A Push Square journalist travelled from the UK to Chengdu, China, for an early hands-on session with Tides of Annihilation, a forthcoming PS5 action game by Chinese developer Eclipse Glow Games. The trip was notably ironic because the game is set in an alternate, Avalon-invaded version of London, a city the writer had just left and knows well.

The journalist travelled more than 8,000km, including a direct flight of about 10 hours from Heathrow to Chengdu, and visited the studio’s headquarters. The game’s demo was largely set around a fictionalised British Museum, renamed the Great Russell Museum, while the developers showed reference photographs of Euston and other London locations; the article also describes the author’s first impressions of travelling in China and interest in the prominence of HoYoverse games there.