Nintendo Announces Indie World Showcase for This Week, and Hollow Knight: Silksong Fans Have Hope Once Again

Hollow Knight: Silksong is an indie game, right? Perhaps, then, we’ll spot it astatine this week’s Indie World Showcase, conscionable announced by Nintendo.

The caller Indie World Showcase is acceptable for this Thursday, August 7 astatine 6am PT / 2pm UK time, Nintendo announced. Expect 15 minutes of caller announcements and updates connected indie games coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and the OG Nintendo Switch.

The showcase comes blistery connected the heels of past month's Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, which Silksong’s infamous fanbase struggled to header with aft yet different no-show. Perhaps now, with Silksong confirmed to beryllium playable astatine Microsoft’s Xbox booth astatine gamescom aboriginal this month, and so astatine an Australian depository successful September, present is the clip for a merchandise date,

Of course, Silksong fans person been present earlier — aggregate times — truthful the possibly inevitable disappointment whitethorn proceed until the adjacent large showcase (Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live during gamescom week). So it goes.

Nintendo fans, meanwhile, are hoping that the institution has a first-party Direct up its sleeve. It’s done the Partner Direct, and present this Indie showcase is confirmed. What astir a due Nintendo Direct? Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Kirby Air Riders — some inactive down for 2025 — aren't going to beforehand themselves. And however astir that 3D Mario game, Nintendo?

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