The Almighty Arataki Great

The next event is actually a rhythm game that Arataki Itto will organize to celebrate Kuki Shinobu’s law graduation. In this event, each stage will have three difficulties: Normal, Hard, and Pro players will be asked to create their own musical challenges to share with other users.

Lost Riches 3.0

Lost Riches is back, and much like its previous versions, your goal is finding ancient artifacts and exchanging them for more practical treasures – including a new green Seelie pet!

Tablet Analytics

Tablet Analytics is another combat event featuring trial characters, but this time, you have less control over the battle situation. Take advantage of random buffs and clear challenges of increasing difficulty for a chance to win Primogems and ascension materials.

Fayz Trials

Fayz Trials is Genshin 3.0’s main combat event. Use a special potion to stop time and deal incredible damage with a party of trial characters for a chance to earn Primogems and more.

Graven Innocence

This is the update’s main event. The toymakers of Port Ormos need your help to create something new and fabulous, so off you go around Sumeru, completing challenges and defeating enemies to bring back what they need. There’s plenty of rewards to earn, but you also get to invite Collei for free just by taking … Read more

Awards

Apple awarded Genshin Impact with “iPhone Game of the Year” in the App Store Best of 2020 and the 2021 Apple Design Awards for Visuals and Graphics. At the TapTap Game Awards 2020, the game won “Game of the Year”. The game was also nominated for Best RPG and Best Mobile Game at The Game … Read more

Reception

Genshin Impact received “generally favorable reviews” according to review aggregator Metacritic. The open world of Teyvat drew praise; IGN‘s Travis Northup described Teyvat as “a world that is absolutely bursting at the seams with possibilities”, and Hardcore Gamer‘s Jordan Helm described it as “one big environmental puzzle”. Liyue in particular was picked out by Kotaku‘s … Read more

Security concerns

The game has been criticized for initially lacking security features ubiquitous on other sites, like two-factor authentication. On October 19, 2020, a vulnerable security flaw was discovered that exposed the phone number linked to a player’s account during the password recovery attempt on the miHoYo website, however the issue was not rectified until November 9, … Read more

Controversies

When the game was first unveiled at the ChinaJoy convention in 2019, it was initially met with criticisms claiming that the game had similarities to Breath of the Wild. Zelda fans at the convention showed explicit gestures towards the Sony booth, with one individual destroying their PlayStation 4 console in protest. Shortly after release, players … Read more

Release

The worldwide release, September 28, was announced on August 17 for PC and mobile platforms, and on August 28 it revealed that the PlayStation 4 version would be releasing on the same date. The game was made available on PlayStation 5 through backwards compatibility on November 11. On April 28, 2021, the PlayStation 5 version … Read more