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Metro
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
NetEase game Blood Message may have the best video game graphics ever
After Black Myth: Wukong put China on the map in terms of single-player action games, new title Blood Message seems to be going a step further. Up until the last couple of years, the Chinese video games industry has had virtually no visible influence on the Western market. Giant publishers like Tencent and NetEase do own numerous Western developers, and shares in publishers, but no one would play a game like Marvel Rivals and assume it came from China. But all that has changed recently, with last year's Black Myth: Wukong (and Stellar Blade from Korean studio Shift Up) cementing a new era of Asian video games that are not from Japan. You would think that the lack of experience, with console style single-player games, would require a long period of learning and experimentation, but in terms of graphics that has not been the case at all. To the point where new game Blood Message is already looking better than almost any other game in development. All we've got to go on is the trailer below, but the game is published by NetEase and developed by 24 Entertainment in Hangzhou, China. It's described as a 'cinematic, single-player, linear story-driven action adventure' for consoles and PC. A lot of the first wave of Chinese single-player games have been heavily influenced by FromSoftware and the Soulslikes genre, including the upcoming Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, but Blood Message seems to be closer to Sony titles such as God Of War and The Last Of Us. Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning. There's little further information about the gameplay, except that it blends 'visceral, realistic combat' with 'stealth and survival mechanics.' More Trending The story is based around the final years of the Tang Dynasty, in the 9th century, and casts you as an unnamed messenger trying to travel East, with his young son, during Dunhuang's Uprising. We're unclear how much of it is based on historical reality but there doesn't seem to be any magic or fantasy elements. Unreal Engine 5 is being used for the visuals and if the trailer is an accurate representation of what the game is going to look like in action, then we should all be in for a treat. There's no word on a release date or year, which is usually an indication that the game is a long way off, but hopefully we'll find out about that soon. 'As our first completely single-player focused experience from NetEase Games, after two decades of deep dedication to the gaming industry, we are prepared to deliver a truly epic and cinematic experience for players around the world,' said Zhipeng Hu, Lead Producer and NetEase Executive Vice President. Email gamecentral@ leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader's Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. MORE: You can buy one of the best games ever for the price of an ice lolly MORE: The six strangest games Hideo Kojima made before Death Stranding 2 MORE: Survival Kids review – lost in blue on the Nintendo Switch 2
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Global Times: Cultural inheritance must touch the heart first
BEIJING, June 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Dunhuang, with its millennia-old heritage, is finding new life through the energy and creativity of young people. Over the past year, I've been involved in creating and performing in the National Theatre of China's (NTC) music drama The Summoning of Dunhuang. Through this process, I've come to feel deeply how a cultural summoning that began over 1,000 years ago can still stir emotions and spark connections today. My own journey with Dunhuang began in 2021, when I composed a song called "Feitian" (Flying Apsaras). I wanted to reinterpret the free, graceful spirit of Dunhuang's murals in a contemporary pop style. To my delight, listeners - especially young people - responded enthusiastically. Many commented that it was the first time they'd really paid attention to Dunhuang or tried to understand its art. That experience made me realize how urgently we need new, fitting "entry points" into China's traditional culture. I firmly believe that cultural inheritance must touch the heart first - and to do that, it has to feel personal. To bring young people closer to traditional culture, we should not present it in a rigid manner that makes it feel distant and unapproachable. Young audiences need to feel, "This is about me," "I understand this," and "I'm excited to engage." Only then will ancient traditions come alive again. That conviction drove me to join The Summoning of Dunhuang. In the play I portray two characters: Chang Shuhong (later the founder of the Dunhuang Academy) in 1935 and Zhang Ran in 2035. Chang left his life in Paris, France, to journey alone into the deserts of Northwest China, dedicating his life to keeping Dunhuang's heritage burning bright. Zhang is a future digital preservation engineer who uses modern technology to bring the murals to life. One character "burns bright," the other "lights up" - and both, a century apart, are protectors of Dunhuang in their own ways. To prepare for the creation of the drama and bring these characters to life, our creative team undertook an intensive field study in Dunhuang. This journey was like bathing in the winds of history. We only felt the "wind" gently flipping through ancient chapters. Those past events, though weathered by time, still shined brightly, transformed into the camel bells of caravans, the sound of flutes at border passes and the bugles on battlefields, directly reaching our ears. As NTC Director Tian Qinxin often reminds us, "Dunhuang's soul is in the details." To make our dancers move with the authentic grace of the flying apsaras, we studied each detail of the murals, watching how the apsaras' hands floated through the air. Our lighting designer ran countless tests to mimic the way sunlight once played across the cave walls. When a Buddha or a guardian deity appears on stage as a 15 meter tall digital projection, or a flying apsaras descends on seven wires, tradition and technology merge seamlessly. Every detail is crafted to evoke a timeless, heartfelt resonance. During the performances, I've watched the audience's eyes light up over and over. A theatergoer told me they saw "a Dunhuang for my generation." Students from a school for the deaf in Nanjing used sign language afterward to say "thank you." On social media, many audience members shared that the show inspired them to look up Dunhuang, and to read about Chang's life. Moments like these affirm my belief that "modernizing" traditional culture doesn't mean diluting it or turning it into mere entertainment. Instead, it means bringing sincerity, passion, and creative artistry so that ancient traditions step off dusty shelves and into people's senses - into their ears, eyes, and feelings. The reason why traditional culture can become a spiritual resource today is that its precipitation through time has been deep enough, while its future life depends on continuously injecting new forms of expression to help it grow afresh. On visiting the site in August 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the sound protection of Mogao Caves and inheritance of Dunhuang culture is a responsibility that is held by the Chinese nation for the advancement of the world's civilization. Dunhuang still calls to our youth. For our generation of artists and cultural workers, it is a relay race across time. As I travel with The Summoning of Dunhuang crew on the show's national tour, I feel even more keenly that China's civilization is at once profound and expansive. Dunhuang's story is far from finished. I hope that on even broader stages ahead, I can continue to share, in my own way, the moving and enduring tales of this extraordinary heritage that are distinctly ours. The author is an actor with the National Theatre of China. The story was originally published in Chinese in the People's Daily on June 14. View original content: SOURCE Global Times Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
GSM Arena
10-06-2025
- GSM Arena
Honor Magic V5 to come in a shiny new color
Honor is rumored to be skipping the number 4 and going from the Magic V3 which launched last year to the Magic V5 which we're expecting in a few weeks (blame tetraphobia). Now a new rumor out of China purportedly shares the Magic V5's colorways, and one stands out - gold. It used to be all the rage many years ago, then it fell out of fashion, and while you can still find hints of it here and there, it's been a while since we've had a properly shiny gold smartphone. Honor Magic V3 Aside from the blingy colorway, there will also be three other options: black, white, and Dunhuang, which is interesting because it's the name of a city. A past leak from the same source claimed the Magic V5 would come with a 6,100 mAh battery with support for 66W wired charging. Other rumors have said it would be under 9 mm thick, retaking the thinness crown from the Oppo Find N5, and it should come with a 200 MP periscope telephoto camera apparently, an 8-inch folding screen, a 6.45-inch cover display, and the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC at the helm. Honor Magic V3 Oppo Find N5 Via
The Star
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
Master craftsman speaks visual language
WALKING into Yuan Changjun's studio in northwest Beijing's Changping district, a large silver statue of a celestial maiden playing a reversed pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute, in a flying motion catches visitors' attention. 'The statue was inspired by the iconic Dunhuang murals in Gansu province.
The Independent
30-05-2025
- General
- The Independent
A digital odyssey through Dunhuang with Fan Jinshi
The magnificence of Dunhuang and the Mogao Caves should be seen by the world. The issue has always been how to show them to more people, but still protect the delicate thousand-year-old treasures at the same time. Finding a solution to that particular quandary has been a life-time task for Fan Jinshi, honorary director of the Dunhuang Academy. As a result, she has been on the frontline of the historical landmark's digital preservation. During an exclusive interview with China Daily, Fan, dubbed the 'daughter of Dunhuang', shared stories from the digital odyssey undertaken to catalog and present the awe-inspiring content of the Mogao Caves. She hopes that, through the efforts of generations of researchers, their magnificence can be admired long into the future.
