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From Wuxia to Cultivation Games: Reimagining Chinese Cosmology in Digital Space
This research explores the evolution of Chinese cultural elements in digital games, specifically tracing the lineage from wuxia to the emerging genre of cultivation games.
- Cultivation games are a rapidly growing Chinese genre in which players pursue spiritual immortality through martial and mystical practices, and the paper argues they embed Daoist cosmology, alchemy, and epistemology into core gameplay rather than using Chinese culture merely as backdrop.
- Author Morgan Yu Hao frames this shift through Yuk Hui's concept of cosmotechnics, positioning cultivation games as a potential fusion of cosmic and moral orders through technical activity and as a challenge to Western-centric perspectives in game studies.
- The paper traces a lineage from the 1990s wuxia "Three Swords" titles (Xuan-Yuan Sword, Chinese Paladin, Jian Xia Qing Yuan) through later East Asian MMORPGs, citing earlier scholarship that claimed wuxia games held more than half of the Chinese market.
DiGRAJun 2025
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Plus: Klonoa & Gwent Top a Slow-ish New Steam Week
The first full week of July 2022 on Steam was relatively quiet following the Summer Sale, with carryover titles like F1 22, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak and DNF Duel still charting alongside a handful of modest new debuts.
- Subscription services significantly impacted console charts, with Arcadegeddon leading PlayStation downloads via PlayStation Plus and WIN Reality topping the Meta Quest store.
- New Steam releases saw modest engagement post-Summer Sale, led by Sword and Fairy Inn 2 with 7,000 concurrent users, while Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series and Gwent: Rogue Mage reached 750 and 1,200 concurrent users respectively.
- DLC content proved to be a strong revenue driver, as Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course performed well on both Xbox and Nintendo Switch, while Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak also dominated Switch third-party downloads.
GameDiscoverCoJul 2022