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Genshin Impact

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Genshin Impact is a media franchise built on the action role-playing video game developed and published by the Chinese studio miHoYo, whose international arm HoYoverse handles distribution outside China. The game launched on September 28, 2020, for Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, and Windows, and is set in the open, anime-styled world of Teyvat. It is free to play and monetized through gacha mechanics under a games-as-a-service model, and has become one of the most commercially successful video games of its era.

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Start Year
2020 1
Country
China 1
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Created By

Cai Haoyu, Figures
Source Genshin Impact - Wikipedia

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Source Genshin Impact - Wikipedia
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1. Genshin Impact - Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    The game was released on September 28, 2020
  • Lead
    It is distributed outside China by miHoYo's international subsidiary Cognosphere, also known as HoYoverse.
  • In Medium: Video Games, Article lead sentence
    Genshin Impact ( GHEN-shin; Chinese: 原神; pinyin: Yuánshén; lit. 'Primordial God') is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed and published by miHoYo.
  • Created By: Cai Haoyu, Infobox: producer
    Cai Haoyu
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