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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...
Finally, A Genshin Impact Event That’s Not A Huge Grind
5.10.2021
I’ve celebrated my fair share of Chinese Mid-Autumn festivals, but if you’re expecting a heartwarming real life story about my experiences therein, prepare to be disappointed: I don’t usually plan anything. Mostly I just get to eat a lot of Chinese food and pretend that America gave me a public...
Genshin Impact’s Orchestral Soundtrack Is Unbelievably Good
5.10.2021
Genshin Impact’s online concert last Sunday was a nonstop series of bangers, but the game really didn’t need one to convince me that it has one of the best video game scores I’ve heard in the past several years. So even if you’ve never played Genshin, I’d still like you to experience some of...
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...
Genshin Impact Made $2 Billion In A Year
30.9.2021
Free-to-play game Genshin Impact made $2 billion on the Google Play and Apple App stores in its first year. That makes Genshin Impact the third most financially successful mobile game in the world, sitting comfortably behind Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile. Excluding sales figures from China...
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...
One Year With Genshin Impact
28.9.2021
Exactly one year ago today, Genshin Impact was released. We were almost six months into the coronavirus pandemic, and now, looking back, I can’t imagine my adventure starting any other way. The fantasy world of Teyvat became my safe harbor in a year filled with grief, uncertainty,...
Playing Genshin Impact's Last Update As Its Villain Was Eye-Opening
22.9.2021
I’ve been building up my Raiden Shogun character so that I could use her to clear Genshin Impact’s latest chapter. She’s the main antagonist of the game’s Inazuma region, so I thought it would be interesting to attack and dethrone god using god herself. Read more
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 Character That Isn't Even Out Yet Already Causing Fan Turmoil
20.9.2021
It’s been a rough week for anyone who’s looking forward to playing Kokomi, a new healer coming to Genshin Impact tomorrow. Ever since leakers revealed that her passive talent boosts her healing abilities in exchange for completely nuking her critical hit rate (severely limiting her ability to deal...
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...
World Flipper Is An Uneven Combination Of Gacha, Pinball, And JRPG
15.9.2021
World Flipper is a fascinating mobile game that mixes gacha with pinball and JRPG-style combat. While I was excited to play a new gacha game in a new gameplay format, it doesn’t entirely succeed as one.Read more
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
Genshin Impact Fans Are Roasting The Single Character Who Can’t Cook
8.9.2021
Genshin Impact is filled with clumsy weirdos. I don’t expect most of the cast to be world-class chefs, but there’s one character whose culinary incompetence surpasses them all. 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
Genshin Impact Gives Aloy The World She Deserves
3.9.2021
Aloy deserves to be in the Genshin Impact collaboration and the world it exists in. I’m not just saying that because she’s a great character. I enjoy seeing her thrive in Teyvat, which is kinder to her than her own Earth ever was.Read more
Murdering Cute Animals Isn't Helping Me Catch Up Before Genshin Impact's Next Big Update
27.8.2021
Genshin Impact’s Inazuma update just came out last month. But I’ve been too distracted to complete it because hunting animals is too fun.Read more
Genshin Impact's Official Discord Hit Its Max User Capacity Forcing Devs To Create A Second Server
31.7.2021
I knew Genshin Impact was a popular game. I also knew it had a ton of active and ravenous players who can’t get enough of the free-to-play online RPG. But I had no idea it was so popular that it was pushing Discord to its limits and forcing the devs to start a second server for everyone.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