A year on from the critically-acclaimed NEXT update — which transformed No Man's Sky from a game that courted incredible controversy on release — BEYOND goes even bigger.
The update includes No Man's Sky Online — "an all-new social and multiplayer experience that empowers players everywhere in the universe to meet, play and explore together." This mode will be free to all players without requiring a subscription, and promises to not feature microtransactions.
No information is known about the second component of BEYOND, with Hello Games remaining famously silent on the matter.
The third is one of the most anticipated features among fans — VR compatibility on PC and for PSVR. All aspects of the game will be fully playable in virtual reality, rather than just being a tech demo or short feature, and arguably makes No Man's Sky the platform's biggest IP yet.
No Man's Sky is an expansive space exploration and survival sim inspired by science-fiction art and literature of the 1960s and 1970s. It uses procedural generation to place players in the centre of an almost-endless universe — there are over 18 quintillion planets to discover.
Yes, you read that correctly — 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets.
We'll leave you with this gameplay trailer from the early days of NMS, narrated by the legendary Rutger Hauer.
No Man's Sky: BEYOND releases August 14 for PC, PS4, PSVR and Xbox One.
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