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China’s record-breaking, Tencent-backed ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ game gets a sequel

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China’s record-breaking, Tencent-backed ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ game gets a sequel
Tencent-backed start-up Game Science will retain much of what made the 2024 game such a hit, staying within the action role-playing genre. Photo: Game Science
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Game Science, the start-up behind one of last year’s biggest new role-playing games, is working on a successor in the series, Black Myth: Zhong Kui.

Introduced at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany, a new teaser trailer showcases Game Science’s signature penchant for high-fidelity graphics and taps Chinese folklore again to add a daunting new character to the fantasy universe initiated by Black Myth: Wukong a year ago.

Zhong, much like Wukong before him, is a god from ancient myths, with a red beard, dark skin and glowing eyes.

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