But in the run up to the game’s release, video streamers reported receiving a document from co-publishers Hero Games warning them to avoid topics including “feminist propaganda” or “politics” when they received a passkey to play the game, an email exchange showed. Gamers were also warned against any reference to “Covid-19”, “isolation” or “quarantine” – … Read more
Four years after Game Science first revealed a teaser of Black Myth: Wukong, the much-awaited action RPG is finally out to play. Inspired by one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, Black Myth: Wukong has been on wishlists for years. The game puts the players into the shoes … Read more
He added that his bricks-and-mortar store on Tuesday received more than dozen inquiries about the PS5’s availability. Sony’s flagship store in Shanghai’s upscale Huangpu district on Tuesday saw its stock of six freshly delivered PS5 consoles quickly snapped up, as a stream of shoppers helped lift total sales that day above normal levels, according to … Read more
Black Myth: Wukong, China’s first AAA video game, has broken the record to become the most-played title of its kind on its first day of release on the digital games store Steam, marking a major milestone for the Chinese developers. The action role-playing game, developed by the Tencent Holdings-backed studio Game Science and inspired by … Read more
Hangzhou-based Game Science spent six years developing the game, which is the first in China to bear the industry’s informal triple-A classification, signifying a large-budget, high-profile game produced and distributed by well-known publishers. Not all of the interest in the game has been positive, with some misgivings expressed at gaming interest website IGN over claims … Read more
China’s first triple-A video game, Black Myth: Wukong, has emerged as a big hit more than two months before its official release, as initial domestic pre-orders were about 16 times oversubscribed as of Tuesday. An action role-playing game based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West published in the 16th century, Black Myth: … Read more
The mobile version of Dungeon & Fighter Online, the personal computer (PC) game developed by Nexon subsidiary Neople, on May 22 outstripped the daily revenue of those two high-performing Tencent games on the China App Store in just the second day of its domestic release, according to data from Chinese app analytics platform Qimai. DnF … Read more
Game Science As if I wasn’t already looking forward to Black Myth: Wukong enough, Nvidia just announced that the game is getting the full RTX treatment when it launches on August 20. We see new games with ray tracing and Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) all the time, but Black Myth: Wukong is joining a very small … Read more
