{"id":66447,"date":"2024-08-28T13:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/black-myth-wukong-game-controversy-china-streamers"},"modified":"2024-08-28T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:32:52","slug":"chinas-hit-game-black-myth-faces-backlash-after-telling-players-not-to-discuss-feminist-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66447","title":{"rendered":"Hit game Black Myth: Wukong faces backlash after telling players not to discuss \u2018feminist propaganda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streamers were given list of topics to avoid also including news and politics, Covid-19 and China\u2019s game industry<\/p>\n<p>Hit new Chinese game Black Myth: Wukong has sparked controversy after gaming influencers who were given early access were told not to mention news and politics, Covid-19, or \u201cfeminist propaganda\u201d while publicly discussing the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/aug\/27\/black-myth-wukong-review-a-fantastically-exciting-action-game\">The game, which was released last week<\/a>, is China\u2019s first \u201ctriple A\u201d rated game, an industry term meaning a high budget blockbuster game, and is based on the famous 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West.<\/p>\n<p>Do NOT insult other influencers or players.<br \/>\n Do NOT use any offensive language\/humor.<br \/>\n Do NOT include politics, violence, nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishization, and other content that instigates negative discourse.<br \/>\n Do NOT use trigger words such as \u2018quarantine\u2019 or \u2018isolation\u2019 or \u2018Covid-19\u2019.<br \/>\n Do NOT discuss content related to China\u2019s game industry policies, opinions, news, etc.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/black-myth-wukong-game-controversy-china-streamers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streamers were given list of topics to avoid also including news and politics, Covid-19 and China\u2019s game industryHit new Chinese game Black Myth: Wukong has sparked controversy after gaming influencers who were given early access were told not to menti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1684],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-games"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66453,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66447\/revisions\/66453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}