No Man’s Sky turns five this week as the storied game first launched in 2016. To mark the occasion developer Hello Games has released a trailer (embedded below) which ends by revealing the name of the next expansion called “Frontiers”.
Frontiers will be the 17th free content updated added to the game in these last five years.
The trailer, however, goes by rather fast and doesn’t reveal too much. Thankfully Sean Murray, the founder of Hello Games and a central figure in the now infamous advertising of the game before its launch, has penned posts both for the PlayStation Blog as well Xbox Wire.
“Five years ago today we launched No Man’s Sky. For the first time we watched players all over the world begin to explore the universe we had created. It was a nerve-wracking moment and the culmination of five years of very hard work for our tiny team (the average team size was just 6, and at launch was just 15),” Murray writes on the PlayStation Blog.
A recap is then provided for some of those 16 updates and the work that went into each. Those wanting to read more about how the game has changed over time can scroll back through the release log on the official No Man’s Sky website.
While no concrete information is provided about Frontiers, Murray calls it “a missing piece of the sci-fi fantasy that we’ve always wanted to add” and “very fitting for our fifth anniversary”.
Over on Xbox Wire and the post there is much the same but of course mentioning Xbox consoles instead of PlayStation ones. Here Murray also reminds people that No Man’s Sky is available through Xbox Game Pass.
Posts across the PlayStation Blog, Xbox Wire and other parts of the internet all end with the phrase “our journey continues” once again reinforcing that Hello Games will continue working on this game.
Such a small developer supporting a game for so long isn’t the norm, especially after the terrible launch of the vanilla game, so it will be interesting to see how many more years No Man’s Sky has. Maybe the plan was always to continually work on this title, similar to a live service game.
No Man’s Sky, and all 16 of its free content updates released so far, is available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation VR, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
