Don't mention COVID-19 either.
Black Myth Wukong developer GameScience has asked influencers not to mention “feminist propaganda”, COVID-19, or other “negative discourse” when streaming its game.
In an email sent to influencers and streamers who GameScience has offered to cover the game, the developer made the following requests (via Forbes):
- Do NOT insult other influencers or players.
- Do NOT use any offensive language/humour.
- Do NOT include politics, violence, nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishisation, and other content that instigates negative discourse.
- Do NOT use trigger words such as ‘quarantine’ or ‘isolation’ or ‘Covid-19’.
- Do NOT discuss content related to China’s game industry policies, opinions, news, etc.
It’s extremely likely the point about “feminist propaganda” has to do with a damning IGN report that focused on the culture at GameScience. Stevivor highlighted that report in our own review of the game.
While embargo guidelines are common with pre-release code — we, for instance, were requested to go light on narrative details especially after chapter 2 — these guidelines seem to be greater, and more politically-focused.
Aside from highlighting the potentially problematic culture at the studio, we said we found Black Myth Wukong to be quite capable… under the right expectations.
“The bottom line is this: adjust your expectations about Black Myth Wukong as a proper Soulslike, and jump on in if its setting and mythos interests you,” I wrote earlier this week.
The title is also making headlines as PS5 review code was not — and at the time of writing, has not — been made available to press for review, causing some to question its performance ahead of its release tomorrow, 21 August here in Australia.
Black Myth Wukong heads to Windows PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store alongside PS5 tomorrow. A delayed, undated Xbox Series release is also coming.
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Black Myth Wukong20 August 2024 (PC, PS5), 20 August 2025 (Xbox)PC PS5 Xbox Series S & X
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