Celebrities and game designers are really like chalk and cheese.

Especially when the celebrity is exceptionally handsome.

Tom was very skeptical, thinking he was seeing things after staying up all night.

But after staring at it for several seconds, the headline was still the same.

Moreover, he noticed that the account that posted the tweet was GameSpot—a globally renowned game news media outlet, known for reporting in-depth and authoritative information on many famous games.

As a gamer, who can resist clicking on such a headline from such an account?

Anyway, Tom couldn't resist; he immediately put aside searching for information about that Hua Country celebrity and clicked on the tweet directly to check it out.

And the content left him stunned.

[GameSpot]: "Netflix's new show 'City Survival' is a massive hit, and its star, Hua Country celebrity Wu Mu, has caught a lot of attention. Who is he, what are his past works, what movies has he acted in, and so on. But many don't know that, besides being an excellent actor, he is also a genius game designer from Hua Country."

"Or maybe genius game designer isn't quite right, because genius is usually used to describe those who have yet to grow into later-stage prodigies. And Hua Country celebrity Wu Mu—his first officially released game sold 7.2 million copies on Steam Platform, and the one opened for pre-orders this month has pre-order sales of 4.3 million copies."

"He is undoubtedly already a mature and famous game producer."

Huh?

Millions in game sales?

"What the crab!" Tom's hand shook, almost dropping his phone.

If you talk about explaining what acting achievements he had in Hua Country, he might not necessarily understand.

But explaining game sales...millions! And on Steam Platform, millions!

This is the kind of sales that only super popular games have!

And that Hua Country celebrity, who looks like just a pretty face and could live off his looks alone, made a game that sold millions!?

Tom was dumbfounded.

Reading further down into the detailed report, he was stunned once more.

"Huh, Vampire Survivor? He made this game?"

He had played this game!

Over 200 hours logged!

He not only finished the entire game but also went through all the large mods in the creative workshop.

Before this, he had often cursed the game developer for updating too slowly, asking why they weren't releasing a new version or new DLC. Were they scared of not earning money?

It turns out he was actually a superstar, running off to film shows for Netflix?

Tom suddenly felt a subtle change in emotions. Before, while watching programs, he had really wanted to see more of this celebrity's works, but upon discovering this celebrity was the creator of a game he liked... What was this guy doing!? A well-known game designer not making games, but being a celebrity here!?

But is this person releasing a new game?

After reading GameSpot's report, Tom couldn't resist starting to search for information on Wu Mu's new game. He quickly found content translated by others online.

"Huh, you can get a 'Pioneer' game title by pre-ordering during the promotion?" Tom's eyes lit up.

He couldn't care less about saving about ten bucks from the promotion, which amounts to only about $1.4 US Dollars, enough to buy some fried chicken?

But a game achievement title... is something you must have!

Even if buying a movie ticket seemed a bit of a hassle, wasting 5 US Dollars seemed a bit of a waste.

But it's okay, as Tom quickly saw online, where the movie ticket redemption code could be listed on eBay, with many people from Hua Country buying them there.

...

On the third day of the new Netflix variety show launch, the buzz of the show hadn't yet spread back to the country, but the hype over Wu Mu's game and movie box office already exploded first.

The movie box office, which previously fell back into a growth fatigue phase, unexpectedly hit a new high again.

Single-day box office of 150 million!

Everyone, both inside and outside the circle, was stunned. The movie has been in theaters for almost half a month, yet the box office is rising again?

Other movies have already dropped to less than half by now, but this one is still going up?

Is that even reasonable?

Moreover, people discovered that counting these past two days' box office surge, it had already surpassed 1 billion...

Roughly 300 million in the first week of release, and then when Wu Mu's promotional event was launched, it surged approximately 500 million in a few days, and now it's rising again, with over 200 million in just two days...

A factual art film with a box office over 1 billion!?

And it seems to be able to rise even more?

The online debate was already exploding.

"Seriously, are you guys crazy! Pushing a niche art film about breakups to a billion-dollar box office during the holiday season?"

"Damn, damn! Is there really so much romantic investment? Spending so much for Wu the Poster Boy!? You folks go crazy over such a niche art film, too??"

"Before Wu's fallout, the maximum box office of his movies was 200 million, now after the fallout, a niche art film hits 1 billion, a fivefold increase? Is that how falling apart works??"

People were dumbstruck looking at these box office figures.

But quite a few people understood.

"It's normal for this surge in the past two days. Just check eBay, see how many redemption codes for Wu the Poster Boy's movie are listed—lots of them don't even care about the price. A ticket for just a dollar or two, maybe seven to ten bucks; studios are crazily snapping them up everywhere. How can it not rise?"

"Hahaha, don't just look at eBay, go straight over the wall to the Neo forums, lots of free redemption codes are being posted, many just want the game title and can't watch the movie, too lazy to sell it, so they just free-post them for whoever needs them. Foreigners invite us to watch movies for free!"

"Yeah, freebie for foreigners, paying to watch Wu the Poster Boy's movie... not fond of niche art films, but if you let me watch for free... I'm gonna thoroughly exploit Wu the Poster Boy!"

Many frequent wall-crossers and internet savvy people were explaining.

And this undoubtedly made many people pause in surprise.

Foreigners inviting to watch movies?

Redemption codes posted for free viewing?

"Yes, haven't you paid attention to Wu the Poster Boy's promotional activities? Actually, what's a 1 billion box office to speak of? It's a Cannes award-winning piece after all, and since Wu the Poster Boy performs well, it's more worthwhile than those marketing movies. The most incredible is his game, just a Weibo tease, hasn't even started development, yet 7.6 million copies have been sold."

Huh?

Huh??

The visits to that Weibo of Wu Mu's game promo skyrocketed too, and countless users rushed in to check his game pre-order numbers, and they were taken aback to find Wu Mu's game had reached 7.6 million pre-orders?

"How is this possible?" Shu Mei said with a blank face, staring at the data on Wu Mu's phone.

7.6 million copies?

And over thirty percent of them are foreign players?

Domestic players buying she could understand, after all, it had been proven many times already, those fans truly love her brother!

But foreign players also buying??

They love it too?

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