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No, Silksong hasn't been in development hell, hype skyrocketed sales of the original game to give Team Cherry financial freedom


Earlier today, Team Cherry finally announced a release date for its long-awaited Hollow Knight sequel Silksong. After s…

"Even at that point we were recognising that it was going to become another giant thing to rival the scale of Hollow Knight or probably exceed it," Team Cherry co-founder Ari Gibson told Bloomberg. It's in stark contrast to so many other studios at the moment hell-bent on chasing trends and generating cash in the face of rising development costs, which has inevitably resulted in the mass layoffs across the industry in the last couple of years. At the least, it follows games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as a project with a relatively small team and a huge amount of passion finding big success, where so many AAA studios and publishers have stumbled.

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