Alibaba’s cloud services unit, Genshin Impact creator miHoYo continue decade-long partnership with new global hit game Honkai: Star Rail

Alibaba Cloud is providing ‘high-performance and stable computing resources’ for miHoYo’s latest hit video game Honkai: Star Rail

The new game serves as the fourth instalment of Shanghai-based developer miHoYo’s Honkai series, which is set in a fictional multiverse

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Released worldwide on April 26, Honkai: Star Rail has now surpassed Genshin Impact as the biggest global launch of any Chinese video game after amassing 20 million downloads within the first day of its release. Photo: Twitter

Ann Caoin Shanghai

Published: 10:30pm, 11 May 2023Updated: 6:12pm, 12 May 2023

Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing services subsidiary on Thursday said its infrastructure is supporting Genshin Impact creator miHoYo’s latest global hit video game, Honkai: Star Rail, which continues a decade-long relationship with the renowned Shanghai-based studio.

Honkai: Star Rail, released outside mainland China via miHoYo’s global publishing subsidiary HoYoverse, is a role-playing anime game that serves as the fourth instalment of the developer’s Honkai series, which is set in a fictional multiverse.

Alibaba Cloud said in a statement that it provides “high-performance and stable computing resources that allow the game to run stably and smoothly”, as Honkai: Star Rail requires large-scale resource deployment and strong infrastructure support capabilities.

Alibaba Group Holding is the owner of the South China Morning Post.

Released worldwide on April 26, Honkai: Star Rail has now surpassed Genshin Impact as the biggest global launch of any Chinese video game after amassing 20 million downloads within the first day of its release.

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