{"id":19993,"date":"2025-09-05T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/hollow-knight-silksong-launch-crashes-online-gaming-stores\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:37:14","slug":"hollow-knight-silksong-launch-crashes-online-gaming-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/hollow-knight-silksong-launch-crashes-online-gaming-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight: Silksong launch crashes online gaming stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam, the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store among those that crashed on Friday, unable to cope with demand for the Australian-made game<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An enigmatic three-member game developing team from Adelaide has created chaos on global online gaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Steam and other major storefronts including Nintendo\u2019s eShop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store crashed on Friday, unable to cope with the demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed 2017 indie hit Hollow Knight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/sep\/05\/hollow-knight-silksong-launch-crashes-online-gaming-stores-popularity-demand-australian-game\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/26950369fe4b03c2268620eb9815c8a246aa0b06\/723_0_1800_1440\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=92580ee7450e297dc860e4bd24f5684e\" title=\"Hollow Knight: Silksong launch crashes online gaming stores\" \/>Steam, the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store among those that crashed on Friday, unable to cope with demand for the Australian-made game<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nAn enigmatic three-member game developing team from Adelaide has created chaos on global online gaming platforms.<br \/>\nSteam and other major storefronts including Nintendo\u2019s eShop, PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store crashed on Friday, unable to cope with the demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong, the long-awaited sequel to the critically acclaimed 2017 indie hit Hollow Knight. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam, the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store among those that crashed on Friday, unable to cope with demand for the Australian-made game Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An enigmatic three-member game developing team from Adelaide has created chaos on global online gaming platforms. Steam and other major storefronts including &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/05\/hollow-knight-silksong-launch-crashes-online-gaming-stores\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hollow Knight: Silksong launch crashes online gaming stores<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}