Mihoyo's new video game tops download charts
HONG KONG: A new game released by "Genshin Impact" developer miHoYo this week has become China's top downloaded app, reflecting pent-up demand as gaming giants restart flagship launches with a crackdown on the industry easing. The blockbuster debut bodes well for several other games due to launch this summer in the world's largest video games market. As of Thursday, the Shanghai-based company's strategy Game "Honkai: Star Rail", where anime characters battle space monsters, had amassed 20 million download s across smartphones and personal computers, miHoYo said. The game scored more than 1.6 million downloads on smartphones in China within five hours after it was published on Wednesday, according to data firm App Magic, and had garnered 5.8 million downloads on smartphones worldwide. It has also become the most downloaded game on Apple's devices across 21 different markets including the US and Japan, according to another data firm SensorT...