Hollow Knight fans have been through the ringer this year, as every big gaming event passes by without a single mention of Silksong to be seen. The only time that Silksong is actually mentioned, it's usually to poke fun at the perpetually tormented fanbase, or to let fans know not to get their hopes up and to start lowering expectations.
Fans have been trawling social media for the smallest hints of some official news, and earlier today, it seemed as though Steam had provided. First spotted by Reddit user Frequent-Rest-2171 (thanks GamesRadar), an official update on Steam's backend appeared to imply that Silksong had recently been undergoing "beta testing." After a quick trip to SteamDB, fans began getting their hopes up once they discovered this wasn't one of the Silksong subreddit's cruel practical jokes.
In that same Reddit thread, you'll find dozens of fans hoping that this might be the small update that we've all been hoping for, with the discovery described as "huge," along with plenty of skepticism about it even being real in the first place. This is a very understandably jaded fanbase.
Unfortunately, that hope was pretty short-lived, as it was quickly discovered after a...
