{"id":200290,"date":"2025-09-04T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200290\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:12:11","slug":"silksong-fans-have-brought-down-the-eshop-steam-and-xbox-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/200290\/","title":{"rendered":"Silksong fans have brought down the eShop, Steam and Xbox Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Hollow Knight: Silksong <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/hollow-knight-silksong-will-be-out-on-september-4-143856097.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:is officially available for purchase;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is officially available for purchase<\/a>, after six long years of waiting. The anticipation is at a fever pitch. Fans have swarmed to Steam to purchase the game and, well, it looks like they overloaded the system and shut it down. The same thing seems to be <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/nintendo-eshop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:happening to the Nintendo eShop;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">happening to the Nintendo eShop<\/a> and the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/xbox-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Xbox Store;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Xbox Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">Multiple <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kotaku\/status\/1963607230944510211\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:social media users;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">social media users<\/a> and data from <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/steam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:services like DownDetector;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">services like DownDetector<\/a> are noting that the service is down for many people, with a massive spike in reports pretty much the moment Silksong became available. This could be a coincidence but it&#8217;s probably not. Silksong is one of the hottest releases in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">In any event, we&#8217;ve reached out to Steam and will update this post when we hear back or when the platform has returned. Congrats to those who already got their hands on the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 engadget-charcoal\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight: Silksong is officially available for purchase, after six long years of waiting. The anticipation is at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[110870,105756,110871,110869,158,67,132,68,110872],"class_list":{"0":"post-200290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-fever-pitch","9":"tag-hollow-knight","10":"tag-nintendo-eshop","11":"tag-silksong","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-xbox-store"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115147619997145651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}