No Man's Sky: Origins "hints at new beginnings" for the game

Last week, No Man's Sky got a massive new update "doubling the variety in the game". Called No Man's Sky: Origins, the hefty new content drop was designed to "re-capture that feeling of those early travellers who never really knew what was over the next hill, on the next planet, in the next star system", developer Hello Games explained - but it seems the name 'Origins' also has another angle alongside this: it "hints at new beginnings".

In an interview by email, Hello Games founder Sean Murray tells us, "The main impetus behind the Origins update is to reinvigorate that sense of exploration and curiosity which has always been central to the No Man's Sky conceit. Over the past couple of years, it has always been there in the background as we've added VR, improved multiplayer, introduced and finessed base-building etc, but with Origins we wanted to bring discovery back to be front and centre".

So, as Murray explains, "The title 'Origins' was perfect for this update given that it harks back to where we started and reminded us why No Man's Sky was so ground-breaking in the first place, but also hints at new beginnings".

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