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Recently, there has been a flurry of activity with Chinese AAA game titles. The "second graduate from the village" Phantom Blade Zero released a ray-tracing demo, the Torch Dragon team unveiled a new trailer for their Gujian series, and the highlight of Gamescom was Game Science's second installment in the Black Myth series—Black Myth: Zhong Kui. Let's take a look!

• Game Science Announces New Title "Black Myth: Zhong Kui"

At today's Gamescom opening night, Game Science officially revealed their new game "Black Myth: Zhong Kui"!

Are there truly ghosts in this world? Demons and monsters are born from the heart.

Goblins below the stage, immortals above—what a contrast between two faces!

Inside the door lies a mess of confusion, who outside calls for justice?

The sun and moon hang emptily in their cycle, who has the right to control life and death?

Not following human sentiments nor conforming to the way, not pursuing fame nor following trends.

Take up the sword, take up the sword,

To distinguish between the pure and the impure!

Developed by Game Science, the second installment in the Black Myth series, "Black Myth: Zhong Kui," officially revealed its first CG teaser trailer today, which also debuted at the Gamescom 2025 pre-show event.

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This title is a single-player action RPG primarily inspired by "Zhong Kui," a famous character from Chinese folklore. As it is still in early development, there is no in-game footage available yet.

• Phantom Blade Zero Releases Ray-Tracing Demo

In late July, Phantom Blade Zero held a two-day offline demo event in Beijing. The demo offered an easy difficulty option, 8 weapons, 5 Phantom Armaments, and was livestreamed throughout. Many players who completed the demo expressed their satisfaction. IGN exclusively released a 22-minute gameplay demonstration featuring a skilled player that was quite entertaining to watch.

Today, NVIDIA released a ray-tracing demo video for Phantom Blade Zero, announcing that the game will support ray tracing and DLSS 4 frame generation at launch. The video, titled "Return to Pang Town," showcases what will be a core area in the game, combining concepts from previous titles, real-world scanning, and new graphical technologies. The producer commented: "Released before Gamescom to build some excitement." The video continues the fast-paced combat style shown in previous promotions, even hiding an execution move at the 3-minute mark. A brand new trailer will be released at the upcoming Future Games Show in a few days. Currently, it's known that the game's release date will be announced sometime in 2025, with Gamescom and The Game Awards being the two most likely venues for the announcement.

• First Trailer for New Gujian Game "Gu Jian" Revealed

A few days ago, Shanghai Torch Dragon, the development team behind the Gujian Qitan series, released the first trailer for their new single-player game simply titled "Gu Jian." The game is being developed on Unreal Engine 5 and combines ancient Chinese mythology with supernatural tales. The gameplay footage revealed combat scenes and parts of the weapon and item systems, while also subtly distancing itself from Souls-like games. The video ended with the summoning of a familiar "ox-horse" creature for battle, which will likely be one of the game's standout characters.

With so many major game announcements, internet users have jokingly brought up Tencent's nickname as the "angel investor" of Chinese AAA games. It seems that games where Tencent invests but doesn't interfere with development tend to turn out quite promising.

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