Genshin Impact developer miHoYo is spending its massive cash on experimental power sources

Genshin Impact has made fairly the, nicely, affect since its 2020 debut. Not even a full two years later, developer miHoYo has achieved huge success with the surprisingly enjoyable and deep (and naturally free-to-play) game. Now the studio is branching out into extra non-gaming ventures that would have their very own affect on the long run.

As reported in Beijing’s PanDaily, miHoYo and Chinese funding agency NIO Capital are placing $63 million into analysis and improvement at Energy Singularity, an organization that’s constructing “the next generation of high-performance fusion devices.” PC Gamer concisely explains what this probably means for the way forward for power. Nuclear fusion (versus fission) is a theoretical type of power manufacturing with little or no waste. If achieved, it may have a big affect (there’s that phrase once more) on the struggle in opposition to local weather change. That’s what Energy Singularity is aiming for, and investments from firms like miHoYo might help it get there.

miHoYo made one other games-adjacent enterprise not too long ago. Just two weeks in the past from the time of this writing, it introduced HoYoverse, which seeks to mix “games, anime, and other entertainment” underneath one banner. It’s already produced issues like anime, manga, music, and even desktop apps round its IP, so a full-on universe of content material does look like the pure subsequent step. Meanwhile, miHoYo’s latest studio, positioned in Montreal, Canada, is growing an open-world paranormal shooter.