Tencent-backed ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ makes game history, taking Chinese media by storm

Chinese made game Black Legend: Wukong The game was played on Wednesday by 2.2 million concurrent players on the online gaming platform. steamOne day after its release.

The game, developed by Game Science – a Tencent (OTCPK:TCEHY) (OTCPK:TCTZF)-backed startup – is A single-player game based on a legendary Monkey King from a Chinese literary classic who can transform into humans, animals, and inanimate objects.

Chinese state media has thrown its weight behind China’s most successful single-player video game to date, noting that its adaptation of a Ming Dynasty novel “Journey to the West“It will force Western players to learn more about the culture of the Asian nation,” Reuters Reported.

“This release represents a bold foray by Chinese game developers into a market long dominated by third-tier Western titles,” Xinhua News Agency said in an editorial on Wednesday.

The Chinese media added that with this hack, the default language of the AAA game is no longer English but Chinese.

Triple A, or AAA, is a rating term used to describe games with the largest development budgets and levels of promotion.

Pre-sales of the game began in June and had reached 400 million yuan (about $56 million) as of Tuesday, when the game was launched, the report added, citing Citi.

Black Legend: Wukong The game has racked up over 2.1 million concurrent players on Steam when it launched globally on Tuesday. That’s more than the popularity of other single-player titles like cyberpunk 2077 and Ring of FireBloomberg News Reported On Tuesday, citing data tracker SteamDB.

In the past few months, several major games have been launched, including Tencent’s Dungeon & Fighter Mobileor DnF MobileNTES Naraka: Land of Point Mobile And Mihoyo Zone Zero, Zzzz.

Black Legend: Wukong The game has become so popular that its hashtags have garnered 1.7 billion views on Chinese social media platform Weibo (WB).

“Chinese players have gone through this process of cross-cultural understanding in the past, and now it is the turn of foreign players to learn… and understand traditional Chinese culture,” China Central Television said in a blog post, according to Reuters.