Genshin Impact Developer miHoYo is Investing in Nuclear Fusion Technology

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Genshin Impact has become a global phenomenon since its arrival back at the end of 2020. The game uses a gacha system which is extremely popular among mobile game players. Gacha games allow players to buy loot boxes that drop random content which can be anything from weapons to powerful characters.

The game's developer miHoYo has existed since 2012, but Genshin Impact and its success was surely a turning point for the studio. In the game's first year of existence, multiple reports have revealed that Genshin Impact made around $2 billion just from the mobile version, and the game has since expanded to multiple platforms.

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It looks like Genshin Impact's developer miHoYo is using some of these funds to invest in the research and development of advanced technologies. According to Pandaily, miHoYo has joined NIO Capital, a Chinese investment firm, to lead a $65 million funding for the development in nuclear fusion science. To be more precise, the money will go directly into making a miniature tokamak, which is a magnetic confinement device developed to control thermonuclear fusion power.

MiHoYo is a Chinese-based developer and this research will surely improve the country's chance to hit its goal of achieving carbon neutrality in the future. This is just one of the developer's investments in technological research. Last year it helped the Shanghai University School of Medicine to establish a brain-computer interface technology lab that will focus on treating depression and neuromodulation therapy, among other things.

Unlike most gacha games, Genshin Impact's player count keeps going up with each new update. One of the main reasons for the game's