UPDATE:

With a week still to go before the game's initial release, Hello Games has finished No Man's Sky



5am at Hello Games. Wrapping up a month of work on our first update. Lots of new features, balancing and content pic.twitter.com/yF82uarHxp — Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 3, 2016

In a a tweet, founder Sean Murray explains that the update mentioned last month will contain "lots of new features, balancing and content". It's not clear when the update is due to arrive.No Man's Sky is due for release on PS4 on August 9 in North America and August 10 in Europe, while PC users will get it from August 12.



Well, waiting for a build to upload really. Actually we're already busy on Update 1 — Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) July 10, 2016

Hello Games founder Sean Murray has said that his team is already working on a first update for No Man's Sky, a month before the game's release.On Twitter, Murray explained that the game has passed certification (the checks required for a game to be released on its chosen platforms) in the EU, US and Asia, leaving the team free to work on the next step:It's not clear whether "Update 1" is a day one patch for the game, or a content update due for release post-launch. No Man's Sky went gold last week ahead of its August 9 release date in the US (that's August 10 in Europe and August 12 in the UK).Murray also addressed how big the game will be . The virtual universe featuring 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets (not to mention everything on them, and the unfathomably vast realm of stuff and non-stuff between them) takes up... 6GB. Plus, "most of that is audio ", explains Murray.So, what could we see in future updates for the game? Well, call us dreamers but Murray has said that VR would be "a really good fit" for No Man's Sky, so...

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