You Don't Have Enough Time to See All Of No Man's Sky

Hold on to your hats people, because hello games have shifted the bar a bit when it comes to exploration. They were using a 32bit number to generate the planets, stars, moons and the like in No Man's Sky, which meant if you spent a mere one second at each planet, it would take you 4 or 5 thousand years to visit them all.

Now they have switched to a 64 bit number, which means it will take 5 billion years to do so. Yes, that's billion, with a b. To put this in perspective, 4.567 billion years is the estimated age of the sun. 4.54 billion years is the estimated age of Planet Earth (plus or minus 1%).

The sun is expected to die in a shade over 3 billion years, we're talking serious time here. Charles Scott Robinson thought 30,000 years was a long prison term, but to paraphrase Douglas Adams, that's peanuts compared to space!

Hello Games are as yet not giving us a release date for No Man's Sky , but we are champing at the bit already. They have been teasing people at Gamescom that soon they will have "something big" to show soon, and from the look of it, when they say "big", they mean "big".