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
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
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and NetEase announced back-to-back new title releases, in a sign of intensified competition among the country’s top two video gaming publishers, as other Big Tech firms throw in the towel. NetEase, the country’s second-largest online gaming firm, plans to release about a dozen new games next week, including titles in … Read more
