BEIJING (Reuters) -Game Science, backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, surprised games enthusiasts on Wednesday by releasing a trailer for a follow-up to last year’s smash hit “Black Myth: Wukong”.<\/p>\n
The new action role-playing game, “Black Myth: Zhong Kui”, is the second entry in the “Black Myth” series, inspired by a mythical ghost-catching figure in ancient Chinese folklore, Game Science said.<\/p>\n
The less than two-minute trailer features Zhong Kui, an imposing red-bearded character, riding a majestic tiger with two demons carrying a giant sword.<\/p>\n
The video has so far racked up over nine million clicks on Bilibili, a Chinese online video sharing website. It was simultaneously debuted during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase in Germany’s Cologne, where highly-anticipated upcoming gaming titles were presented.<\/p>\n
Game Science did not say when it would launch the game and no in-game footage was made available as the project is still in early development, the company said on X.<\/p>\n
Fans voiced excitement on Chinese social media following the success of “Black Myth: Wukong”, which depicted the magical monkey king from the Ming Dynasty epic “Journey to the West”.<\/p>\n
Some, however, were perplexed why the developer chose to embark on a new project while many are still waiting for new downloadable content (DLC) for the Wukong game.<\/p>\n
Game Science founder Feng Ji responded on Weibo: “A DLC would certainly be a good option, but at this moment, what we really want is to create a brand-new Black Myth game – with new heroes, new gameplay, new visuals, new technology and a new story.”<\/p>\n
Game Science revealed the first gameplay footage of “Black Myth: Wukong” exactly five years ago, attracting millions of views and thrusting the then little-known studio into the limelight. Wukong was officially released on August 20, 2024.<\/p>\n
The game topped Steam’s most-played games chart with 1.4 million concurrent player hours after its release and went on to sell millions of copies.<\/p>\n
Wukong has been widely lauded as China’s first AAA game – projects with high development costs, long production cycles and immense investment. It has ignited strong interest in more such games from China and been applauded by Beijing as a way of promoting Chinese culture.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Shi Bu, Ethan Wang and Brenda Goh. Editing by Mark Potter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (Reuters) -Game Science, backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, surprised games enthusiasts on Wednesday by releasing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50135,49,48,50136,61,45241,15191,50134],"class_list":["post-83741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-action-role-playing-game","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-game-science","tag-technology","tag-tencent","tag-wukong","tag-zhong-kui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}