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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Get ready for Silksong’s ‘special announcement’ on Thursday]]></title>
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							<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Prepare your best clown makeup: Team Cherry, the developers of Hollow Knight: Silksong, will be making a "special announcement" about the game on Thursday at 10:30AM ET. The announcement will be shown on Team Cherry's YouTube channel, and the premiere link is already live. It's been a very long wait for solid Silksong news, so [&#8230;]]]></summary>
			
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<p class="has-text-align-none">Prepare your best clown makeup: Team Cherry, the developers of <em>Hollow Knight: Silksong</em>, will be making a "special announcement" about the game on Thursday at 10:30AM ET. The announcement will be shown on Team Cherry's YouTube channel, and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGeJwsUP9c">premiere link is already live</a>.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-none">It's been a very long wait for solid <em>Silksong</em> news, so much so that the waiting <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hollow-knight-silksong-fans-in-clown-makeup">spawned a clown meme</a>. A <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/12/22175400/hollow-knight-silksong-sequel-xbox-game-pass-trailer">release window announcement</a> and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/9/23717855/hollow-knight-silksong-delayed">subsequent delay</a> didn't help things. But Nintendo shared proof-of-life for <em>Silksong</em> earlier this year when it snuck <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/610766/hollow-knight-silksong-release-date-trailer">a vague "2025" release date</a> into its big Switch 2 Direct presentation.</p>
<p class="has-text-align-none">And as of late, there have been a lot of hints tha …</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/761451/hollow-knight-silksong-special-announcement-youtube">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[How to watch Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025]]></title>
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							<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's almost time for Geoff Keighley's next major gaming show. The 2025 edition of Gamescom's Opening Night Live event kicks off at 2PM ET today, and you can watch everything on the official livestream on The Game Awards' YouTube channel. Ahead of the main event, there will also be a preshow at 1:30PM ET featuring [&#8230;]]]></summary>
			
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<p class="has-text-align-none">It's almost time for Geoff Keighley's next major gaming show. The 2025 edition of Gamescom's Opening Night Live event kicks off at 2PM ET today, and you can watch everything on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/74oh7zD_jxI">official livestream</a> on The Game Awards' YouTube channel. Ahead of the main event, there will also be <a href="https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1956440942837141926">a preshow at 1:30PM ET</a> featuring "multiple new game announcements."</p>
<p class="has-text-align-none">Keighley has <a href="https://x.com/geoffkeighley/status/1956355195287323133">already teased</a> a bunch of the games that will be featured, including <em>Call of Duty: Black Ops 7</em>, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/games/685296/capcom-summer-game-fest-resident-evil-requiem-pragmata"><em>Resident Evil Requiem</em></a>, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/704597/ghost-of-yotei-ps5-gameplay-trailer"><em>Ghost of Y&#333;tei</em></a>, and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/games/684438/ninja-gaiden-4-hands-on-xbox-showcase-2025"><em>Ninja Gaiden 4</em></a>. It seems like there's even going to be an announcement about the highly anticipated <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/760922/real-silksong-news-is-imminent"><em>Hollow</em> <em>Knight: Silksong</em></a>, which has been in dev …</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/761027/gamescom-opening-night-live-2025-geoff-keighley-how-to-watch">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>
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