"Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Team Cherry The biggest video game online 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."
"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. User reports on outage-checker Downdetector rose sharply on release, peaking at 3,750 before falling gradually over the following hour. It led some angry fans to criticise the platform, with one calling the outage "ridiculous" and others saying it was "stupid""
"Meanwhile, Humble Bundle, another digital storefront, briefly told visitors in a note on its site on Thursday the game was no longer available during the high demand - which has since been resolved. It led Christopher Larkin, a composer who worked on Hollow Knight and its sequel, to joke on X the game may have "crashed the internet". Meanwhile another X user, @haydenschiff, posted an image showing several gamers encountering Steam error codes while trying to share their gameplay on Twitch:"
Major online game stores crashed during the release of Hollow Knight: Silksong as they struggled with high demand. Thousands of users reported being unable to buy the PC version on Steam after the 15:00 BST release, with errors persisting until around 17:30. Users also faced difficulties purchasing on Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox stores. Outage reports on Downdetector peaked at 3,750 and then fell over the following hour. Some storefronts, including Humble Bundle, temporarily removed the game during high demand. Fans criticised the lack of pre-order options, and members of the game's team and community joked about or shared error screenshots on social platforms.
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