Honkai: Star Rail (PS5) News Articles
Saturday2nd Aug 2025
Salad fingers
Honkai: Star Rail’s next major update will of course continue the tale of Amphoreus, as the story enters its second phase. But we must admit, we’re more concerned with the upcoming restaurant management minigame, which will debut as part of the new patch, due out on 13th August. Before we get into all the details, you’ll...
Friday20th Jun 2025
Type swoon
In what is looking like the most brutal collection of Honkai: Star Rail banners since the game’s inception, v3.4 will serve up Phainon, Tribbie, Sunday, Sparkle, and their respective Light Cones all during the first phase of the update, starting 2nd July. Fate/Stay Night characters Saber and Archer will also follow from 11th July,...
Monday16th Jun 2025
News Your Forgotten Honkai: Star Rail Characters Are About to Get a Lot More Useful
Looking buffed
As we’ve reported in the past, power creep is a real issue in gacha games like Honkai: Star Rail. To summarise the issue for those not in the know, developers will gradually make new characters more powerful than their predecessors to entice steady spending. But that means older units gradually become useless over time. Zenless...
Monday12th May 2025
News Honkai: Star Rail's Best Combat Event Returns in Massive Upcoming PS5 Update
Legend of the Galactic Baseballer is back
As a turn-based game, Honkai: Star Rail is always finding interesting ways to reinvent its combat system. This aspect of the HoYoverse outing is underrated, and while some modes are better than others, we really liked the Legend of the Galactic Baseballer from a few updates ago. This mode was presented as a...
Saturday3rd May 2025
Available from 11th July
After being announced an eternity ago, Honkai: Star Rail has finally revealed its first crossover content with Fate/Stay Night. The characters available from the legendary Type-Moon visual novel, which has had versions on both the PS2 and PS Vita, include: Archer (The Hunt, Quantum) Saber (Destruc
Thursday10th Apr 2025
News You Will Want This Stunning Honkai: Star Rail Art Book
Free for Chinese players who fulfil certain gameplay conditions
HoYoverse is releasing a gorgeous commemorative Honkai: Star Rail art book ahead of the game’s second anniversary, and players in mainland China can actually obtain it for free. The hardback book includes tons of artwork from the game, including character renders, concepts, and...
Friday28th Mar 2025
News PS5 RPG Honkai: Star Rail Celebrates Its Anniversary with an Abundance of Free Pulls
Old favourites getting big buffs in the future
Believe it or not, juggernaut turn-based RPG Honkai: Star Rail will celebrate its second anniversary next month – and it’ll be marking the occasion with an abundance of free pulls. Fans will be able to earn 20 Star Rail Special Passes just for logging in, while you’ll be able to pick a companion...
Monday17th Feb 2025
News Honkai: Star Rail's Adventures in Amphoreus Continue in Next PS5 Update
Titan time
For those of you who didn’t get a chance to play Honkai: Star Rail’s new Amphoreus update, it’s effectively an epic 10-hour JRPG storyline set against a loosely European-inspired backdrop involving multiple deities and an impending cataclysmic event. And that’s just part one of a plot that’s scheduled to run all year long. The...
Tuesday11th Feb 2025
News Honkai: Star Rail May Be Planning to Buff Older Characters in Upcoming PS5 Update
Power creep freak
Power creep is phrase that may be familiar to those of you who play live service gacha games. The idea is that older characters slowly get outperformed by newer ones, as developers aim to keep you spending on your roster. This means that, unless you’re investing heavily, it can become difficult to complete endgame content, as...
Thursday2nd Jan 2025
News Honkai: Star Rail's Biggest Ever PS5 Update Will Start a Year-Long Storyline
Amphoreus is almost here
Honkai: Star Rail’s anticipated v3.0 update will launch on 15th January, bringing with it a new location named Amphoreus and a fresh storyline. Said plot will be split into an enormous eight parts and will run all year. Let’s hope it’s good, eh? We won’t get into the full extent of the lore here – you can watch...
Saturday28th Dec 2024
The eternal land awaits
Need sobering up after a late night of New Year festivities? HoYoverse should have the goods, as it reveals Honkai: Star Rail’s next major destination, Amphoreus. A livestream, named Paean of Nova Era, will air on 1st January. The life of a gacha game is filled with regular updates, but every year or so, titles receive...
Friday13th Dec 2024
News HoYoverse Teases What's Next for PS5 Gacha Hits Honkai: Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero
Lots to look forward to
Two new trailers for PS5 gacha sensations Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero were released during The Game Awards, although for some reason Chinese juggernaut HoYoverse has failed to share the videos on its official channels. Nevertheless, we’ve sourced a couple of mirrors for you to watch. First up is a new look...
Friday22nd Nov 2024
News Honkai: Star Rail Teases Enormous Amphoreus Story Update for PS5
Travel to a new planet early next year
Honkai: Star Rail has been spinning its wheels for several updates now, but we’re finally on the home straight before major single player update Amphoreus arrives. Fans of the game will know the Nameless selected the planet as its next Trailblazing expedition earlier in the year, and here’s our very first...
Friday11th Oct 2024
Plus, become a band manager
The next Honkai: Star Rail update will mercifully move on from the Xianzhou Luofu, and take Trailblazers back to the more vibrant dream world, Penacony. Due out on 23rd October, v2.3 will introduce the Paperfold University, a prestigious academic academy “bustling with activity as it prepares for a new semester and its...
Wednesday11th Sep 2024
News This May Be the Most Pointless Boxed PS5 Game Ever
A real Trailblazer
Chinese juggernaut HoYoverse will flog a boxed copy of Honkai: Star Rail – despite the game being free-to-play and updated almost weekly. The retail release will come with some collectibles for fans, including nine gilded holographic character art cards, two chibi Trailblazer keyrings, a postcard, and some in-game items. This...
Friday30th Aug 2024
Life on the Luofu
Unlike Genshin Impact, which just received its massive new sequel-sized update, Honkai: Star Rail is padding time ahead of its next important story update. That’s brought the Trailblazer back to the Xianzhou Luofu, where they’re currently dealing with a prison break involving a particularly problematic enemy. That storyline...
Friday23rd Aug 2024
News Fate/Stay Night's Archer Looks Like a Lock for PS5 RPG Honkai: Star Rail
Bullseye
HoYoverse has boarded the hype train early for its Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works crossover, as it’s not set to launch for another year. But this new Honkai: Star Rail trailer – largely designed to tease impending original character Feixiao – is filled with Easter eggs, suggesting that Archer will be the PS5 RPG’s first...
Friday26th Jul 2024
News PS5 RPG Honkai: Star Rail Is Sponsoring the Paris Olympics in USA
Sign of the times
Want to know how big turnbased PS5 RPG Honkai: Star Rail is? It’s sponsoring NBC’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympics. We first saw images from the American television channel earlier today featuring the game’s logo, but now an X (or Twitter) account which specialises in gacha gaming has posted the full commercial. You can...
Friday19th Jul 2024
News Boba, Bare Feet, and Bins Headline Honkai: Star Rail's Big PS5 Update
A return to the Xianzhou Luofu
The next major Honkai: Star Rail update is coming 31st July, and it’s taking the Trailblazer back to the Xianzhou Luofu. Yeah, we know, we didn’t like the story much there either – but there’s an opportunity to start afresh here, as the Wardance Ceremony gets underway. This storyline is set to span two full...
Thursday13th Jun 2024
News Honkai: Star Rail's Next PS5 Update May Be One of Its Most Important Yet
Simulated Universe upgraded
Honkai: Star Rail grows unprecedentedly with each update cycle, but v2.3 may be its most important yet. While it’s not necessarily introducing a new planet, like Penacony previously, it’s adding a new thread of the roguelike mode Simulated Universe, which looks to significantly speed up the grind related to important...
Wednesday20th Mar 2024
News Here's More Proof We Need a Honkai: Star Rail Anime
Dance of dark memories
HoYoverse, with its absurd gacha-fuelled riches, has taken to releasing more and more animated shorts to promote its game’s updates. This latest five-minute Honkai: Star Rail clip delves a little deeper into the relationship between Black Swan and Acheron, the latter of whom will headline the v2.1 update which is launching...
Monday18th Mar 2024
News Honkai: Star Rail's Next Enormous PS5 Update Brings Huge Rewards and the Unmissable Acheron
Penacony's plot continues
Honkai: Star Rail’s gigantic v2.1 update will arrive on 27th March, and will celebrate the release’s first anniversary with 20 free Star Rail Passes and a further 1,600 in-game currency Stellar Jade – an announcement
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
Thursday8th Feb 2024
News Okay, Now We Need a Full-Length Honkai: Star Rail Anime
Here's how it could look
With the Lunar New Year upon us, Honkai: Star Rail is celebrating with an animated short centring on Guinaifen and Sushang from the Xianzhou Luofu. While this is, for all intents and purposes, a very short clip – it’s left us hungering for a full-length anime. Seeing the environments from the game brought to life, along...
Tuesday6th Feb 2024
News Honkai: Star Rail's Humongous PS5 Update Is Out Now
Penacony is open to all
Honkai: Star Rail, the superb space fantasy RPG from Chinese developer HoYoverse, has been updated to v2.0 on PS5 today – bringing with it an absolute avalanche of new content. The expansion continues the core plot of the turnbased title, taking the Trailblazer and his/her crew to an all-new planet featuring an art deco...
Friday26th Jan 2024
News Honkai: Star Rail's Humongous PS5 Update Adds an Entire Planet
The plot thickens on Penacony
HoYoverse’s hit space-faring RPG Honkai: Star Rail is all about the Trailblazer, an intergalactic explorer who travels from planet-to-planet solving problems and kicking ass. With the release of update v2.0, the ever-industrious developer will add an entire new location to the game, named Penacony. This former...
Friday15th Dec 2023
Huge update coming after Christmas
HoYoverse has hosted the next major livestream for Honkai: Star Rail’s upcoming v1.6 update, named Crown of the Mundane and Divine, which is scheduled to release on 27th December. Another colossal update for the uber-popular gacha, the content will include three new playable characters, fresh story content, and a...
Monday11th Dec 2023
News Here's Your First Glimpse of Honkai: Star Rail's New PS5 World
Penacony awaits
Honkai: Star Rail only launched on PS5 a few months ago, but the game’s approaching its first anniversary on all platforms. And next year, the Trailblazer will arrive on an entirely new planet, Penacony, as the main plot picks up pace again. For those of you who don’t play this turnbased RPG, it’s a single player live service...
Friday10th Nov 2023
News Honkai: Star Rail Exceeds 1 Million Players on PS5, Dishes Out Crucial Currency
Pulling 'em in
HoYoverse’s gacha gaming sensation Honkai: Star Rail has been played by over one million players on PS5, which means it’s rewards time for faithful fans. Free-to-play forays like this can generally manipulate their most engaged users with the lure of in-game currency, and if you create an account in the turn-based RPG before 24th...
Friday3rd Nov 2023
News Honkai: Star Rail's First Major PS5 Update Gets Spooky This Month
Assemble a ghost hunting squad in major new event
If Honkai: Star Rail is your first foray into the wonderful world of HoYoverse, then welcome to the party – and the seriously impressive churn of new content updates. Following the game’s release on PS5 a few weeks ago, it’s time to get ready for v1.5, the game’s next major expansion which...
