Tag: Hoyoverse
News HoYoverse's Action RPG Zenless Zone Zero Confirmed for Consoles
No specifics yet
The team behind super-popular games Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail are working on a third game that's sure to go nuclear as well — Zenless Zone Zero. This action RPG has previously only been confirmed for PC and mobile platforms, but with the above broadcast from Tokyo Game Show, it's now also been announced for consoles...
News Genshin Impact's Huge 4.1 Update Expands Fontaine and Adds New Characters
Fontaine edges upwards
Is it really time for the next big Genshin Impact update already? Well, almost – it’s due out on 27th September, so a little over a week away. As you’d expect from v4.1, there’ll be updates to new Hydro city Fontaine, which will expand upwards to the Fortress of Meropide. It’s there the Archon Quest will continue, as...
News RPG Gacha Extravaganza Honkai: Star Rail Plots a Course for PS5 Next Month
Console exclusive for a "limited time"
As confirmed by a delightfully moody trailer narrated by Stellaron Hunter (and key character) Kafka, the uber-popular turn-based gacha RPG Honkai: Star Rail will finally release on PS5 from 11th October. The small print at the end of the trailer mentions that the game is a PS5 console exclusive for a “limited...
News Genshin Impact's Acclaimed Composer Leaves HoYoverse to Pursue Musical Dreams
Will continue to explore Teyvat as a traveller
There’s a lot to love about open world gacha game Genshin Impact, but one of its most consistent elements is its soundtrack. So popular is the PS5 and PS4 game’s score that HoYoverse recently announced a series of global concerts, which will see the release’s music performed by live orchestras...
News Zenless Zone Zero Looks Like Yet Another HoYoverse Hit
Definitely won't make you zzz
We got a glimpse of Zenless Zone Zero during Gamescom Opening Night Live, but the trailer maybe wasn’t the best introduction to the title for those unfamiliar with the release. This gameplay showcase does a much better job of showing off the title, demonstrating its life-sim style lobby where you can play arcade games...
News Anticipated Gacha RPG Honkai: Star Rail Opens PS5 Technical Test Sign-Ups
Getting closer
Update: As previously announced, HoYoverse has opened sign ups for a technical test featuring the PS5 version of Honkai: Star Rail. It sounds like if you've already started on PC or mobile, cross-save will be supported, as long as your HoYoverse account is linked to your PSN. You'll also be able to continue your progress, on either PC...
News HoYoverse's Zenless Zone Zero Pulls a New Trailer, But Still No PS5, PS4 Confirmation
Lookin' good
HoYoverse, the developer of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, shared an update on its next game Zenless Zone Zero during Gamescom Opening Night Live – but there was no date or confirmation of consoles. The self-described urban action RPG showed off a bunch of characters and environmental art
News Honkai: Star Rail Confirms Cross-Save with Upcoming PS5 Version
More announcements at Gamescom
If, like this author, you’re already deep down the Honkai: Star Rail rabbit hole, with dozens of five-star characters and a wealth of valuable Relics sets to your name, you’ll probably be hoping for cross-save with the upcoming PS5 version. Well, buried in a press release about the game’s upcoming 1.30 update –...
News Meet the Cast That Will Consume All Your Cash in Genshin Impact This Week
A kind of magic
Genshin Impact’s hugely anticipated 4.0 update will release later this week, bringing with it the all-new Hydro region of Fontaine. Of course, the underwater city is not the only major addition, with two new characters available to recruit in the form of the magical double-act, Lyney and Lynette. Ahead of the latest content drop,...
Team was in tears
Gacha game Genshin Impact has gone on to become one of the most profitable projects on the planet, but this wasn’t always the case. Back when it was first announced, its comparisons to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild seemed so strong that many accused it of being a copycat. While these turned out to be surface...
News Genshin Impact's Gigantic Fontaine Expansion Plunges PS5, PS4 from 16th August
Along with improvements on PlayStation platforms
The Genshin Impact update you’ve been waiting for, Fontaine, is less than two weeks away: 16th August is the all-important date for the addition of the fifth region in HoYoverse’s hit gacha game. The upcoming 4.0 update, named As Light Rain Falls without Reason, will add a ton of new content to...
News HoYoverse Urges Recording Studio to Resolve Voice Actor Payment Issues
Update: After stars had claimed they'd gone months without pay
Update: Genshin Impact developer HoYoverse has issued a response to reports that some of its voice actors have gone months without being paid for their work. In a statement to Eurogamer.net, a spokesperson said: "We truly regret to learn about the ongoing situation. Genshin Impact...
News Honkai: Star Rail Playable on PS5 for the First Time at Gamescom
Zenless Zone Zero, Genshin Impact also on display
Chinese juggernaut HoYoverse is bringing all of its biggest games – sorry, Tears of Themis – to Gamescom next month, including a fully playable PS5 build of turnbased RPG Honkai: Star Rail. The spacefaring smash hit is scheduled to release on Sony’s system later this year, but this is the first...
News Honkai: Star Rail's Story Expands Significantly Prior to PS5 Launch
Even immortality ends
Those of you who’ve been playing Honkai: Star Rail since its release earlier in the year will know that the story ended on a significant cliffhanger, with the Trailblazer and Astral Express member Dan Heng searching for each other on the Xianzhou Luofu. After the last major update lacked any new story missions, the next major...
News Glitzy Genshin Impact Trailer Introduces Gacha's Glittering Cast of New Money Makers
Fontaine awaits
While the next Genshin Impact update is hours away, hit developer HoYoverse has been quietly looking further forward, as it continues to tease its enormous Fontaine storyline. Those familiar with the release cadence for the juggernaut open world RPG will know that each region brings with it new gameplay and, crucially, characters –...
News Genshin Impact Dives Deeper into Fontaine as 3.8 Update Nears
Under the sea
New region Fontaine was the star of another action-packed Genshin Impact update, in which developer HoYoverse revealed the upcoming v3.8 update, scheduled to arrive on 5th July, 2023. While fans will have to wait a little longer to explore the new underwater area, it looks like there should be plenty to keep you occupied in the...
News Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail Dev's Profits Eclipse Even PlayStation
Don't get Jaded
HoYoverse or miHoYo – the Chinese juggernaut responsible for games like Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail – has posted some absolutely startling financial results, confirming that its profits were greater than even PlayStation in its most recent fiscal year. While division Sony Interactive Entertainment’s overall revenue...
News Honkai: Star Rail, HoYoverse's Gacha Sensation, Shows First PS5 Footage
Launching later this year
Fans won’t have to wait forever for HoYoverse’s gacha sensation Honkai: Star Rail to release on PS5, as we got our very first glimpse of console footage during Summer Game Fest. A brand new trailer showed new arrival Silver Wolf hacking into the developer to grab some all-new gameplay from Sony’s system, and it’s...
News No Honkai: Star Rail PS5, PS4 Release Date in Galactic Roaming Reveal
Likely on hold until v1.2 now
After a brief delay to the livestream which left PS5 and PS4 owners on tenterhooks, there was no confirmation of a Honkai: Star Rail release date for Sony’s systems in the title’s latest broadcast. There had been some rumours that the previously announced PlayStation port of HoYoverse’s turnbased RPG would be made...
News Last Minute Honkai: Star Rail Livestream Delay Leaves PS5, PS4 Fans on Tenterhooks
Broadcast rescheduled
Update: About a minute before HoYoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail livestream was scheduled to get underway today, the video was hastily removed due to technical issues. Online chatter has since centred on an Earthquake affecting things, so first of all we sincerely hope everyone’s okay. The Chinese broadcast did go ahead,...
News Gargantuan Genshin Impact 3.7 Update Adds Cat Lady Kirara to PS5, PS4
Genius Invokation TCG gets major refresh
Genshin Impact’s ginormous v3.7 update is available to download now, and on PS5 specifically you’re looking at an update a little over 50GB, so make sure you’ve got the bandwidth to spare. To be fair, this is the game’s last major refresh before new region Fontaine is added later in the year, and...
News Genshin Impact's Next Big PS5, PS4 Update Goes Hard on Trading Cards
First look at Fontaine teased, too
The next major Genshin Impact update, due to get underway on 24th May, will bring with it a colossal update to the gacha game’s in-universe Genius Invokation TCG minigame. Revolving around the King of Invokations Grand Prix event, you can expect an enormous 60 brand-new TCG cards to seriously expand your...
News Genshin Impact's Next Major PS5, PS4 Update Will Be Revealed This Weekend
Fontaine ain't far away
You may be all about the Trailblazing life these days, but Genshin Impact’s release cadence waits for no one – not even HoYoverse’s hit spacefarer Honkai: Star Rail. The next big update to the Chinese developer’s big breakout is due imminently, and all will be revealed in a livestream on Saturday, 13th May. If...
News Honkai: Star Rail Surpasses 20 Million Downloads Ahead of PS5, PS4 Launch
All aboard
How big is Honkai: Star Rail? Unfathomably big – and it’s not even out on PS5 and PS4 yet. HoYoverse, the Chinese juggernaut also behind Genshin Impact, has confirmed that the free-to-play turnbased RPG has surpassed 20 million downloads just a day after its release on PC and smartphones. The number is double the amount of...
News Honkai: Star Rail PS5, PS4 Details Will Be Revealed Soon
PlayStation ports "under development"
HoYoverse released Honkai: Star Rail on PC and smartphones today after much anticipation, and in a press release it’s provided a small update on the PS5 and PS4 versions of the game. Announced earlier in the year, the Chinese juggernaut said that the PlayStation versions are “under development” right now,...
