No Man’s Sky tops the UK sales charts

Whether it’s acknowledged as multiplayer or not — and whether you experienced bugs and unplayability over the weekend — No Man’s Sky is already setting records and pushing GTA V around.

GamesIndustry.biz reports that thanks to its launch last week, the game sits at the tippy-top of the UK retail charts — that makes it Sony’s biggest launch for a new IP ever. (Uncharted 4 was bigger, but it wasn’t a new IP.)

Yesterday, MOP’s Tina Lauro Pollock examined the game’s mechanics and procedural generation through an MMO player’s lens, declaring it “mechanically genius.”