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Genshin Impact’s Latest Character Announcement Is Bringing Out The Thirst
11.10.2021
The Genshin Impact community is abuzz over the upcoming arrival of Arataki Itto, a new character who hails from the game’s Inazuma nation. In an unusual move, Genshin developer miHoYo formally announced the character today, well in advance of his story quest appearance in the game itself. While...
Genshin Impact Developers Launch Closed Beta For Space Fantasy RPG
8.10.2021
Yesterday, Genshin Impact developer miHoYo announced that closed beta sign-ups for their new game Honkai: Star Rail will begin today. While it’s set in the same universe as the popular mobile game Honkai Impact 3rd, the announcement confirmed that Star Rail will be available for both mobile...
Genshin Impact's Latest Event Reminds Us It's Always Been Very Gay
4.10.2021
Queer Genshin Impact players have been eating well this month. During the gacha game’s anniversary web event, playable character Chongyun blushed as he stood with another playable character, Xingqiu. Later during the Moonchase Festival main quest, Xingqiu offered to read a romance novel to...
Ticked Off Genshin Impact Players Go On Review-Bomb Spree
29.9.2021
Genshin Impact’s one-year anniversary is underway, but not all players are finding it a cause for celebration. For anyone familiar with the game’s community on social media or who follows some of its biggest streamers, it’s been impossible to escape players’ complaints about the anniversary...
Genshin Impact Embraces Fan Creators, Rather Than Suing Them
21.9.2021
Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has a uniquely generous policy toward fan artists, and its explicit endorsement on Genshin Impact merch has created an incredibly vibrant art community.Read more
Genshin Impact Fan Says They're Suing Devs For Changing A Character
16.9.2021
Genshin Impact got a strong new character in September, Raiden Shogun, and she’s already sending waves through the player community. While most of the reception has been positive, a vocal minority believe that developer miHoYo misled fans expecting Raiden to work well with an existing playable...
Twitch Streamer Under Fire By Genshin Impact Fans Over Anti-Chinese Tirade
9.9.2021
A Genshin Impact streamer recently drew public criticism after using anti-Chinese language against an ethnically Korean streamer in a disagreement about gameplay.Read more
I Still Can't Listen To Genshin Impact's Inaccurate English Voice Acting
7.9.2021
Whenever I download Genshin Impact onto a new device, the first thing I do immediately is download the Chinese voice pack. I’m not a snob about dubs versus subs. The problem is that the English voice over turns my favorite characters into unrelatable strangers that I barely recognize. Read more
Horizon’s Aloy Joins Genshin Impact, Is Cute As A Button
22.7.2021
Horizon heroine Aloy trades the machine-infested wilds of a future Earth for the lush, fantasy lands of Teyvat when she arrives in Genshin Impact this fall, developer miHoYo announced today.Read more
Genshin Impact Players Insist On Reaching New Region The Hard Way
22.7.2021
Genshin Impact just added a gorgeous new region inspired by traditional Japanese culture, and players want to reach it on their own terms—or get unceremoniously teleported back to land trying.Read more
Genshin Impact's Biggest Update Yet Adds Japan-Inspired Region
9.7.2021
The moment Genshin Impact fans have been waiting for practically since the game came out is finally here. Inazuma, an oft-rumored, much-anticipated in-game area inspired by Japan, is launching on July 21. Not only that, it’s arriving alongside an update so large that Chinese developer Mihoyo...
Report: Knife-Wielding Man Arrested At Genshin Impact Developer's Headquarters
27.4.2021
According to Sina, one of China’s largest news portals, a man was recently arrested at Mihoyo’s Shanghai headquarters. It is believed the suspect intended to stab the company’s founders and then take his own life.Read more
#BoycottGenshin Is Tearing The Genshin Impact Community Apart
7.4.2021
Last night, Genshin Impact began trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. Which ones, exactly? Well, that’s the thing: Nobody can really agree on what lies at the core of the erupting volcano that has sprouted next to developer miHoYo’s cash cow. Currently, the #BoycottGenshin hashtag...
I Wish Genshin Impact Cared About My Time As Much As Its Story Seems To
30.3.2021
Reused NPCs. An environment you’ve already spent dozens of hours in. Contrived progress gating based on time. On paper, Genshin Impact’s current event, the Windblume Festival, sounds like it’s scraping the bottom of the barrel. In reality it’s a chill yet inventive exercise in making an in-game...
Genshin Impact, Six Months Later
29.3.2021
Genshin Impact was a landmark game for 2020, and for global awareness of Chinese-developed video games. Its impressive graphics, compelling fantasy world, and charming characters impressed and attracted millions of players.Read more
Genshin Impact Made Over $1 Billion In Just Six Months
24.3.2021
You folks hear of this game Genshin Impact? Pretty big deal. So big that it’s raked in over $1 billion (that’s three commas, people) in mobile revenue since it launched nearly six months ago on September 28.Read more
Genshin Impact Won't Let Me Spend Money Anymore, And I'm Finally Free
22.3.2021
I have a complicated relationship with Genshin Impact. I adore its vast, lovingly handcrafted world and charming characters. I hate how its intertwining systems whisper to me in a million different voices: “Spend money.” But there’s no denying that the system works; to date, I’ve probably spent...
Genshin Impact KFC Crossover Events In China Shut Down Over Covid-19 Concerns
12.3.2021
A weekend crossover event between the wildly popular Genshin Impact and Kentucky Fried Chicken had to be shut down at Shanghai and Hangzhou locations after apparently violating China’s ongoing covid-19 prevention measures, the fast food chain announced on Chinese social media site Weibo today.Read...
Genshin Impact's 1.4 Update Comes Out March 17, Adds A New Character And Mini-Games
6.3.2021
Genshin Impact’s next big update releases on March 17 and with it comes the start of a new event, the Windblume Festival, bringing new mini-games, a new playable character, the opportunity to go on dates with select characters, and some quality of life changes. Read more
Genshin Impact Fans Don't Like Barbara's New Voice, And They're Taking It Out On Her Voice Actor
5.2.2021
Genshin Impact’s brand new 1.3 patch, released earlier this week, added new characters, new activities, and a whole new event, but it also took something away: Barbara’s voice. Barbara is a playable character who’s basically a pop star, and before 1.3, her peppy demeanor reflected that. Now...