MiHoYo

is a Chinese video game development and publishing studio based in Shanghai, China. The company is the creator of various video games including Zenless Zone Zero, its most popular titles being , , and .
In addition to games, miHoYo has created a variety of products such as animations, comics, music, novels, and merchandise. The original music for miHoYo's media is produced by its own music studio , led by music director Jinhan "Zoe" Cai ().
Since February 2022, miHoYo's subsidiary Cognosphere Pte. Ltd. d/b/a HoYoverse is responsible for all of the company's global operations outside of China.
==History==
miHoYo was founded in 2011miHoYo - About Us by three computer science students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Wei "Forrest"The Adventure Comes to PlayStation®4 on September 28 Liu (), also known as Da Wei (), who acts as the company's general president; Haoyu "Hugh"GDC Vault - Genshin Impact: Crafting an Anime Style Open World Cai (), the company's CEO and lead producer, and Yuhao Luo (). The three shared an interest for technology and ACG (abbreviation of "anime, comics, and games") culture.
CiCi as an undergraduate student joined the group and later became the lead artist for Honkai Impact 3rd. He later participated in character design for Genshin Impact.Developer Insight #4: Character Stories (I) - "Vigilant Yaksha" Xiao Tianwen was the company's first programmer."Honkai Impact 3rd x Neon Genesis Evangelion" Interview - "Pursuit of Dreams"
===Timeline===
* In 2011, miHoYo released their first title FlyMe2theMoon on the iOS platform as an indie developer.
* In 2012, miHoYo Co., Ltd. was registered. The first game released after the company founding was Honkai Gakuen on iOS platform. (Because of its 32-bit kernel, Honkai Gakuen is now hidden on App Store after iOS 12.)
* In 2014, they released Honkai Gakuen 2 (which serves as a replacement of original Honkai Gakuen).
** The project of Honkai Impact 3rd was started in the same year with a 7-person team.每日游戏菌 (September 11, 2018). 崩坏3上线两年 老玩家们的评价集锦. bilibili.
** Since then, they have seen success releasing anime-style games that primarily appealed to mobile gamers. The majority of their early titles were successful within Asia, however they would not reach global success until the release of Honkai Impact 3rd.Ye, Josh (December 5, 2018). "This hit anime schoolgirl game looks Japanese, but it's from China". South China Morning Post.
* On October 14, 2016, Honkai Impact 3rd was released in China.
** It was the first miHoYo game released worldwide. Other servers were publicly opened months later: February 22, 2017 for Japan; May 18, 2017 for Taiwan; October 17, 2017 for Korea; November 1, 2017 for South East Asia; March 28, 2018 for North America and Europe.
* On May 31, 2019, Cooking with Valkyries, the anime adaption of Honkai Impact 3rd was announced, and broadcasted starting from June 28, 2019.
* In June 2019, Genshin Impact was announced, and had its first Closed Beta Test on June 21.
* In July 2019, Tears of Themis was announced with its first PV on July 29.
* On December 18, 2019, on the NVIDIA GTC China 2019 conference, Huang Renxun disclosed miHoYo's development of a third-person shooter game code-named "Project X," which will be released in 2021 and supports ray tracing technology.
* On July 30, 2020, Tears of Themis was released.
* On August 4, 2020, N0va Desktop, miHoYo's first dynamic desktop wallpaper software, was released on PC.
* On September 15, 2020, Genshin Impact was released with PC technical open test, and was simultaneously released globally on September 28. 
** Genshin Impact is one of their most popular games with 17 million downloads within release week and makes $6 million a day.Chan, Khee Hoon (March 3, 2021). "Mobile games have quietly exploded". Polygon.
* On December 1, 2020, N0va Desktop was released on Android.
* On October 5, 2021, Honkai: Star Rail was announced, and had its first Closed Beta Test on October 27.
* On February 14, 2022, the HoYoverse brand was unveiled as the trade name of Cognosphere and all of miHoYo's operations outside of China were moved under this brand, with global-facing mihoyo.com subdomains redirected to hoyoverse.com subdomains (but not Chinese subdomains)."Presenting the New Brand HoYoverse: Aiming to Provide Global Players With an Immersive Virtual World Experience". HoYoverse.
* On April 26, 2023, Honkai: Star Rail was released worldwide for iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows. It released for PlayStation 5 on October 11th, 2023 globally.
==Games Developed==
Year	Title 	Title 	Title 	Genre 	Platform
Year	English 	Chinese 	Japanese 	Genre 	Platform
2011	FlyMe2theMoonWho Exactly is Genshin Impact Developer miHoYo?, accessed November 22, 2020.	FlyMe2theMoonWho Exactly is Genshin Impact Developer miHoYo?, accessed November 22, 2020.	FlyMe2theMoonWho Exactly is Genshin Impact Developer miHoYo?, accessed November 22, 2020.	RPG,Paid 	iOS
2012	Zombiegal Kawaii 	 	 	Shooter,Paid 	iOS
2014	Houkai Gakuen 2(Guns Girl Z) 	 	 	Shooter,Gacha 	iOS, Android
2016	Honkai Impact 3rd 	 	 	Hack'n'Slash, Action ‎RPG, Gacha	iOS, Android, PC
2020	Genshin Impact 	 	 	Action RPG, Gacha 	iOS, Android, PC, PS4, PS5
2020	Tears of Themis 	 	 	Adventure,Gacha 	iOS, Android
2023	Honkai: Star Rail 	 	 	Turn-based Strategy
RPG 	iOS, Android, PC, PS5, GeForce Now
2024	Zenless Zone Zero 	 	 	Action RPG, 
Roguelike 	iOS, Android, PC, PS5
==Trivia== 
* Liu Wei personally explained the origin of the name miHoYo at the 2019 campus recruitment of Zhejiang University, that:【米哈游校招2019】大伟哥现场宣讲！杭州浙大校园招聘会. bilibili.
** H and Y are the initial letters of the names of the co-founders, and (while Liu Wei himself is the mascot);
** HoYo is because they thought the popular companies' names all have two letter O, e.g. Google, Microsoft, Facebook;
** mi is because that the name HoYo has already been registered by others, and they had to add more letters; they thus borrowed the mi from otaku's favorite — , and finally the name became miHoYo.
==References==
==External Links==
*Official Website (miHoYo)
*Official Website (HoYoverse)
*bilibili
*Sina Weibo