Genshin Impact 4.2 and Honkai: Star Rail 1.5 details revealed in HoYoverse double-bill livestream

If you're in the mood for a veritable buffet of news about the world's most popular anime gacha games, today is your day, because Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail both aired special program livestreams detailing their next updates.This is the first time that special program livestreams for both games have taken place on the same day, thanks to the Genshin Impact stream being delayed from last Friday (October 27th). This is speculated to have occurred as a result of the death of former Chinese premier Li Keqiang on the same day the program was originally planned to air, although HoYoverse haven't given an official reason. Whatever the cause, the knock-on effect of the delay was that, for the first time, preview livestreams for both of HoYoverse's flagship games aired back-to-back.So what's new? Well, over on the Star Rail side, it's a little disappointing that there's still no sign of a playable Screwllum, despite his prominence in recent key art seeming like an obvious tease — on V1.4 promotional materials he replaced March 7th, one of the game's actual main characters, so you'd think they were building to something with him, right? Ah well, at least the new update will include a minigame where you help March with her photography, so she's not been entirely usurped. Read more