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China’s ‘Wukong’ Hit Sells 10 Million Copies in Three Days
- Adventure title has one of the fastest game launches ever
- Strong debut signals China’s games industry turning a corner
A man plays 'Black Myth: Wukong' during its launch day in Hangzhou on Aug. 20.
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Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese-made video game backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd., took just 83 hours to sell 10 million copies, one of the fastest debuts in industry history.
It reached the milestone by Friday evening Beijing time after being released on Tuesday, developer Game Science said on X. Its peak concurrent users, which counts the number of people playing at one time around the world, reached 3 million across PC and PlayStation platforms.
