For this patch our focus was on the most reported bugs or crashes. Our aim was to improve stability, and make sure player’s saves are safe in future. Stuck under the world It was possible for players to save their game stuck under the terrain, leaving them stuck. This was caused by getting shot...View Article
The focus of this patch was to add greater support for more hardware. Either specific hardware configs, or hardware outside our min spec. We want as many people to be able to play as possible, and these were our most reported issues. AMD Phenom Support Game is now confirmed working on Phenom CPUs. Thousands...View Article
We’re tracking a number of issues, bugs and crashes that players are reporting with No Man’s Sky, and working to resolve as soon as possible. The number of people players, and length of average play session, has been far more than our small team could have anticipated. That said, we’re working quickly to...View Article
WHAT DO YOU DO IN NO MAN’S SKY? We’re coming up to launch and I’m feeling nostalgic, so I went back and I dug out some old builds. Here’s some screenshots just a few weeks in: Here it is 6 months in: Sitting down to write the first lines of code five years ago,...View Article
Update 1.03 When we went gold five or six week ago, we posted on twitter, and literally every reply was like “hope you are going on a nice holiday!”. Some of us have, but I didn’t want to, not yet. I pictured myself somewhere staring out the window thinking about this game I’ve been working...View Article
Hello, Sean here, working super, super hard on No Man’s Sky. Every day, the game is getting better and better, and despite all the late nights (and early mornings) we’re all working to get it finished and in your hands, it’s amazing to see it all coming together. You might already know this, but we had...View Article
So we have come to the end of a second month of IGN First for No Man’s Sky! Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the new footage we’ve been able to share, as well as the behind-the-scenes interviews with our team. We’ve closed the month with our biggest interview to date, a wide-ranging 60 minute ‘Unfiltered’ conversation with IGN’s...View Article
Today, we wanted to show you something new, a little bit of how we approach lore and storytelling in our universe. It’s a bit different to what you might be used to with some other games. With a universe as open as ours – with a near infinite number of planets out there to see...View Article
No Man’s Sky is procedurally generated, but we always want it to have a unique recognisable style, to look like a science fiction book cover come to life. This is only possible because of our super-talented art team. When we talk about No Man’s Sky, we like to talk about the maths involved in creating...View Article
Last month saw the biggest reveal for the game since our nerve-wracking debut at the VGX Awards. We showed a small demo to hundreds of journalists from around the world, who called the game “breathtakingly beautiful” (Wired) and “insanely exciting” (io9). It was lovely to show the game to real people – including IGN as part...View Article