Xbox Has a New Hollow Knight: Silksong Demo Playable at Gamescom

Long-awaited indie sequel Hollow Knight: Silksong volition beryllium publically playable astatine Gamescom connected Microsoft's Xbox booth, earlier its highly-anticipated launch, owed sometime earlier the extremity of 2025.

Silksong sounds similar it volition beryllium 1 of the booth's biggest draws, alongside a archetypal nationalist outing for the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X — the third-party portable Xbox consoles besides retired aboriginal this year.

The Outer Worlds 2, Xbox's biggest first-party crippled for the remainder of this twelvemonth that's not Call of Duty, meantime gets a "theater experience", which sounds similar it'll beryllium hands-off demo.

In presumption of different playable stuff, well, Obsidian's plot sequel Grounded 2 volition beryllium there, if you don't privation to conscionable play the Game Preview mentation astatine home. More excitingly, Ninja Gaiden 4 gets a archetypal nationalist hands-on appearance, portion Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is determination with an "exciting metropolis update".

Keen to play the caller Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC? Us too, though connected the Gamescom amusement level Microsoft is simply showing the basal game. (It's precise bully but, uh, we played it past year.)

From non-Xbox studios, meanwhile, Microsoft has a agelong database of playable demos — including the likes of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater and Borderlands 4, positive the Xbox versions of Final Fantasy 16 and Final Fantasy 7 Remake Integrade.

If you're visiting Gamescom, the world's biggest video games amusement successful presumption of its nationalist attendance, Xbox volition reside successful its accustomed location wrong Hall 7 of the Koelnmesse successful Cologne, Germany from August 21 to 24. Alternatively, support an oculus connected IGN for each of our sum nonstop from the amusement floor.

Silksong developer Team Cherry precocious said that its crippled was connected way to motorboat aboriginal successful 2025 but earlier the holidays.

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