After delays, anticipation, and a few death threats along the way, No Man’s Sky is finally out! On console, anyhow; PC users are going to have to wait a little bit longer, although the team is still in the building hard at work on getting the PC release going. The game’s release has been accompanied by a heartfelt message to reviewers in the Australian neck of the woods.
So how’s the actual game shaping up? Well, for one thing, players hoping for a multiplayer component as an active element of play will be sadly disappointed, as Hello Games has made it clear that actually meeting another player is incredibly unlikely. Early impressions have also stressed that the game’s survival aspects are more of a driving element than the exploration, with the exploration more of a requirement to survive than something you simply do. Check out a roundup of our own coverage below, and let us know if you’re enjoying the game’s console launch or waiting for the PC launch down in the comments.
No Man’s Sky is adding full multi-platform cross-saves, a PS5 Pro edition, and an old Mass Effect ship - Whenever Hello Games' Sean Murray starts dropping teasers on social media, you know something good is coming to No Man's Sky: Today, the studio has announced three separate chunks of good news and content coming to…
No Man’s Sky launches its spoopy 16th expedition, The Cursed, just in time for Halloween - Well now this is a treat: While most MMOs have a Halloween event these days, it's not quite as common to get an entire update that fits perfectly with the season, and yet that's exactly what…
No Man’s Sky’s soundtrack is on the bill for a November 4 charitable games music concert - If you can travel to the Electric Theatre in Guilford, UK, like the music out of No Man's Sky, and are looking to help out a good cause, then you're in luck because all three of…
No Man’s Sky’s Aquarius expedition is here with fishing, diving, and skiffs - You're 'bout to have that Aquarius song from Hair stuck in your head for a few days, and I'm sure Hello Games is sorry about that, but yes, No Man's Sky's next big thing is here,…
Snail Games reveals For The Stars, a sprawling new multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox - Snail Games has just unveiled a brand-new AAA MMO, not that it's calling it an MMO: For The Stars is being billed by Snail as a "space-themed open universe survival title" with an "ambitious persistent multiplayer…
The No Man’s Sky Worlds ‘universe refresh’ is why you’re playing No Man’s Sky this weekend - You know that whenever Hello Games and Sean Murray start dropping cryptic teasers so they'll trend on Reddit, a new No Man's Sky update is on the way, and so it is today: The studio has…
No Man’s Sky’s Adrift expedition offers a lonely and hostile ‘alternative universe’ - No Man's Sky has spent years shoring up its MMO bona fides, and now, it's doing the opposite with today's Adrift update, which shrinks it all back down. "[I] have great memories of early unreleased versions…
Planet Crafter is a new multiplayer survival sandbox where you geo-engineer an entire planet - Last week, multiplayer survival sandbox were treated to yet another entry in the field: Planet Crafter, a game I've had on my own wishlist for ages - and it's now fully out of early access and…
No Man’s Sky launches Orbital update with major upgrades for space stations - Whenever Hello Games starts sticking little cutesy icons in its tweets, you know a No Man's Sky launch is imminent, so Monday's little start emoji was an obvious clue. That launch is now here in the…
Heck yeah, Valve is finally fixing Steam Family Sharing so it doesn’t suck - Last night, Valve announced a major - and long-awaited and desperately needed - revamp of its existing "family sharing" system so good that actual, real-life, not-at-all-fictional gamer families will want to use it. If you're already…
Hey game devs, stop namedropping Star Wars Galaxies and make a spiritual successor - If you're an MMORPG gamer who watches the mainstream gaming space, you probably know that most gaming sites take any opportunity they can get to take a giant dump all over MMOs, especially classic and sunsetted…
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs - Robots are, let's face it, very important. You might say that's not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the columns, you get a rebuttal, but otherwise hush up. Robots are the…
Did you like all that free No Man’s Sky? Have some more: It’s F2P again this weekend - It's wild to me that not everyone owns No Man's Sky already, given how cheap it gets on Steam sale and how much content is packed into the buy-to-play title. But apparently, a ton of people…
No Man’s Sky is temporarily free-to-play through Monday as Omega launches - If you already own No Man's Sky, then you're in for a treat today as the Omega update has launched for you. But if you don't already own No Man's Sky, then you're also in for…
End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMORPGs at the end of 2023 - I have been told that if I start another one of these columns musing on the abstract meaning of "value" as I have for the past several years, I will be mailed a jar full of…
No Man’s Sky rounds out a busy 2023 with expedition and cartographer ‘remixes’ - You can't take the sky from No Man's Sky because it's in the title and because that game owns outer space in a way that most persistent worlds would dream to do. And to wrap up…
Light No Fire aka No Man’s Skyrim might be the survival MMO you’ve been waiting for - Far and away the most interesting new-game announcement to come out of last night's The Game Awards was Light No Fire. Granted, it wasn't the best show for multiplayer titles to begin with as we noted…
The Game Awards 2023: Light No Fire, Warframe, Skull and Bones, Palia, Bellwright - (Scroll down to the end for the recap of everything MMOsy!) The Game Awards have become one of the key games industry productions of the year, not so much for the awards themselves but for the…
End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2023 - When it comes to making a judgment call about the "healthiest" MMORPGs on the market at any given time, there are always plenty of rebuttals on hand to denounce such a list. No MMO is in…
The Stream Team: Seduced by No Man’s Sky ship restoration - There is a vast universe to travel in No Man's Sky, and Massively OP's MJ wants to explore it all... in order to find the resources to finish restoring her salvaged ship! Even when she tries…
Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs - This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect much out of it; surely it'd just be like my boring ol'…
No Man’s Sky sees ‘its biggest month’ in years, possibly thanks to Starfield - What do spaceships, robots, and intergalactic adventures have in common? They're both the domain of the constantly expanding No Man's Sky and the fresh-on-the-scene Starfield. Yet despite possible concerns that the latter would rob interest from…
No Man’s Sky’s 4.4 Echoes release is live – meet your new space robot friends - Hello Games has been dropping little teases all week, so the fact that a new No Man's Sky update has officially arrived this morning isn't going to be a surprise - but if it is, it's…
The Stream Team: No Man’s Sky interstellar exploration for resources - As Massively OP's MJ tries to fix up the components of her salvaged ship in No Man's Sky, she's run into the problem of not having access to the resources she needs. To collect them, she…
Perfect Ten: What good MMO logos say about their games - Back when I was taking a smattering of business classes in college, one of my favorite electives dealt with marketing. It wasn't that I wanted to be a marketer, mind you, but I became fascinated with…
No Man’s Sky’s Singularity aka expedition 10 is live – here’s the new trailer - Is No Man's Sky allowed to have two big drops in the same seven-day span? Welp, it's happening anyway, as hot on the heels of its native Mac client release, Hello Games has launched the Singularity…
No Man’s Sky announces a native Mac edition for Apple fans with cross-save and cross-play - Hello Games has been teasing red and green apple emoji all week, and if you're a PC person, you might have been wondering whether No Man's Sky was about to get a big update to its…
The Stream Team: No plans in No Man’s Sky - Do you ever have days where you don't want to do anything in particular? Massively OP's MJ does, and today's that day. But that's OK! Sometimes she just likes to go with the flow instead of…
The Stream Team: Seeking out strange sights in No Man’s Sky - Today's Sandbox Saturday is featuring No Man's Sky once again, but this time MOP's Chris is taking the flight stick controls for the time being as he continues aiming himself in random directions in the hopes…
The Stream Team: Hunting for resources in No Man’s Sky - Tomorrow may be about hunting for eggs, but MassivelyOP's MJ doesn't really need eggs in No Man's Sky. Instead, she needs resources. Lots of them! She has a base to build up and many ship parts…
No Man’s Sky adds a new ship type, corrupted planets, and sentinel tech with the Interceptor update - Spicy new ships, planets and enemies suffering from a mysterious corruption, more sentinel foes; there is a lot to love (or fear) in the newly released Interceptor update for No Man's Sky, which is primarily focusing…
The Stream Team: Some casual and chilled out exploration in No Man’s Sky - MOP's Chris is once again feeling the urge to fly in deep space once again, only this time he'll be entering the sandbox of No Man's Sky with plans to find neat planets, neat ships, and…
The Stream Team: Base building in No Man’s Sky - After finally moving ahead in a saved game of No Man's Sky, Massively OP's MJ got to finally experience the beginnings of base building. And you know what that means! More base building! She wants to…
The Stream Team: No reason not to No Man’s Sky - Oftentimes, Massively OP's MJ pick an event or an update to jump back into a game. However, this time she has no particular reason for a foray into No Man's Sky other than just to fly…
No Man’s Sky adds a new spacecraft, enhanced VR features, and a new expedition with the Fractal update - No Man's Sky has done it again: Early this morning the sci-fi survival sandbox released another sizeable patch known as the Fractal update, with more features and enhancements available to players across a wide variety of…
Vague Patch Notes: Stop taking your released MMOs back to the drawing board - This is not a column about Kingshunt, but it is. It's not a column about Crowfall or Deathverse: Let it Die or even Crucible. But it's about all of those games and more besides. And it's…
End-of-Year Eleven: The best value MMOs going into 2023 - Every year when I do this post, I muse about what "value" actually means for MMOs because it's actually a tricky proposition and that fascinates me. And every year Bree asks me to please just write…
The Game Awards 2022: Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Wayfinder, Nightingale, Dune Awakening - We've updated with all the big news and trailers now - scroll down to the end for the announcements! Original post follows. Gamers who aren't particularly interested in an Oscars-esque awards show for the industry might…
Fan creates an elaborate mod for building bases in No Man’s Sky - Building a base in No Man's Sky is important. It's inspiring. It's a moment of self-identification. It is complicated, too, because there are a whole lot of base parts and it's not necessarily super-easy to do…
No Man’s Sky adds redux expeditions and a laundry list of bug fixes to the Steam experimental branch - What's coming next to No Man's Sky? A whole lot of bug fixing if the experimental branch build that went live yesterday is any indication. Players of the game on Steam can opt-in to this new…
The Stream Team: Relaxed Mode and more in No Man’s Sky - Last month, No Man's Sky had a big update that shook things up a bit. Included in the patch notes was one phrase that really caught Massively OP's MJ's eye: "Relaxed mode brings a new focus…
Vague Patch Notes: Finger-pointing in the MMO and multiplayer games industry - I know for a fact that I've already made the joke at this point about how Babylon's Fall just straight-up Babylon Fell, but the wordplay amuses me. That's not what this column is about, though. This…
No Man’s Sky brings new game modes, a trade rocket, and a Nintendo Switch launch in its Waypoint update - The ever-increasing number of feature additions to No Man's Sky just keep on coming. Waypoint, the survivalbox's latest free update, is now available to players with new modes, several quality-of-life adjustments, and now an all-new platform…
No Man’s Sky’s Sean Murray talks about relaxed mode, consolidating updates, and the progression of the game - It's been a long and strange journey for No Man's Sky, going from being insanely overhyped to being seen as a massive disappointment to actually turning things around and improving massively post-launch. This is definitely helped…
The Stream Team: The freighter life in No Man’s Sky - It's expedition time again in No Man's Sky, but things are taking a different turn this round. Instead of a starter planet, Massively OP's MJ gets to begin the game on a starter freighter! She is…
No Man’s Sky overhauls freighters and adds new multiplayer content in the Endurance update - For the most part, the utility of having a freighter in No Man's Sky was useful but arguably pretty hum-drum. That perception could change for players of the sci-fi survivalbox thanks to the Endurance update, which…
No Man’s Sky players have created a game-specific cryptocurrency to facilitate in-game trade - For those who are at the tippy-top of progression in No Man's Sky, you might find yourself drowning in in-game currencies without much to spend it on. Players of the game that are part of a…
No Man’s Sky will launch on the Nintendo Switch October 7 - Earlier this month, Hello Games announced that it is bringing No Man's Sky to PlayStation's VR2 headset - and apparently, it isn't done porting. Today, the company confirmed that it's partnering with no less than Bandai…
No Man’s Sky is coming to PlayStation’s VR2 headset - We've often wondered here at Massively OP how No Man's Sky actually makes money, considering that it's been pumping out massive free updates for years now. Perhaps the studio's strategy is simply to port the space-faring…
The Stream Team: Another No Man’s Sky expedition - Massively OP's MJ didn't make it very far in the last No Man's Sky expedition. (To be fair, she hasn't made it very far even in her first playthrough either!) But she is ready to start…
No Man’s Sky’s roguelike Leviathan expedition pulls you into a time loop - You've barely had six weeks to become a space pirate in No Man's Sky Outlaws, but we hope you're ready for something new, as Hello Games has pushed out another expedition this week called Leviathan. "Our…
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming flies into No Man’s Sky - In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch the gameplay right along with you; instead of you commenting on their…
The Stream Team: Joining the No Man’s Sky expedition - Although she started off on a very toxic planet, Massively OP's MJ was able to fix up her No Man's Sky ship and take her first first tiny flight (though she couldn't land!). Now, she's going…
Stick and Rudder: Using No Man’s Sky Outlaws as a way to fill the space sandbox void - Hello Games just keeps on proving itself over and over again. That's been the overall reaction whenever No Man's Sky makes an update from both myself and a lot of our commenters, but for some reason…
Become a pirate or smuggler in today’s No Man’s Sky Outlaws patch - It's a day that ends in Y, which means it's the perfect day for an out-of-the-blue No Man's Sky update! Look, Hello Games just does this sometimes. You gonna say no to a massive free patch?…
The Stream Team: Flying into No Man’s Sky for the first time - One game Massively OP's MJ hadn't really made it into was No Man's Sky. That changes today! She'll be skydiving right into the thick of things to start experiencing this universe for herself. Tune in live…
No Man’s Sky’s Sentinel update is live with mechs, new content, and freakin’ jetpacks - No Man's Sky's next update is called Sentinel, and in traditional Hello Games fashion, you're finding out about the the day it's already launched, which honestly isn't a bad thing except for the fact that February…
Massively Uplifting: MMOs show true love through helping kids, planting trees - Attitudes and thoughts about Valentine's Day vary widely, from crass commercialism to idyllic romanticism to complete indifference. But the fact remains that the spirit of the modern holiday is about love. And here at Massively Uplifting,…
No Man’s Sky prepares to land on the Switch this summer - As part of yesterday's Nintendo Direct, Hello Games announced that it's porting No Man's Sky to the Switch this summer. "For the last couple of years, a couple of members of our small team have been…
Steam’s Lunar New Year sale discounts New World, Elder Scrolls Online, and more - It may not be one of the biggest annual promotions that Valve runs, but Steam's Lunar New Year sale has several tempting discounts for the frugal gamer. If any of these appeal to you, you've got…
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs at the start of 2022 - One of the reasons that I have been a huge fan of MMORPGs for nearly two decades now is that they offer a terrific bang for your buck. I recall days of regularly spending $60 every…
MMO Cartographer: No Man’s Sky has worms - I have come back to Earth to report on the Emergence Community Expedition I have explored in No Man’s Sky, the once-maligned and currently beloved sci-fi space simulation game from Hello Games. This is the fourth…
No Man’s Sky’s Halloween expedition, Emergence, could not be more Dune-inspired - No Man's Sky is doing something a little different with today's release. "As the end of October approaches, we are thrilled to announce a new seasonal event for No Man’s Sky," Hello Games says. "Expedition Four:…
No Man’s Sky’s Frontiers sets you up as overseer of your very own space town - No Man's Sky is launching Frontiers today, so why are you sitting here reading when you could be scooting off to your Steam download? You may as well get that going because you're going to have…
No Man’s Sky hits five years with a ‘stronger player base,’ teases next update - Five years ago, No Man's Sky was the eye of a nerdstorm of unbelievable proportions. The highly anticipated title launched with many of its promised features missing and bugs abounding. Yet the team at Hello Games…
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that would actually benefit from a Classic server - Here's the thing about having a classic server for a lot of MMORPGs: It doesn't actually do much. In order for a classic server to really make a lot of sense, you need to have a…
Battle Bards Episode 194: No Man’s Sky - No Man’s Sky is a Cinderella story, a turnaround from a project that failed on its promises to exceeding them. But what about its soundtrack? In this episode, the Battle Bards examine this “experimental” score and…
No Man’s Sky launches the Prisms update to make the whole game look prettier - There are times when No Man's Sky can be a remarkably beautiful game. It gets even prettier with the new Prisms update, which adds in a whole lot of visual enhancements to make the game even more…
No Man’s Sky’s most recent Expedition includes a claimable Normandy SR1 from Mass Effect - In the middle of May, No Man's Sky launched the Beachhead Expedition, which players will recall is part of the new multiplayer-focused Expeditions mode that was added to the survival sandbox in April. This new Expedition…
Stick and Rudder: The frustrating and unsuccessful search for life in Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha phase 3 - I should have been more capable. If I were a better exploration pilot in Elite: Dangerous, I suspect I would have had a better time. Or would have had more fun. As it stands, this past…
Whatever happened to Maguss, Spiral Knights, and Empyrion? - It's time to find out Whatever Happened To a couple of MMOs that have somehow managed to slip off our radars and need to slide back on again. And as a bonus, some of these are…
No Man’s Sky adds a multiplayer-focused mode and improved multiplayer missions in the Expeditions update - Remember when No Man's Sky woefully underdelivered with regards to its multiplayer offerings? That seems like so long ago and the new Expeditions update is going to make that flub feel even further away as the…
Perfect Ten: MMOs of the ‘internet spaceships’ genre - It's at once the most important and most underserved genre in MMOs, aside from gigantic robots - it's the valuable genre of internet spaceships. They're games where you get to fly a spaceship. On the internet. Why would you…
No Man’s Sky adds an in-depth pet system with the Companions update - Space can be a lonely place in No Man's Sky, but it doesn't need to be if you have a little pet friend helping you out on your journey. That's what the sizable Companions update is…
Lunar New Year sales and events arrive to Steam, Champions Online, and gobs more - It's lovely seeing the Lunar New Year holiday continue to rise in prominence in the west - and especially in online video games. And especially when it elbows Valentine's Day out of the way. Here for…
End-of-Year Eleven: The best-value MMOs at the start of 2021 - What exactly is value, especially when it comes to MMOs? We all know what the word means, but the thing about "best value" is that it's highly variable. Is a buy-to-play game with an aggressive cash shop…
Vague Patch Notes: Yes, Virginia, that counts as an MMO - There is a particular comment we get on a semi-regular basis, and it is always wrong. It shows up on a wide variety of different games, and not consistently, but you have definitely seen it at…
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year - MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Expansion of the Year, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers last year. Every major update and expansion to an MMORPG was eligible…
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Not-So-Massively Game of the Year - MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for the Not-So-Massively Game of the Year, which was awarded to No Man's Sky last year. The games eligible for this category are online games that…
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Music of 2020 - MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Music of 2020, which last year wasn't directly awarded; instead, we gave out smaller music awards to multiple games and people, including World…
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Indie MMO of the Year - MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Indie MMO of the Year, which was awarded jointly to Villagers & Heroes and Project Gorgon last year. All indie MMOs, crowdfunded or not, are…
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2020 - It'd be spectacularly easy -- routine, even -- to look back at the year gone with derision, bitterness, and all sorts of acrid snark, but I'm not going to do that. It's almost a fresh start,…
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Improved MMO - MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to Black Desert last year. All live MMOs, regardless of release date, were eligible for this award, provided they…
Choose My Adventure: Surprise storytelling in No Man’s Sky’s base building progression - It was often remarked going in to this week’s Choose My Adventure task that base building in No Man’s Sky is something of a black hole. I just sort of assumed that was in relation to…
Choose My Adventure: Paradise planets, destroyed freighters, and hellbeasts in No Man’s Sky - It would be super easy for me to make this week's ride in No Man's Sky a picture book. Not just because the game has a photo mode, but because this week had me focusing on…
Choose My Adventure: A slow, steady, and informational search for Artemis in No Man’s Sky - I think I appreciate why last week’s voting had me follow the Artemis path, as this past week felt a bit like more tutorial steps, some new, most familiar, and all helpful if a bit droll.…
No Man’s Sky: Next Generation brings the game to next-gen consoles, graphical upgrades for all - Back in September, No Man's Sky studio Hello Games revealed Origins as merely "the beginning of something new." Now that the update is well behind us, you might be wondering what the "something new" is. Turns…
Massively Uplifting: Shattering mental health and disability stereotypes while increasing gaming inclusivity - Back to school? That quintessential September mantra may not be a given for everyone this year. However, what is still a given is the goodness of so many in the gaming world! No Man’s Sky and…
No Man’s Sky adds new planets, biomes, creatures, weather, locations, and items in today’s Origins update - Yes, that headline has a lot of things broken up by a lot of commas, but it should effectively illustrate the number of things added to No Man's Sky with the release of the Origins update,…
No Man’s Sky teases ‘the beginning of something new’: New update Origins, launching next week - No Man's Sky studio Hello Games has a bit of a habit of casually announcing major expansions out of the blue and crashing its own website. Today being what it is, that's exactly what happened this…
Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs I was very wrong about - Here's a not-actually-very-secret bit of honesty about the industry that I have been working in for about a decade now: I am not actually right all of the time. I say it's not actually secret because,…
Vague Patch Notes: No Man’s Sky is the real reboot success story - Whenever an MMO of any type has a launch that resembles the Nedelin catastrophe, people start talking about what the studio should do to get things back on track. Inevitably, this discussion circles back to Final…
No Man’s Sky touts an uptick in player numbers thanks to cross-play and Xbox Game Pass release - Man, it's almost like letting people play games with one another regardless of their chosen platform is good business. Hello Games' Sean Murray has shared a blog on Xbox Wire that announces that No Man's Sky…
No Man’s Sky Desolation is live, sending players to explore spooky derelict ships - No Man's Sky's Desolation update 2.6 is live today, and where do we even begin? The patch notes are short, but there's a ton packed in here: haunted derelict freighters full of loot and baddies and…
No Man’s Sky impements full PC and console crossplay starting tomorrow - When Hello Games announces new stuff for No Man's Sky, two things are usually true: They're huge, and they're soon. And today's announcement from the team fulfills both rules, as the studio has announced that the…
No Man’s Sky is getting a new Windows 10 version and arrives on Game Pass for Xbox One in June - There's a lot more to recommend No Man's Sky at this point than there was when it first launched, by all estimations. The game has evolved in leaps and bounds, but you can check it out for…
No Man’s Sky just patched in the Exo Mech update, confirming leaked video - You can have plenty of neat stuff in No Man's Sky. You can have your own custom base. You can have a frigate and a fleet. You can even have an organic, living ship, which I…
No Man’s Sky adds new plants for bases and bobbleheads for spaceships - Space can be a lonely place in No Man's Sky, even if there is a multiplayer hub now. For those spans where you're traveling the void without anyone around, perhaps you need a little friend along…
No Man’s Sky’s Living Ship update adds organic, growable, psychedelic starships - It's patch day for No Man's Sky, the game that launched as a not-MMO mess and has pumped out so much epic content in the ensuing years that it's winning awards and its playerbase put up…
The Internet Historian takes a look at the fall and rise of No Man’s Sky (and reads a racy Sean Murray fanfic) - Just how far has No Man's Sky come since its disastrous launch? It's one thing for someone to do all of the research on the topic, but it's another to have it all condensed in an…
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019 - The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the introductions. The up side? They're not a vote! I can just put…
Vague Patch Notes: My wrecked treasure in No Man’s Sky - She was dubbed the Tender Claw C27, and I found her upside-down and half-buried in the ground beside the final beacon of the tutorial quest. She was hardly the first ruined ship that I'd seen in…
No Man’s Sky introduces music creation with the ByteBeat device - Just because you're in a big lonely void of space doesn't mean you can't fill the emptiness with incredibly fresh beats. The latest patch for No Man's Sky introduces the new ByteBeat device, and it's a…
Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: Not-So-Massively Game of the Year - Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2019 awards continue today with our award for Not-So-Massively Game of the Year, which was awarded to Warframe last year. The games eligible for this category are online games that generally aren’t considered traditional…
No Man’s Sky launches significant quality-of-life improvements and new features in tomorrow’s Synthesis update - Where the Beyond update in No Man's Sky changed the game, the upcoming Synthesis update will refine it. This new large-scale update for the multiplayer space survival title, which is due tomorrow, will bring a host…
No Man’s Sky kicks off a new community research event and fixes numerous bugs in Update 2.12 - There's a fresh update for the (now) multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox No Man's Sky that provides a reason for more people to come together and complete objectives as well as steamrolls a huge laundry list of…
Choose My Adventure: Rediscovering the simple joy of flight in No Man’s Sky - Boy is it good to be back here. I'll be honest, not much of what I did while flying around in No Man's Sky was terribly different from what I'd normally do in the game before…
Remember the No Man’s Sky player-funded billboard? It’s up now! - Back in June, we covered a heart-warming story out of the No Man's Sky community, as player sought to raise money on a GoFundMe specifically to install a billboard thanking Hello Games for the game and…
No Man’s Sky promises updates to move Beyond bugs - With virtual reality and much larger multiplayer functionality than before, No Man's Sky Beyond should be the toast of the town right now. And it very well might be, provided that Hello Games can lock down…
No Man’s Sky heads into Beyond today - The latest update to No Man's Sky is at once the sort of thing that feels more isolating and less so. You can imagine, for example, how lonesome it would feel to load into the game…
No Man’s Sky discusses social spaces, cooking, animal taming, and other features of the Beyond update - It would appear, considering the timing of our source articles, that a media embargo lifted. No Man's Sky has been making the games media rounds ahead of its impressive, multiplayer-focused Beyond update, elaborating on a number…
No Man’s Sky Beyond gets a full launch trailer showing off its multiplayer environment - There's a lot of multiplayer support going on in No Man's Sky Beyond, the game's update arriving on August 14th. The latest trailer for the update just below is all about that multiplayer, and it looks…
No Man’s Sky: Beyond arrives on August 14 - If you've been eagerly awaiting the release of No Man's Sky: Beyond, your wait is almost over. The next big update for the game is going live on August 14th, and it's an update so large…
No Man’s Sky may be on the verge of its massively multiplayer update - Can you feel that? That is the eerie calm right before No Man's Sky explodes with its biggest update ever. Or it could be gas from eating too much Taco Bell last night. In any case,…
No Man’s Sky boss on why placating players with prattle rather than proof doesn’t work - Sometimes, as media, and surely as players, we wish a studio would just... stop talking. Just be quiet. Nothing you say is going to help, so just zip up your marketing team's mouth and buckle down…
No Man’s Sky players raised so much money for a gratitude billboard that they’re giving extra to charity - It doesn't seem like all that long ago that No Man's Sky was in the headlines for all the bad reasons: toxicity, hacking, meltdowns, consumer deception, and so forth. Just three years - and some major…
No Man’s Sky has a community devoted to transportation via black holes - In real life, as near as we can tell from the science, the only place you get transported to when you enter a black hole is your own molecules as you're squished down by incredible gravitational…
No Man’s Sky Beyond will include free virtual reality support this summer - Earlier this month, we learned that Hello Games still has huge ambitions for No Man's Sky; it's planning to turn the game into a proper MMO with proper MMO multiplayer, never mind that the company doesn't…
No Man’s Sky is planning its major Beyond update for the summer with online play - We've been covering No Man's Sky for a long while here, first because the game was supposed to have a multiplayer component and then afterwards largely out of momentum. But it turns out that's all come…
Steam lists Elder Scrolls Online, Black Desert, and Warframe among 2018’s best sellers - While not technically an awards show, Steam's "Best of 2018" page effectively serves as one as it looks at the best-selling and most-played titles over this past year. Many MMORPGs and multiplayer titles populated the best-selling…
No Man’s Sky multiplayer finally hits beta for GOG players - No Man's Sky took its place in the hierarchy of multiplayer titles - even MMOs, one might argue - this year with the addition of its 1.5 update, dubbed NEXT, which brought the "full multiplayer experience"…
No Man’s Sky’s Visions update introduces strange and deadly planets and biomes, new activities, and more - It's been less than a month since the release of No Man's Sky's last major content update, The Abyss, but the folks at Hello Games clearly haven't been resting on their laurels, as today they announced…
The Abyss sends No Man’s Sky players to the bottom of the ocean - The next major update for No Man's Sky has arrived, and it's deep. It's really deep. It's deep because its whole thing is about sending players into the water, which can definitely be appropriately scary (as…
MassivelyOP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2018 - Whether or not you consider yourself too old to put on that Hulk or Sparkle Twilight costume and prance ("HULK PRANCE") around the neighborhood for free candy, MMOs make it easy for us to regress into…
No Man’s Sky announces new update, The Abyss, releasing next week - It's only been a couple of months since the release of No Man's Sky's last named update, NEXT, but it looks like the folks at Hello Games have been hard at work since then, as they've…
No Man’s Sky kicks off its first official community event - No Man's Sky didn't just expand into persistent multiplayer with its NEXT update but also laid down the foundation for regular community events to keep players entertained. The first of these events has gone live this weekend,…
No Man’s Sky works on fixing save game issues, adds archaeology missions - While it's not officially here yet, No Man's Sky's newest patch is making its way through the experimental test server and promises to shore up some key issues with the recent NEXT multiplayer update. It looks…
SuperData July 2018: Fortnite is peaking, League of Legends is bested, Overwatch is slipping - "Fortnite’s peak may be behind us," SuperData asserts in its report on July 2018's global video game revenues. "Fortnite revenue is up only 2% from June. Growth was modest despite Epic releasing Season 5 of the…
GOG offers No Man’s Sky refunds after players discover that multiplayer won’t come for months yet - As you may have seen, No Man's Sky is back in the spotlight thanks to this week's massive NEXT multiplayer update. However, not all players are rejoicing. Specifically, those who own the game through GOG.com discovered…
No Man’s Sky’s concurrency is waaaaaaay up since the launch of NEXT - Can't take the sky from No Man's Sky. It's built right into the name, see. You can take the game from Green Man Gaming for a cool $25, however, and that's exactly what I did last…
‘Full multiplayer experience’ flies into No Man’s Sky today - There's no reason to explore the galaxy solo, thanks to today's massive No Man's Sky NEXT update. The "full multiplayer experience" has finally arrived in the game, two years after the game's rocky 2016 launch, and…
Sean Murray explains No Man’s Sky’s multiplayer, promises weekly content season and better communication - If you're itching to play No Man's Sky after seeing its NEXT teaser trailer last week, then you should probably point your eyeballs back at Twitter, as Hello Games' Sean Murray spent some time this weekend…
No Man’s Sky received death threats over butterflies - On the verge of expanding into a full multiplayer experience, No Man's Sky has rocketed back into the spotlight with July 24th's NEXT update. In many ways, it's absolutely amazing that the space game has reached…
No Man’s Sky’s Next update drops next week with absurd amounts of space and land content - Don't call it an MMO yet, but Even More Multiplayer is making its way to No Man's Sky with its "Next" update. Hello Games today dropped a new trailer showing off how the "limitless procedural universe"…
Today in why we can’t have nice things: How a No Man’s Sky griefer exploits design flaws to screw with communities - A No Man's Sky griefer purporting to roleplay an evil emperor, monologuing and all, decided to up his griefer game by taking it out of game and erasing a 400+ member strong Amino community cafe. As Kotaku reports, the…
No Man’s Sky is really truly getting ‘full’ multiplayer in July - MMO players have nice long memories, so I'm sure you'll recall that way back in 2016, No Man's Sky ticked everyone off and even was investigated for deceptive marketing practices, including suggestions of multiplayer that didn’t materialize at launch,…
Humble Bundle and GOG.com cut deals for online games - Looking for a few good deals on MMOs and multiplayer games? Both Humble Bundle and GOG.com are running some sales right now that might cut you a deal on a title you've been eyeing. Humble Bundle's…
No Man’s Sky announces free ‘NEXT’ update for all platforms – yes, Xbox One too - Ahead of an apparent impending leak, Hello Games' Sean Murray dropped a "small announcement" about No Man's Sky this morning. "Coming in Summer 2018 is No Man's Sky NEXT, a free update for PS4, PC, Xbox…
A player modder is building the No Man’s Sky you always wanted - Way back in 2016, No Man's Sky was all anyone talked about thanks to misleading hype positioning the game in the stratosphere. In fact, the multiplayer features that were teased (and apparently planned in spite of claims…
EVE Vegas 2017: CCP announces new EVE-based mobile MMO Project Aurora - [AL:EVE]At the opening presentations of EVE Vegas 2017, CCP Games announced that it has teamed up with mobile developer PlayRaven to produce a totally new free-to-play mobile MMO set in the EVE Online universe. Currently codenamed Project…
Investors pour $3.7M into MMO sandbox Dual Universe - Dual Universe just snagged a positively massive cash injection. According to a press release posted today, private investors have poured $3.7 million in funding into the sci-fi sandbox MMORPG. That's in addition to the more than…
No Man’s Sky is finally getting multiplayer by way of ‘joint exploration’ - Remember all the fuss a year ago when No Man's Sky finally launched and the multiplayer features Hello Games' Sean Murray had teased (and the "online play" feature apparently hidden under a sticker on the gamebox) didn't actually…
No Man’s Sky dispatches Atlas Rises this week – for free - No Man's Sky is due for its third freebie patch, and it's coming this very week. "We're calling it Atlas Rises," Hello Games says in an email that hit owners' inboxes yesterday. "It focuses on improving the…
Elite Dangerous’ David Braben on communities, MMOs, F2P, and the space game genre - Elite Dangerous' David Braben has a big spread in Rolling Stone's Glixel blog this week, and it's a fun read as he zips around discussing Trappist-1, Roman slavery, Star Wars, ant society, Shakespeare, Ursula Le Guin,…
The MMOs of the Steam Summer 2017 Sale - After some ups and downs this afternoon -- everybody loves the "try again later" message, right? -- Valve's summer Steam sale is finally underway and stable. Here's what we're looking at in our corner of the…
E3 2017: Survival sandbox Ashen boasts ‘passive multiplayer’ - One of the indie highlights of this weekend's pre-E3 show was Ashen, a beautiful survival sandbox with a former Guild Wars 2 artist on board at studio Aurora44. It's not quite an MMORPG, but it's promising what…
Multiplayer sandbox Astroneer publishes development roadmap, teases themed spacesuits - If No Man's Sky didn't exactly scratch your itch for multiplayer interplanetary exploration, mining, and crafting, then Astroneer is suiting up right now to take a stab at this format with all sorts of lovely soft…
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond - As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on multiplayer titles. Similarly, The Survivalist will mostly (but not always!) concern itself…
No Man’s Sky patches in a fix to allow faster movement on every planet - Last week, No Man's Sky patched in the option to build rovers for quickly traversing the landscape. That's just a good thing, right? After all, it means that you could hop from place to place without…
No Man’s Sky reaches 1M players in its Foundation era - Love it or hate it, No Man's Sky was the buzz around the video game water cooler last year. And while the space exploration title received major backlash following its shaky launch, creater Sean Murray said…
Cops-and-robbers sandbox Identity on griefing, prison, customization, and more - Identity is an open-world, cops-and-robbers sandbox, and it isn't asking you for money. That's because it was already Kickstarted to the tune of almost $150,000 back in 2015. It's a real-world MMORPG with a focus on…
Dota 2, The Division list among the best-selling Steam games of 2016 - [AL:FFXIV]One of my favorite things to do at the end of each calendar year is to read all of the "best of" lists that get posted all over the place. Steam is contributing to my delight,…
MMO Year in Review: We are Legion (August 2016) - This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2017. World of Warcraft ran away with the month of…
Massively OP’s 2016 Blooper Awards: Best Worst Headline - Massively OP's humorous end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Best Worst Headline on Massively OP in 2016. And the winner is... No Man's Sky's procedurally generated rods, tools, and junk I know this post about…
Perfect Ten: Biggest MMORPG surprises of 2016 - Back at the beginning of December, I posted a list of what I considered to be the biggest MMORPG stories of 2016. However, there were notable exceptions in that list of news that fans thought should…
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Disappointment of 2016 - Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for the Biggest MMORPG Disappointment of 2016, which was awarded in 2015 to World of Warcraft's setbacks: Blizzard's massive sub slide and content drought. Hey, at least it won't go…
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond - Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond, which was awarded to Blade & Soul last year -- and I'm happy to say that game defied the odds…
MMO Mechanics: 2016’s MMORPG mechanics in review - The holiday season is finally upon us: My decorations are resurrected from their dark corner of my storage closets once more, Jack Frost is beginning to nip at my toes on these frosty evenings, and even…
UK watchdog group dismisses gamer complaints over No Man’s Sky advertising - Back in September, we reported that UK watchdog group Advertising Standards Authority was investigating No Man's Sky following "several" -- we now know it was 23 -- complaints over the game's advertising practices. Now that group…
Survival mode and base building comes to No Man’s Sky - Following a heap of post-launch controversy and several months of silence, No Man's Sky is back with a content update that adds a new survival mode and base building as key features. Version 1.1 also introduces…
Apparently hacked No Man’s Sky account tweets that the game was a ‘mistake’ - [We're updating as we go here!] A Hello Games representative -- or at least someone with access to the right email account -- told Polygon this morning that it was indeed Sean Murray who tweeted out, "No…
Superdata’s September report shows Destiny, WoW, GW2, SWTOR, and TERA doing well - Superdata's September games market report is up, and the console revenue rankings have a new old king: Destiny. Yes, Destiny has returned to the top of the pile. "Destiny highlights the importance of additional content releases…
Make My MMO: Dual Universe fully funds (October 15, 2016) - This week in MMO crowdfunding news, congrats are due to Dual Universe, the sci-fi sandbox whose Kickstarter successfully funded on Tuesday with over 8100 backers pledging over $630,000 toward a $556,421 goal. Meanwhile, Star Citizen's CitizenCon came…
Everything is probably fine behind the scenes of No Man’s Sky - No one could blame you for being just a little bit... apprehensive about the radio silence around No Man's Sky. After a rather controversial launch wherein the whole multiplayer aspect of the game either didn't work…
No Man’s Sky subreddit temporarily melts down over moderator frustration - The No Man's Sky subreddit was nuked briefly overnight thanks to the frustration of the mods, who say they debated for several hours last night over just what to do with the angry cesspool of negativity that has become…
Perfect Ten: Questions to ask before backing an MMO Kickstarter - I am not a big fan of Kickstarter in general, but I like to think that I'm not a big fan for actual reasons rather than spurious ones. Every time I see someone referring to Star…
A whole bunch of people filed FTC complaints over Pokemon Go - How many times are we going to have to use the word "watchdog" this week? I believe we're on the third now, and this time, we're not talking about law enforcement creepers or No Man's Sky's…
UK watchdog group investigates No Man’s Sky advertising - Eurogamer reports today that UK watchdog group Advertising Standards Authority is investigating No Man's Sky following "several" complaints over the game's advertising practices. Readers will recall that following the launch of Hello Games' much-hyped sandbox, gamers…
Ascent: The Space Game patches in terraforming - Move over, No Man's Sky and Star Citizen: The ever-plucky one-man dev team at Fluffy Kitten Studios beat you to it. Ascent: The Space Game has a massive patch out this week adding terraforming mechanics to…
EVE Evolved: No Man’s Sky vs EVE Online - [AL:EVE]Like many EVE Online fans, I've spent the past week fully immersed in the procedurally generated universe of No Man's Sky and wondering what its mechanics and critical reception could mean for EVE Online. The two games are practically polar…
No Man’s Sky’s procedurally generated rods, tools, and junk - One of the things that always drives me nuts (pun intended) about user-created content in video games is the automatic assumption people have that such content always, always, always means phallic symbols. For exhibit A, I…
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…
MMO Mechanics: No Man’s Sky is mechanically genius (an ode to procedural generation) - No Man's Sky has been on my hotly anticipated list for so long, and you might remember that it has had particular mention in a previous MMO Mechanics entry in which I discussed several in-development titles that promised…
No Man’s Sky addresses crashes and bugs ahead of today’s PC launch - Hello Games says it's "working quickly" on issues with No Man's Sky, including crash problems and pre-order bonus mishaps, like that that whole thing where using your pre-order bonus ship left you stranded on a planet…
No Man’s Sky original LE box touts ‘online play’ - Yesterday, we wrote about the multiplayer confusion that's entangled the launch of the sandboxy No Man's Sky (commenter JonBuck called it "Schrödinger's Multiplayer"). Adding more brambles is a new piece from Rock Paper Shotgun that suggests the…
No Man’s Sky, the non-multiplayer multiplayer game - If you were confused about just how multiplayer No Man's Sky was going to be, welcome to the club. Inconsistent (or consistently contradictory) statements from Hello Games on the topic in the long lead up to…
No Man’s Sky submits a sizable day one patch for your approval - Happy launch week for No Man's Sky, especially to those who have been waiting years for the exploration-happy title (and PC players will have to wait a little longer than console fans). Even if you're spoiled…
No Man’s Sky delays PC launch to Friday - Hope you weren't taking off Tuesday: No Man's Sky's PC release has been delayed yet again, this time to August 12th: https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/761694858562207744 Hello Games' Sean Murray apologized "for the confusion" and said last night he was…
No Man’s Sky subreddit loses its space marbles over spoiler streams - The No Man's Sky subreddit went into wacky meltdown mode over the weekend as players with leaked copies -- one purchased for $1300 on Ebay, some that may or may not be "easymode" press copies --…
No Man’s Sky drops ‘Survive’ trailer - It's been an up-and-down week for No Man's Sky, developers for which this week announced it wouldn't require a PlayStation Plus sub and admitted it was being delayed -- again -- but just a few days.…
No Man’s Sky possibly delayed (again) on the PC - The last time No Man's Sky announced a launch delay, it caused no end of a ruckus on the internet from disgruntled fans. Now the playerbase's patience will be tested once again, as the August release…
No Man’s Sky will operate free of PlayStation Plus - One of the downsides to getting into online games on consoles is that you have to worry about whether or not the titles will require a premium membership to access. Happily, No Man's Sky console fans won't…
No Man’s Sky offers new trailer on trade - What's better than re-watching old trailers while waiting for No Man’s Sky to launch on the PS4 in a little over two weeks? How about watching a new trailer! Hello Games has released a new Guides…
No Man’s Sky goes gold - The bad news for No Man's Sky fans is that the game took longer than expected to be finished and launch was delayed slightly. Some people do not take this minor inconvenience well. But the wait…
No Man’s Sky developers thank players for their understanding of its delay - Those eagerly awaiting No Man's Sky must continue to eagerly await a bit longer, as the game's current delayed release is August 9th in the US and August 10th in Europe. Managing director Sean Murray penned…
No Man’s Sky confirms August delay rumors, fields death threats - Remember those rumors about No Man's Sky's delay? Yeah, they're true. Hello Games' Sean Murray has posted about the delay on the PlayStation blog, admitting that the even though "development is genuinely going well," the ambitious…
Rumor: No Man’s Sky delayed at least until late summer - Kotaku is reporting that multiple unnamed sources have confirmed that No Man's Sky has been delayed "until at least July or August." The staggeringly ambitious, gloriously beautiful, heavily hyped sci-fi explorater's paradise was due out on…
Hear the first music track from No Man’s Sky - Wonder what you'll be hearing while you're exploring the near-infinite universe of No Man's Sky? Work has completed on the soundtrack for the upcoming game, and you can go ahead and sample the first music track…
No Man’s Sky launches June 21, $59.99 base, $149.99 limited-edition CE - Hello Games has announced that procedurally generated sci-fi sandbox No Man's Sky is officially launching on June 21st on PS4 and on PC through Steam and GOG This announcement arrives after a mistakenly published and hastily retracted PlayStation blog…
No Man’s Sky pricing leak rumour sends fans into a tizzy - There's been a huge degree of fascination with indie game No Man's Sky since it stole the show at E3 2014. The game promises seamless exploration of a massive procedurally generated galaxy filled with unique planets, weird and wonderful plants and…
Make My MMO: Grim Dawn and Descent Underground (February 27, 2016) - Grim Dawn is the toast of our Make My MMO crowdfunding column this weekend as the crowdfunded multiplayer action RPG has made it through the early access phase to official launch. Meanwhile, The Repopulation began taking tester…
No Man’s Sky will have a physically accurate universe … almost - If you've been following upcoming space exploration game No Man's Sky, you've probably heard a few things about its incredibly large procedurally generated universe. Because the entire universe is generated randomly but uses the same random number…
No Man’s Sky has neither missions nor collectibles - No Man's Sky is a big game, what with 18 quintillion planets that would take 600 billion hours for players to explore, according to Kill Screen. The website recently talked with the game's managing director Sean…
No Man’s Sky is coming out in June 2016 - The universe will be yours to explore next summer, as No Man's Sky has been dated for June 2016. While the release date was announced during Paris Games Week for the PlayStation 4 version, Hello Games…
Not So Massively: Cloud Imperium threatens a lawsuit (October 5, 2015) - Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So…
No Man’s Sky shows off an infinity of worlds - If you sit down and play No Man's Sky, you'll never see exactly what you see in this trailer. That's the big draw of the game, that everything is randomly and procedurally generated so that there's…
MMO Mechanics: Four inspiring indie developments worth watching - The MMO genre has immense sticking power in terms of tenure, staying relevant to players for decades despite such fluid and rapid development in the larger gaming industry and particularly in relation to online gaming. With…
Massively Opinionated: What’s the next big MMO buzzword? - In this episode, Larry, Brendan, and Tina debate next-gen MMOs, unfinished games, and MMO buzzwords.
