The Political Economy Logic and Implications Behind the Explosion of the Black Myths

Abstract

Abstract Abstract As China’s first phenomenal 3A game, Black Myth: Wukong’s global explosion not only reflects the rise of the game industry, but also implies a deep political economy logic. This paper takes the hegemonic stability theory and cultural capital theory as the framework, and analyzes the structural motivation behind the success of this game by combining the perspective of cultural power game. The core viewpoints are: firstly, China’s game industry breaks through the western dominated “game hegemony” system through technology accumulation and capital empowerment, and promotes the reconstruction of global industrial chain power; secondly, Black Myth transforms Chinese traditional symbols into international consumption symbols through the strategy of cultural capitalization, which forms a new type of cultural soft power. Secondly, “Black Myth” transforms Chinese traditional symbols into international consumption symbols with the strategy of “cultural capitalization”, forming a new type of cultural soft power output mode; thirdly, the synergistic effect of national strategy and capital logic accelerates the transformation of China’s role from a “marginal substitute worker” to a “rule maker”. In the future, China’s game industry needs to balance cultural sovereignty and globalization demand, and build a new industrial ecology of “technology-culture-commerce”.