‘No Man’s Sky’ settles legal issue with Sky TV over its name

In case you forgot, once upon a time Microsoft OneDrive was called SkyDrive. Why did they change the name? Well, a UK television broadcaster, Sky TV, apparently owns the word “sky” and won a court battle against Microsoft back in 2014. Indie game No Man’s Sky almost had to change its name for the same reason. Its developer Hello Games has been engaged in a three-year legal battle with the TV broadcaster but it seems the issue has finally been settled. Hello Games’s founder Sean Murray shared the news on Twitter without going into detail about the deal. We can’t say either if this is the reason why the game got delayed for another two months and is coming out on August 9^th.

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‘No Man’s Sky’ release pushed back to August

We’ve been waiting three years since No Man’s Sky was introduced but it looks like we have to wait a wee bit more. Hello Games, No Man’s Sky’s developer, announced that they will be pushing the North American release of the game to August 9^th after it was previously announced to be released next month for both the Sony PlayStation 4 and PC. Hello Games’s Sean Murray said the delay is due to “some key moments needed extra polish to bring them up to our standards.” And with such a gigantic release backed by lots of hype, Murray is right to say that they needed to get this right: “For all our sakes though, we get one shot to make this game and we can’t mess it up.”

To say that No Man’s Sky is an ambitious sci-fi game is an understatement. The game is set in a procedurally-generated universe that has over 18 quintillion planets that you can explore. Each of these planets have their own unique ecosystems and wildlife. And while every player is going to be in the same virtual universe, with that amount of virtual planets, it’ll become unlikely you’d run into someone there, making its players usually the first people to step into a particular planet.

Source: PlayStation Blog | Via: The Verge