Fans
of Hollow Knight have been eagerly awaiting the sequel after the first
game's release in 2017, which has sold more than 15 million copies
worldwide according to the developer.
Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch
Liv McMahonTechnology reporter
Image credit: Team Cherry
The biggest online video game stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong - one of the most-anticipated games of the year.
Thousands of users reported they were unable to buy the game on PC store Steam after its release at 15:00 BST, with errors persisting until around 17:30.
Social media users also shared their difficulties trying to purchase Silksong on other platforms, including the Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox game stores.
- The Hollow Knight games were created by a tiny, three-person indie developer called Team Cherry, which is based in Adelaide, Australia.
- Both games are single-character side-scrolling adventures set in a fantasy world of fighter insects.The latest game focuses on a sword-wielding princess called Hornet, who was a supporting character in the first game.
One of Team Cherry's developers, William Pellen, was quoted in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as saying that the Hollow Knight games had a distinctive style that did not age.
"The satisfying thing with Hollow Knight
was that we were making something that was to our tastes, and that meant
that we were making things that were slightly different. It was
inspired by older games, so its qualities were slightly different from
the more modern games of the time.
"In a way that it's sort of outside of time, hopefully Silksong can achieve that too."
Additional reporting by Tessa Wong.
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