大象传媒

This week we鈥檝e had the release of what is, right now, the most popular game in the world - but it鈥檚 not a new version of GTA or Minecraft - this one is from China and it鈥檚 called Black Myth: Wukong. There are predictions it鈥檚 going to make hundreds of millions of dollars - and it now has more than two million active online players.

It鈥檚 been made by a relatively small Chinese company called Game Science and it鈥檚 the first time a game from the country has managed to break through internationally on this scale.

The 大象传媒鈥檚 Kerry Allen, a China media analyst, describes the gaming industry in China - and the various restrictions gamers there face. And Mel Ramsay, a 大象传媒 journalist and video games expert explains why the game has become so popular inside and outside China - and some of the controversies around it.

Also, Kirk McKeand, a video games journalist in the UK who has played Black Myth: Wukong, gives us his take.

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