China goes ape over culture-boosting 'Black Myth: Wukong' video game

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese state media threw its back behind China's most successful single-player video game to date, saying its adaptation of the Ming dynasty epic "Journey to the West" would force Western players to learn more about the country's culture.

"Black Myth: Wukong", based on a mythical monkey king from a Chinese literary classic who can shape-shift into humans, animals and inanimate objects, was being played on Wednesday by 2.2 million concurrent players on Steam, a major online gaming platform, a day after its release.

"Chinese players in the past have gone through this process of cross-cultural understanding, now it is the turn of overseas players to learn... and understand Chinese traditional culture," China Central Television wrote in a blog.

By Joe Cash.

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