The crowd sourced encyclopedia's article on the game, read directly for this entry. Its strength is a well referenced production, release and reception record. Its limit is that it is not independently peer reviewed, so it is cited here for corroborated production and reception detail rather than for a mythological explainer, which the Liao article supplies instead.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to an uncontested, easily checked point about a video game rather than a disputed claim. NotesRead directly. Cited for the game's developer, Game Science; its August 20, 2024 release on PlayStation 5 and Windows, with an Xbox Series X/S release following in 2025; its setting five hundred years after the classical novel Journey to the West, with the player as the Destined One recovering Sun Wukong's six senses; its Metacritic scores of 81 on PC and 76 on PlayStation 5; and its sales, ten million units in four days, eighteen million within two weeks and twenty million within its first month, a pace Guinness World Records credited as the fastest selling video game based on a classic novel.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Myth:_Wukong
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Games, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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