teases. It was just earlier this week that Summer Game Fest host Geoff Keighley and Team Cherry marketing boss Matthew Griffin had some fun teasing fans with a small interaction on Twitter.

After Keighley initially tweeted that there's "nothing like the feeling of seeing a good world premiere arrive in your inbox," Silksong fans noticed Griffin replied with "I approve of the tease." Considering how many years Hollow Knight: Silksong has spent skulking in the shadows, you can probably imagine how eager fans took this as a huge hint toward the game popping up at the showcase.

Well, the tease actually turned into something concrete, although Silksong never actually surfaced at the showcase that it was originally being teased for. After all this time waiting, they probably deserve it.

Head over to our E3 2022 schedule guide for a full list of all the other events taking place over the next few weeks and beyond.

Hirun Cryer

Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.

Read more
Hollow Knight
6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games"
Hollow Knight: Silksong screenshot from the announcement trailer, showing the Knight battling an enemy in a gloomy environment.
Hollow Knight Silksong: Everything we know so far
Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight: Silksong fans reach as-yet-unheard-of levels of cope as the Metroidvania's Nintendo Switch store page briefly disappears
Hollow Knight
The Hollow Knight: Silksong ARG turned out to be us clutching at straws, but dev says: "the game is real, progressing and will release"
Hollow Knight
Day 1,251: Hollow Knight's strongest soldier has been fighting the boss version of Silksong star Hornet every day for over 3 years, and watching them master the Metroidvania in real time is truly amazing
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong developer teases us with a bunch of cryptic Nintendo Switch 2 clues including a cake, Imagine Dragons, and some Australian wine
Latest in Action
Yasuke looking over the water to a shrine during sunset in Assassin's Creed Shadows
Assassin's Creed Shadows has an entire island stuffed with adorable kittens you need to check out, and it's based on an actual Japanese cat paradise
Assassin's Creed Shadows review gameplay showing Yasuke overlooking the sea and lush green scenery
Assassin's Creed Shadows has already "surpassed the launches of AC Origins and Odyssey" with 2 million players and counting
God of War 3
God of War PSP's seamless loading was only possible because a Jak & Daxter game was also running in the background
MindsEye
GTA veteran's new open-world game will belong to everyone – almost like a wild mix of Roblox and Minecraft servers: "It won't just be ours"
Bill getting teary-eyed in The Last of Us
A potential The Last of Us season 1 plot hole has sparked a lot of debate among the fans
Assassin's Creed Shadows Naoe "justice must be served" or "killing them isn't justice" Yaya and Mistumune choice
Should you side with Mitsumune or Yaya in Assassin's Creed Shadows?
Latest in News
A screenshot from MindsEye showing a character leaning out of a car, shooting another car with a gun.
GTA veteran says the games industry needs to "get smarter" about what people actually want: "There are so many games, and I think we're starting to feel the effects"
Posing with a rifle in the Fallout 76 Ghoul update
Fallout 76's art director "had to fight really hard" so Bethesda would make the MMO's map bigger than Skyrim's
Minecraft movie image of Jack Black as steve
Don't expect Minecraft to go free-to-play anytime soon, as Mojang says "It doesn't really work with the way we built it"
Yasuke looking over the water to a shrine during sunset in Assassin's Creed Shadows
Assassin's Creed Shadows has an entire island stuffed with adorable kittens you need to check out, and it's based on an actual Japanese cat paradise
phase zero key art showing zombies in a hallway
Former Witcher 3 and Dying Light devs reveal their Resident Evil homage, complete with PS1-style fixed cameras
Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis System was only created because WB Games wanted something to combat Batman Arkham Asylum's second-hand sales, exec says