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Hollow Knight: Silksong Expansion Coming Next Year - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.16.25
16 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This episode is sponsored by Ark Raiders, where you and your squad can explore future Earth and brave killer robots to secure the best loot on the planet. Ark Raiders is available now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X slash S, and PC. Today, in the nerdy news you need to know about, Team Cherry announces a Silksong expansion. We got more info on Divinity and Coven of the Chicken Foots.
Bruce Straley is here to co-host with me. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily.
what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for tuesday december 16th 2025 i'm one of your hosts greg miller alongside industry legend legend bruce straley hello bruce what's up greg good how are you it's good to see you again in a long time it's been a very very very very look very different no no one needs to go look it up and do the side by side no one needs to go see what i was i've
Last of a spoiler cast? I'm trying to think of the last time we were on camera together.
We might have been at a PSX or something. I think I had a controller problem during Uncharted 4, something like that, and then I told stories.
Yeah, that's a good one. Good to see you. It's good to see you. Thanks for having us. Thank you for coming up, of course. You flew in from LA this morning. That must have been an early flight.
Really early. Yeah, if I fall asleep halfway through the show, somebody prod me.
The adrenaline will hear. The adrenaline's here. Of course, in the chat, Laker's Head says, Who's the co-host?
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Chapter 2: What is the Silksong expansion and when is it coming?
Where have you been living? This is industry legend Bruce Straley. Of course, what? How far back do we want to go? Gex? You know what I mean?
Chapter 3: What new information has been revealed about Divinity?
He was working on Gex back in the day. Enter the gecko. Yeah, yeah. Last of us, of course. Uncharted. And now, Coven of the Chicken Foot.
Coven of the Chicken Foot.
Best name in video games. I don't know what happened to me.
Chapter 4: What details are available about Dead Island 3's development?
We're watching the trailer right now. If you haven't seen this, this is from Game Awards, of course, where you made your big debut. Of course, Wildflower being the studio. You guys announced that, what? Was it a year ago? More than that? A couple years. 22. Jeez Louise. When you announced it, I remember it. Now we have our first trailer, of course.
We thought the game was going to be a little bit faster than what it turned out to be. It turns out building a team from scratch is kind of hard.
I can imagine. I want to get into it. While the trailer runs, though, keep it up, Kev. I'll read you the synopsis I have from the press release. The dungeons have been plundered and the monsters long slain. As the heroes move on, an elderly witch quietly gets to work.
Coven of the Chicken Foot is a single-player adventure about the building of a bond between an elderly witch named Gertie and a peculiar creature who must learn to work together to fulfill an oath. As their trust deepens, a dark revelation of what they're up against will make them question their commitment to oath and to each other. That's a Greg game right there. Dark revelation.
That's a Greg-ass game right there. Dark revelation. This is what I was talking about. When we watched it, I think, during Game Awards, I was immediately like, oh, this is Bruce's game. Obviously, I mean, I can't wait. And then when we got to the end, people were like, I didn't really get it. Reading the thing about it, like, such a great premise.
Like, I'm always such a sucker for, this is the aftermath. The game already happened. Like, Moonlighter, right? Where it's like, you're running in a shop, but you go fight stuff. But it's like, this is, like, what's going on.
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of the post-apocalyptic of an adventure world. So she's coming in, the dungeons are all been plundered, the adventurers came in, the monsters have been slain, and she took an oath, and she's coming in basically to do her job to fulfill that oath.
You don't know what that is, but through exploring the world, we wanted to make sure that we set a world that had all the clues in there for you to reveal both in environmental storytelling as well as your interactions with the creature character. We call him the buddy internally. So if I say buddy, that's just a slip up.
That's not a real name.
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Chapter 5: How does the team behind Coven of the Chicken Foot envision the game?
And I was like, cool. I don't want to do any of that, but I have an idea. That's been lingering for many years. It's actually an idea from like way back when we started Jack and Daxter. Okay. And, and, and, and it's just kind of been lingering and it's even in the Naughty Dog art book. Like I drew some pictures and stuff.
Yeah.
There's like copyright.
No, no, it's so modified.
Like there's no lawsuits here, but the idea was there and it was just like, okay, there's some things I still want to prove out. Like, is there a way to tell stories that, that are more interactive with characters in a world rather than a story being told to me more about cut scenes, more about exposition, nothing wrong with that. Of course. I did a lot of that. Yeah.
For me, I wanted to go like, okay, could I like, it's like a spiritual successor of Ellie. everything we learned about Ellie and like making this character feel dynamic and responsive in combat. Wasn't the same Ellie that you saw inside of when she got pouty or when she got excited, et cetera, those are scripted moments.
And I wanted to know, could I create those kinds of moments dynamically, like in game, letting the player drive. Okay. Like kind of the story and the relationship with the character. I was like, okay, what if, and this one guy who was like, just started prototyping. He was amazing. Like he stood something up pretty quickly. And by the end of a year, we had three or four people on board, uh,
soul prop in it, you know? And, and then we had some demos that we were like, okay, let's go pitch. Like the, the game said to me like, okay, I want to get made. And I was like, okay, this is a game I would play. This is a game that I would be proud to make. And I think that I could like dig into. So yeah, I mean, that was it. That was the cliff that I dropped off.
I love that inspiration.
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Chapter 6: What unique character dynamics are explored in Coven of the Chicken Foot?
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Time for some news. Five items on the Roper Report. Bakers, does it?
Number one. Team Cherry announces a Silksong expansion, Hollow Knight refreshed, and more. We go to Team Cherry's blog. Hey, everyone. With Hollow Knight Silksong's launch year coming to a close, we wanted to take a moment and share a sneak peek of what we've been working on, what's available now, and what's coming in 2026.
But firstly, and most importantly, we wanted to say a huge thank you to all the players who have braved Silksong's distant and dangerous lands. That's over 7 million of you who have purchased the game alongside millions more playing on Xbox Game Pass. You're shaking your head.
That's a lot of numbers. You know, people actually started moving their ship dates because of Silksong. That's wild.
But coming to the chicken foot, you're going to put these numbers to shame, right? Your continued enthusiasm remains a massive motivator as we work towards expanding the game even further. The first big expansion is already well underway. New areas, bosses, tools, and more. Hornets Adventures continue in a nautically themed expansion coming free for all players next year.
We'll keep further details a secret for now, but expect additional info shortly before Hollow Knight Silksong Sea of Sorrow releases. Alongside Silksong's continued development, we haven't forgotten about its sibling, and today we're excited to announce that we're hard at work on an updated version of Hollow Knight for the Nintendo Switch 2.
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