{"id":123928,"date":"2022-03-03T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T09:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123928"},"modified":"2022-03-03T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T09:11:21","slug":"sifu-surpasses-one-million-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123928-sifu-surpasses-one-million-sales","title":{"rendered":"Sifu surpasses one million sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sifu&#8217;s developer Sloclap has revealed that the hardcore kung fu game has topped one million sales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled by the reception of Sifu from both fans and press alike,&#8221; said Pierre Tarno, the executive producer at Sloclap. &#8220;We set out to create an authentic, kung fu action game that paid homage to our favourite kung fu films.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sloclap revealed other interesting statistics about Sifu, including that players have logged a total of 10 million in-game hours since its 8 February release.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, over 45% of players have completed the game\u2019s challenging second level, and 150,000 succeeded in completing the game.<\/p>\n<p>Sifu is a challenging kung fu fighting game that embraces the style and feel of classic martial arts movies and features a story centred around a quest for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The game also uses a unique death mechanic that allows the player character to resurrect when killed in battle at the cost of growing older as more deaths are suffered.<\/p>\n<p>Sifu is Sloclap&#8217;s second game after Absolver and has proven to be a great success for the studio despite its difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Below you can watch the trailer for Sifu.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tpy5xPkjh8E\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123556-sifu-putting-the-art-in-martial-arts\">Sifu \u2013 Putting the art in martial arts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sifu&#8217;s developer Sloclap has revealed that the hardcore kung fu game has topped one million sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":123929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10217,25801,25701,25006],"class_list":["post-123928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-fighting-games","tag-kong-fu-games","tag-sifu","tag-sloclap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}