{"id":597135,"date":"2019-02-14T06:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/?p=597135"},"modified":"2019-02-14T06:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:23:54","slug":"hollow-knight-silksong-will-be-free-to-all-kickstarter-backers-screenshots-original-sold-2-8-million-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/hollow-knight-silksong-will-be-free-to-all-kickstarter-backers-screenshots-original-sold-2-8-million-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollow Knight: Silksong will be free to all Kickstarter backers; screenshots; original sold 2.8 million copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Cherry shared some additional news tidbits about <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/hollow-knight-silksong-announced-for-switch-sequel-to-hollow-knight\/\">Hollow Knight: Silksong<\/a>, which they announced earlier today, in a new blog post. The original Hollow Knight started out as a Kickstarter project, and all 2158 backers will receive Hollow Knight: Silksong for free. Backers can choose to receive a code for either the Switch or the PC version.<\/p>\n<p>The blog post also reveals that the original Hollow Knight has sold a total of 2.8 million copies so far across all platforms. While we don&#8217;t have an exact breakdown by platform, we know that the game sold <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/hollow-knight-sells-over-250000-copies-on-switch-in-its-first-two-weeks\/\">250,000 copies<\/a> on Nintendo Switch in its first two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here are some in-game screenshots from Hollow Knight: Silksong:<\/p>\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-eae5c3c7f508a0a4ce52596f89b5cc4e-1\">\n\n    \t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/nggallery\/hollow-knight-silksong\/Silksong-Screenshots-_0001_19.png\"\n               title=\"\"\n               data-src=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/nggallery\/hollow-knight-silksong\/Silksong-Screenshots-_0001_19.png\"\n               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