With the release of games like Overwatch, Dishonored 2, Stellaris, and DOOM (just to name a few), 2016 certainly had no shortage of (generally) well-received titles. By the time the holiday season…
January 6, 2017 | 01:00 EST
I think most of us are still a bit shocked over Hello Games breaking the months-long silence after the release of the controversial space exploration game No Man's Sky. The recent surprise release of…
December 6, 2016 | 09:30 EST
Earlier this year, we reported that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK had begun an investigation into Hello Games and Valve regarding No Man's Sky after multiple people had filed…
November 30, 2016 | 10:51 EST
Anyone who has played No Man's Sky can tell you how unbearable traversing a planet by foot is. It's slow, the jetpack adds no real momentum and if you ever find yourself too far away from your ship…
November 28, 2016 | 07:00 EST
In the months since the release of No Man’s Sky, developer Hello Games has been nearly radio silent on the entire project, quietly updating the game with patches related solely to fixing major bugs.…
November 28, 2016 | 11:00 EST
The space exploration game No Man's Sky has released its first major update: the Foundation Update. We've seen indications that a 2.7 GB patch is live on PlayStation 4 right now, but the update does…
November 27, 2016 | 08:25 EST
Hello Games have finally broken their silence regarding No Man's Sky. In an announcement on Steam, Hello Games have stated that the team will be releasing an update to No Man's Sky, titled the…
November 25, 2016 | 04:07 EST
Update Hello Games has posted a Tweet explaining the situation with the contradictory emails and the original tweet there. Apparently, they were all fake, aside from Sean Murray's personal account…
October 28, 2016 | 11:47 EDT
The controversial launch of Hello Games' No Man's Sky has left many wondering what happened during the development of the Sony-backed indie game. The game was in many ways completely different from…
September 28, 2016 | 12:36 EDT
Explore a vast galaxy comprised of 18 quintillion procedurally generated planets as you try to make your way to the center of the galaxy. From the Steam store description: Inspired by the adventure…
September 18, 2016 | 02:11 EDT
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Steam is not giving out automatic refunds for No Man's Sky regardless of the amount of time played. It was reported earlier on reddit that some players…
August 27, 2016 | 10:11 EDT
No Man's Sky has seen a rough week. On top of news regarding stagnating sales for the game on Steam, a lot of customers being upset about launch bugs and Hello Games' Sean Murray flip-flopping on…
August 21, 2016 | 06:51 EDT
No Man's Sky has had one of the most successful launches of a game commercially this year. While we don't have full numbers from Hello Games, or detailed numbers from PlayStation, we do know that the…
August 20, 2016 | 10:33 EDT
Its pretty clear that No Man's Sky might be the most divisive game to have been released in quite some time. While it would have been easy to talk about what I personally don't like about the game…
August 17, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Have you ever looked up to the sky, and wonder what is out there? What sort of worlds, creatures or discoveries could you unfold? These starry-eyed dreams of what’s beyond our planet, uncovering a…
August 16, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
Controversy and problems are nothing new to Hello Games since the launch of their space game No Man's Sky. Between confusion over multiplayer, pc launch issues, data mining, and more there's been…
August 15, 2016 | 07:37 EDT
One of the models hiding in the No Man's Sky files.No Man's Sky is the new big popular space simulation that everyone is talking about and it has face its fair share of criticism after its console…
August 15, 2016 | 01:47 EDT
Hello Games has announced some patch details, including workarounds for the current bugs and issues for the PC version of No Man's Sky. Right off the heels of the poor PC release, the…
August 13, 2016 | 09:18 EDT
The PC release of No Man's Sky has been rough, to say the least. Some major optimization issues and game crashing bugs have been reported, leading to a massive backlash against the PC version…
August 13, 2016 | 12:15 EDT
This is why you don't pre-order video games. Despite the arguments around review copies and the media, No Man's Sky PC port has shown that the lack of information and review copies available can…
August 12, 2016 | 04:10 EDT
After three years, a ton of hype, and a bunch of anger, No Man’s Sky is here, finally, in our hands. And with it, comes controversy. The recent hubbub over the apparent lack of multiplayer in the…
August 11, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Two players of No Man's Sky claim to have already run across one another in the game's expansive world. Moreover, even though they seem to be in precisely the same exact spot on the same exact planet…
August 10, 2016 | 12:20 EDT
It's been a busy week leading up to the release of No Man's Sky for Hello Games and Sony, with plenty of leaks, new information, and more coming out. This evening Hello Games' Sean Murray took to…
August 5, 2016 | 10:07 EDT
No Man's Sky is releasing early next week, and even after the trophy list was leaked to the public, some final bits of news are still trickling in. Two bits of information regarding the first…
August 5, 2016 | 12:24 EDT
While it's been slightly delayed on PC, the release of No Man's Sky is quickly approaching. Right now, there are a ton of leaks on the Internet, largely based on one fan who paid over $1300 for an…
August 1, 2016 | 01:48 EDT
With the highly anticipated release of Hello Games' space sandbox No Man's Sky coming out in a little over a week, the hype is slowly reaching critical mass. The promise of a vast universe to explore…
July 30, 2016 | 11:06 EDT
When it comes to No Man's Sky, the multiplayer aspect of the game has never been that clear. Even though the game does have multiplayer according to its creators, though not in the traditional sense…
July 26, 2016 | 01:51 EDT
UPDATE: Sean Murray from Hello Games posted on Twitter today about the patent allegations. Murray says No Man's Sky does not use the "superformula" in question, nor infringe on any patents. He goes…
July 21, 2016 | 12:57 EDT
E3 is right around the corner and its time for a few predictions! Sony has held strong as the Playstation 4 is arguably the leading game console. It's an exciting time to be a Playstation fan with so…
June 10, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
With the recent news of No Man's Sky now delayed to August, Hello Games director Sean Murray is reported to have received death threats over the titles delay. In a recent twitter post (below),…
May 31, 2016 | 09:20 EDT
At its core, E3 is the rough equivalent of having your parents tell you what you are getting for Christmas ahead of time. You've got all these big developers and publishers going on stage and…
May 30, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Well, it's official now and it appears the rumors were correct; No Man's Sky has been delayed. Hello Games founder and head developer on No Man's Sky, Sean Murray, revealed today that the game…
May 28, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
A big rumor is claiming that No Man's Sky is being delayed. The rumor began with Kotaku, who have reported two specific sources that have pointed to the current release date for No Man's Sky,…
May 25, 2016 | 10:54 EDT
First revealed way back in December of 2013, No Man’s Sky has been making waves in the gaming industry ever since. The developers over at Hello Games have taken on one of the biggest projects in…
April 26, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
The illusive exploration game No Man's Sky has officially been given a release date! You'll be able to lift off into uncharted territory on the 21st of June. In a post on the official…
March 3, 2016 | 03:20 EST
2016 is an exciting year for people like me. With the advancing technology edging us forever closer to the promise of being able to explore actual universes it becomes increasingly less of a problem…
February 26, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Ever since I was a little kid wistfully looking up at the stars, I've always longed for a chance of going up there myself to see the universe a bit closer than I can from down here. Since a career as…
January 5, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Sony's Paris Game Week Media Briefing has been showing off a lot of new games coming to the console. The livestreamed event contained a particularly nice surprise - the much-awaited title No Man's…
October 27, 2015 | 03:27 EDT
Following the conclusion of the New Yorker Festival's Tech@Fest panel Cyber Privacy: Who Owns Your Information? (which I covered for TechRaptor here), I had about an hour to grab a bite to eat and…
October 6, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
It is really hard to describe the allure of No Man's Sky. For such an ambitious, overreaching game, it has certainly made a significant impact in the past year and a half with constant updates…
August 30, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Along with Star Citizen, the spiraling Kickstarter darling, and already-released Elite:Dangerous, No Man's Sky is one of the three biggest new space sim IPs of 2015. Hello Games CEO Sean Murray sat…
June 17, 2015 | 12:36 EDT
Sony has unveiled some gameplay for No Man's Sky. The gameplay for No Man's Sky shows off traversing space, the grand scope of the game itself and choosing a planet to land on and explore. No Man's…
June 15, 2015 | 10:32 EDT
Welcome back to the Mother's Day edition of the Screenshot Survey, where tweets are discussed, pixels are praised, and hidden gems are discovered. Some of the most interesting projects that share…
May 10, 2015 | 03:05 EDT
The Playstation Experience has been full of trailers, sneak peeks and ideas of the year ahead, and No Man's Sky got a time to get up on the stage as well and speak for itself. Sean, from Hello…
December 6, 2014 | 11:32 EST
We were shown an absolutely beautiful trailer for No Mans Sky from Hello Games. The whole game is procedurally generated. We saw some things on a planet with crazy plants and dinosaurs before flying…
June 9, 2014 | 11:09 EDT
It’s easy to be skeptical when a console franchise comes to iOS. There’s always the suspicion of a cheap cash-in or a game not suited to the new platform. This latter worry is especially true in…
January 30, 2014 | 09:00 EST