Genshin Impact Dev Is Investing In Nuclear Fusion To Save The World
MiHoYo has found fame as the developer behind the massively popular Genshin Impact, a gacha game known for its distinctive art style and memorable characters that have inspired tribalist loyalties, simping, and fan art. But did you know the Shanghai-based games studio is also an investor in cutting-edge technologies?
Last year, MiHoYo and the Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine established a joint lab to investigate brain-computer interface technology and how it could be applied to treat, for instance, depression using neuromodulation therapy. If this sounds pretty futuristic then MiHoYo is now pushing even further ahead as it has invested in nuclear fusion technology.
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MiHoYo has existed since 2012, but Genshin Impact - which launched in September 2020 - was its first global success and has helped the developer to make billions ever since. In its first year, for example, Genshin Impact made more than $2 billion alone, just from the mobile version, and the game has since expanded to PC and console versions. And it looks like MiHoYo is using some of these funds to invest in the R&D of advanced technologies.
Alongside Chinese investment firm NIO Capital, MiHoYo has led a $63 million funding round for a company called Energy Singularity. These funds will be used for research and development of a small tokamak device. But what is a tokamak?, I hear you cry.
It's related to nuclear fusion, which is the holy grail for energy production. Fusion reactors work by smashing atoms together to create new elements, like an artificial star, and it's what happens in the core of our very own sun. The energy given off by this process is
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