Genshin Impact (PS5) News Articles
Tuesday2nd Dec 2025
News One of PS5's Biggest and Most Popular Games Is Getting Its Own DualSense at Last
Trapped in Teyvat
With support for the last-gen version of Genshin Impact scheduled to cease in the New Year, both Sony and dev HoYoverse have been working overtime to transition players to the PS5. Recently, it released a trailer, highlighting
Saturday22nd Nov 2025
News Genshin Impact Buffs Some of Its Oldest Characters in Upcoming PS5 Update
Venti nice
You’ve probably heard the phrase “power creep” before. It’s an issue pretty much exclusive to gacha games, where tempting you to invest in new characters means older ones can get left behind. Recently we’ve seen HoYoverse’s various titles attempt to tackle this problem, with popular characters from Honkai: Star Rail and even...
Wednesday22nd Oct 2025
News Now Devs Are Politely Asking Their PS4 Players to Upgrade to PS5
You know you want to
One of PS5’s biggest challenges has been actively encouraging players to upgrade from the wildly popular PS4. With hardware prices still high for the new-gen system, the reluctance to upgrade has slowly started to affect third-party publishers – even Capcom recently complained about it. And with Genshin Impact expected to...
Saturday11th Oct 2025
News Genshin Impact Wants to Be the Only Game You Ever Play on PS5
Major new mode will massively expand array of experiences
We’ve already seen the likes of Fortnite and Roblox embrace community created content, but now it’s the turn of Genshin Impact to take strides towards becoming the ultimate “forever” game. While the new update, out on 22nd October, brings substantial new quests to the ongoing...
Friday29th Aug 2025
Constellation craziness
It can cost thousands of dollars to earn enough duplicates of a 5-Star character in Genshin Impact to max out their Constellations, so word of a new item earned through further duplicates that will let you break the level cap of 90 is proving somewhat controversial. Here’s how it works: if you pull for a 5-Star character...
Tuesday22nd Jul 2025
News Genshin Impact Lore Bomb Introduces 11 New Characters for PS5, PS4 Gacha
Alice! Varka! Columbina!
Genshin Impact’s summer update is right around the corner, but all roads lead to new region Nod-Krai, and a year-long storyline named the Song of the Welkin Moon. Out of nowhere, developer HoYoverse has dropped an epic five minute trailer introducing the cast we’ll encounter in the new location, as part of the Archon...
Friday18th Jul 2025
Here are the new redemption codes
Genshin Impact’s newest summer event will be sticking around permanently, as Natlan expands with an all-new beach resort. The open world gacha has always added incredible new locations during the summer, but historically they’ve been time limited, meaning they’ve long since been removed from the game. This...
Saturday7th Jun 2025
News Genshin Impact Ups the Ante En Route to Nodkrai, Here Are the New Redemption Codes
Skirk makes her long-awaited arrival
Genshin Impact is substantially upping the ante ahead of new region Nodkrai in its v5.7 update, which is scheduled to release on 18th June. Before we get into all the details, you’ll probably want to redeem the latest redemption codes, which are: MasterSkirk0618 YourSpaceTime VoidStar0618
Wednesday7th May 2025
News Genshin Impact Players Must Verify Their Age or Risk Losing All Their Progress on PS5, PS4
Fail to comply and your account could get deleted
Due to government rulings, Genshin Impact players in the US will now need to verify their age or risk losing access to their account forever. A recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruling concluded that the juggernaut gacha game is “misleading” children over the true cost of its characters. Fo
Thursday1st May 2025
News One of the Biggest PS5, PS4 Games Appears to Be on the Cusp of Massive Change
Genshin Impact devs give rare insight into the future
Make no mistake about it: Genshin Impact pioneered the current gaming climate. Without it, we wouldn’t have juggernauts like Wuthering Waves, Honkai: Star Rail, Infinity Nikki, and Zenless Zone Zero on the PS5. But being the frontrunner means newcomers have been able to stand on its shoulders,...
Saturday26th Apr 2025
News Genshin Impact Goes Theme Park in Colossal PS5, PS4 Update
Manage Fontaine's finest amusement park
Our favourite events in HoYoverse’s gacha games are the ones where you get to temporarily do a bit of business management, so you can bet Genshin Impact’s new amusement park minigame is going to bring us back to Teyvat. While the highlight for most players will surely be the new Archon Quest Interlude –...
Monday27th Jan 2025
News The Traveler Takes to the Bathhouse in Light Genshin Impact Update on PS5, PS4
And breathe
Genshin Impact’s big Natlan storyline is largely over, so v5.4 is a lighter update overall. Due out on 12th February, you can look forward to a trip to the bathhouse, a bunch of minigames, and a new experimental event featuring some slice of life events from all over Teyvat. We suppose the highlight here is the addition of Yumemizuki...
Tuesday21st Jan 2025
News Genshin Impact Maker to Pay $20 Million FTC Fine Over Gacha System
As part of "commitment to transparency"
Genshin Impact maker Cognosphere – which conducts business as HoYoverse – has agreed to pay a $20 million fine to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), settling a case which alleges it’s misleading children over the true cost of obtaining rare gacha rewards. The action RPG, which first launched on PS4 in...
Tuesday24th Dec 2024
News We're Getting Closer and Closer to That Genshin Impact Anime
Animated shorts keep coming
Years and years ago, HoYoverse announced a Genshin Impact anime, which fans are still waiting to watch. There’s been no real update on the project, and many have assumed it’s now on hiatus. However, that’s not stopped the Chinese studio from starting to make more and more anime shorts to promote upcoming updates...
Friday20th Dec 2024
News Genshin Impact's New Best Girl Rides a Motorcycle Through Teyvat on PS5, PS4
Tons to look forward to in next major update
Natlan’s main storyline will come to a conclusion in Genshin Impact’s next enormous update, scheduled to release on 1st January for both PS5 and PS4. The new content will make the motorcycle riding Pyro Archon, Mauvika, playable for the first time. She’ll headline the first phase of the banner,...
Friday8th Nov 2024
News Genshin Impact's Already Enormous Open World Grows Even Bigger in New PS5, PS4 Update
Find time
Genshin Impact’s life-consuming campaign will add an enormous influx of content with its v5.2 update, due out on 20th November. As we’re still deep in the Natlan arc, this will add several new environments to the map, where you’ll be able to hang with new tribes and “investigate a mysterious accident” as part of the latest event...
Thursday10th Oct 2024
News Genshin Impact's Big New PS5, PS4 Story Has Been Downgraded in English
No voice acting for key characters
Those of you enjoying your adventure in Natlan, the newest region added to Genshin Impact, will have to do so without voice acting – as it’s speculated the ongoing strikes involving union SAG-AFTRA mean some of the characters in the latest story update are lacking their English dub. Chinese juggernaut HoYoverse...
Friday27th Sep 2024
News Genshin Impact's Rollerblading Waifu Will Bankrupt Whales on PS5, PS4
Update out on 9th October
Genshin Impact’s character designs are always on point, but they don’t really get much cooler than Natlan newcomer Xilonen – a musical master forger with rollerblades. Like many of her regional counterparts, there’s a big emphasis on traversal with this character, and she can use her wheeled shoes to skate up...
Wednesday28th Aug 2024
News Genshin Impact's Sequel-Sized Natlan Expansion Is Out Now on PS5, PS4
A whole new world
If gacha game Genshin Impact wasn’t a live service, it’d be on its fourth or fifth sequel by now. Of course, HoYoverse has instead opted for an ever-expanding open world, which is up there with the biggest you’ll find on PS5 and PS4 these days. And today it’s got even bigger, with the release of the Pyro region, Natlan...
Wednesday21st Aug 2024
News Genshin Impact Boss Cries on Stage Following Harsh Fan Feedback
"We're just like you"
Liu Wei, better known to HoYoverse fans as Da Wei, is a billionaire – but that hasn’t stopped him from weeping like a baby on stage at a recent fanfest in Shanghai. While most company executives quietly pull the strings from their Ivory Towers, the boss of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail is surprisingly forward-facing,...
Wednesday17th Jul 2024
News Free-to-Play Phenomenon Genshin Impact Gets Its Own PS5 Console Bundle in Japan
Impact
PlayStation has a long history of bundling its consoles with blockbuster games, and it's certainly not afraid of releasing region-specific bundles that are designed to appeal directly to key markets. For example, it's partnered with EA Sports on a bunch of European packages in the past, shipping the PS4 with select FIFA titles. It's...
Tuesday16th Jul 2024
News Genshin Impact Fan Frustration Boils Over As Backlash Goes Viral
Voice actors chime in
Genshin Impact has once again found itself in the eye of an almighty social media storm, and this may be the most venomous backlash the uber-popular gacha has faced to date. Earlier this month, HoYoverse released the trailer for its new region Natlan, which is inspired by real-life continents like Africa and South America. You...
Friday12th Jul 2024
News Genshin Impact Reveals a Smorgasbord of New Waifus for PS5, PS4 Players to Thirst Over
Fire starter
The drip marketing for Genshin Impact’s new Natlan region is well underway, but nothing is going to quench the thirst created by this new crop of characters. Our first taste of the storyline from this fresh open world area appears to be teasing some kind of Goblet of Fire, Hunger Games-esque tournament. Also, apparently everyone is...
Sunday7th Jul 2024
News Celebrate the Summer with Massive New Open World Map in Genshin Impact on PS5, PS4
Hot and bothered
It’s become something of a summer tradition for Genshin Impact to beat the heat with a time-limited map, and this year is no different. As part of the Summertide Scales and Tales update, due out on 17th July, developer HoYoverse will be sending Travellers to Simulanka – a new time-limited realm populated by origami animals and...
Friday24th May 2024
News Genshin Impact PS5, PS4 Gives Its First Glimpse of New Nation Natlan
Gotta catch 'em all
Genshin Impact’s big 4.7 livestream earlier today had a huge moment for long-time fans of the franchise: a first look at upcoming nation Natlan. This all-new region will be added to the already expansive Teyvat later in the year, and judging by the trailer, it may have some Pokémon vibes to it. Certainly in the brief clip we...
Wednesday22nd May 2024
News Genshin Impact PS5, PS4 Promises Huge Improvement as Battle with Wuthering Waves Looms
Ready, fight
Apparently all it took was the mere sniff of a rival to prompt HoYoverse into action, as it’s announced a pretty seismic change for Genshin Impact on the eve of Wuthering Waves’ release. The Chinese developer has announced that alongside the launch of v4.7 next month, it’ll increase the game’s daily Resin allowance up to 200,...
Sunday17th Mar 2024
News Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail Fans Are at War
An unintended event
There’s been drama brewing in the HoYoverse fandom for some time, but it may have reached boiling point following the announcement of Honkai: Star Rail’s latest update, Into the Yawning Chasm. As the game celebrates its first anniversary, the gacha game developer announced rewards of up to 1,600 Stellar Jade and up to 20
Saturday2nd Mar 2024
News Genshin Impact Adds an Alchemy Tycoon Sim, Cat Café in Next PS5, PS4 Update
Fashion designer Chiori also arrives
Genshin Impact’s next major update, due out on 13th March, will be a bit breezier than recent incarnations, and will focus on a new event in Monstadt involving an alchemy shop you’re tasked with running. The business management sim will put you in charge of every stage of production, as you cultivate...
Monday22nd Jan 2024
News Genshin Impact Will Soon Look Better Than Ever Before on PS5, PS4
New tech dramatically improves presentation
Genshin Impact’s drop-dead gorgeous world will get even more stunning when update 4.4 arrives on 31st January, adding annual Lunar New Year content to the Chinese-inspired region of Liyue. Debuting in the update on PS5 and PS4 is new tech named Global Far Fog and Gradient Tint Rock, which will add depth...
Saturday9th Dec 2023
News Genshin Impact Settles Down for a Fontaine Festival in 4.3 Update
Lights, camera, gacha
Genshin Impact’s unmatchable update cadence continues with v4.3 on 20th December, significantly slowing the speed of your Fontaine adventure now that the main Archon questline has concluded. Instead, you’ll be invited to the Fontinalia Festival, where you’ll partake in a unique movie making experience. The press release...
