No Man’s Sky

The AU Review’s Game of the Year 2018

Choosing your favourite game of the year is hard. We’ve done it every year since we founded The AU Review’s games section in 2014, and it never gets any easier. In 2018, we played so many incredible games that it became impossible to list and number every last one of them, so we opted not…

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The ten greatest video game soundtracks we’d love to hear live

This year at Gamescom, the Video Games Live orchestra performed selected arrangements from the Overwatch original soundtrack. The performance was amazing, its heroic themes accompanied by some of the game’s iconic cinematic shorts. A video game soundtrack played live, particularly by a full orchestra, is something that’s only come into vogue in the last decade…

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Games Review: No Man’s Sky NEXT (Xbox One, 2018) is kind of all I want to play right now

No-one is more surprised by that headline than me. When we reviewed No Man’s Sky at launch back in 2016, our reviewer took an especially dim view of the game’s failure to implement a litany of the mechanics it had promised. They were not the only person who felt this way. We all remember what…

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No Man’s Sky drops huge new Founder’s Update

Still got a copy of No Man’s Sky kicking around? Throw it into your PS4 this morning and you’ll discover the free V1.1 patch, also called the Foundation Update,  is now live. This is a huge patch and brings a significant amount of changes, fixes and new modes to what has been the year’s most divisive space…

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5 Features We Would Have Liked to Have Seen in No Man’s Sky

You don’t have to have your finger on the pulse of the gaming industry to know what a mixed bag No Mans Sky was, and still is for that matter. A combination of head developer Sean Murray’s uneven communication and the game simply not being able to live up to its amazing premise, No Man’s Sky went from…

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Video Games Review: No Man’s Sky (PS4, 2016)

Usually, the kind of backlash that Hello Games’ ambitious space explorer has received would be reserved for something from Ubisoft (Watch Dogs, The Division), but it would appear that we’re in a golden age of broken promises, embellishments and flat out lies, with No Man’s Sky leading the charge.

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No Man’s Sky finally gets a release date

Start saying goodbye to your friends and family now. The long-awaited space adventure title No Man’s Sky will finally be delivered into your anxious paws on June 22, 2016.

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Paris Games Week 2015: No Man’s Sky finally gets release window, coming June 2016

Hello Games have spent a long time playing coy regarding the release date of their space exploration title No Man’s Sky. During Sony’s Paris Games Week presentation, they finally gave in, announcing a release window and dropping a new trailer.

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Watch Stephen Colbert be blown away by No Man’s Sky

It’s been a good week for gaming on late night TV with Stephen Colbert following up his Thursday night Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg interview with a live demo of No Man’s Sky from Hello Games’ Sean Murray.

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