Sean Murray, founder of "No Man's Sky", recently released a series of emojis, which has sparked enthusiastic speculation among the player group.Many fans believe this may herald a new extension update.Through the continuous free updates, this game has transformed from a mediocre work that was scarce when it was released in 2016 to one of the most complex and highly respected survival games on the market. Many players are looking forward to a new round of major content updates soon.
As of now, "Unman's Sky" has launched 31 designated extensions, and no additional fees are charged to players for all updates.In the first half of 2025 alone, the game added a large amount of content including deep-sea exploration, fossil trading, town squadron defense systems, residents' dilemma events, and billions of new stars and planets.
Throughout August, Murray's social account was relatively quiet. He only released the ninth anniversary of the game on August 9, promoted the Youtooz brand plush toys, and shared several game screenshots and a fan painting.But on August 24, a textless update was released, which contained only one wave emoji, and the subsequent update released the next day added three wave emojis.Although on the surface this may be just the developer and publisher Hello Games that are delivering greetings through a "wave" move, Murray has used similar strategies to build momentum for major releases in the past.Many fans speculate that the general manager may be hinting at new content coming.
Mainstream speculation is that Murray is laying the groundwork for the announcement of the next update of the game.During July, No Man's Sky launched three small updates, and no updates have been released in August.The latest major content update, Beacon, was released in early June, introducing a settlement system for the mechanical intelligent race "autophagosome" in the game, and adding new base construction functions including upgrading buildings and managing multiple towns simultaneously.It is worth noting that before the release of the Beacon update, Murray also released a bacon emoji for hints.
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Some players are also looking forward to seeing new news about the large open world game "Light of Fire".The game was first released at the 2023 TGA Awards Ceremony a year and a half ago and is positioned as an exploration game focusing on a single giant world - a stark contrast to the 1.84×10^19 planets generated by "Unman's Sky" using a program.Although development has been going on for at least six years, there has been almost no new news about "Light Without Fire" since the first trailer.Considering that "Unman's Sky" is officially released in just four years of development, players may soon be able to see more information about Hello Games' next blockbuster work.
