Hollow Knight: Silksong has finally launched after nearly seven years of waiting, but it's such a big deal that it actually managed to momentarily break Steam for everybody.
For the past six years, Hollow Knight fans have been through the absolute wringer. Since what was originally going to just be an expansion for Hollow Knight was announced back in 2019, Team Cherry has been basically silent about the game, leaving fans wondering when the heck it was releasing after so many years of waiting.
Well, today, September 3, marks the end of the long waits, the Silkposting, and the endless clown costumes, as Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally upon us. In fact, as of the time of writing, Silksong has just gone live on all storefronts, and it's already making as massive an impact as you'd expect, just not in the right way.
Before Silksong went live earlier today, it had over 100,000 people just sitting watching it on Twitch and getting ready for launch. That should have told us how big a deal Silksong was going to be, but things got even more interesting as we finally reached 3pm, the time that Silksong was supposed to go live (in...