‘Keep Politics in Games’: Reactionary Circuits between the Anglo-European Sphere and China

Black Myth: Wukong (黑神话: 悟空; hereinafter BMW), an action role-playing game developed by the Chinese studio Game Science (游戏科学), became both a commercial and a cultural phenomenon after its release on 20 August 2024. BMW belongs to the ‘Souls-like’ genre, named after the Dark Souls series, whose punishing difficulty is by design: it appeals to […] The post ‘Keep Politics in Games’: Reactionary Circuits between the Anglo-European Sphere and China appeared first on Made in China Journal.

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