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No Man’s Sky: Beyond Confirmed for August Launch

Big AAA videogames like Fallout 4 VR and Borderlands 2 VR have helped build interest in virtual reality (VR) gaming with a wide audience who may not have been bothered before. This summer Hello Games will contribute to that with No Man’s Sky: Beyond, a huge update adding VR compatibility. Today, the studio has revealed the expansion will be coming in a couple of weeks.

No Man's Sky: Beyond

The 7th update for No Man’s Sky, the release will be three expansions rolled into one. The main one VRFocus is interested in is the VR support, with PlayStation VR gaining support as well as headsets like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Valve Index thanks to SteamVR.

“Reach into your backpack to grab your multitool, touch it to switch to terrain manipulation and carve out intricate shapes with unprecedented control,” says Sean Murray, Hello Games Founder on PlayStation.Blog. “Play in multiplayer and casually wave to your non-VR friends or fist bump your PS VR peers.”

Also included will be an expanded online experience with new social and multiplayer functionality, encouraging players to meet up and communicate in this infinite digital universe. “We don’t consider No Man’s Sky to be an MMO – it won’t require a subscription, won’t contain microtransactions, and will be free for all existing players,” Murray notes.

No Man's Sky: Beyond

Launched back in 2016, Hello Games made some big promises regarding No Man’s Sky which didn’t all quite pan out. Over the last three years, the team has released some big expansions including the NEXT update, which has improved the experience considerably. The videogame features a living breathing universe where you can travel to any twinkling star you can see, find a nearby planet, land on it and then go exploring; finding new lifeforms along the way (all with no loading screens). You can upgrade your ship to jump further, improve your weapons and suit to fight hostile creatures and fierce pirates, or anything else you can think of.  And soon you’ll be able to do all of this in VR.

The No Man’s Sky: Beyond update is scheduled for release on 14th August 2019. For any further updates ahead of launch, keep reading VRFocus.

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No Man’s Sky VR Release Date Confirmed For This August

No Man’s Sky: Beyond, which includes complete VR support for the entire game, finally has a confirmed release date for this August 14th.

That’s less than two weeks away in case you didn’t realize. In less than two weeks you can plop on a VR headset and take off for space to explore the stars, visit far-away galaxies, or explore entire planets from top to bottom. And we can tell that a lot of you are excited as well.

Sky’s The Limit

Earlier this year Hello Games announced No Man’s Sky: Beyond, a new overhaul of the game that would include revamped online features and VR support. A third and final component of the release is still under wraps for now. We should know a bit more about No Man’s Sky VR before the date, hopefully, to further whet appetites.

The No Man’s Sky VR release date news is exciting, but not too surprising. Just yesterday we learned about the game getting rated by the ESRB and Sean Murray made comments about the massive scope of the game not far before that.

Since No Man’s Sky is a procedurally generated game world that means that it’s functionally limitless. The game holds billions of planets in its digital universe, all ready to be mapped and explored. Players can even terraform planets and build structures. Or you can focus on the game’s core objective, gradually making your way to the center of the universe. Either that or just, y’know, do whatever you want. Hello Games has even gone the extra mile and implemented hand controllers like PlayStation Move. The Beyond update will be free to all existing owners.

No Man’s Sky VR is coming to PSVR and PC VR headsets on August 14th. Let us know if you plan on playing down in the comments below! Once it launches, we plan on founding Planet Upload somewhere with a nice green sky.

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No Man’s Sky: Beyond Gets ESRB Rating, Summer Release Imminent

No Man’s Sky: Beyond, which includes the No Man’s Sky VR update, is now rated by the ESRB which implies an imminent release date.

Not long ago No Man’s Sky: Beyond was rated by the Australian ratings board and now the ESRB, spotted by Wario64 on Twitter, the North American game ratings board, has weighed in as well. Unsurprisingly, just like every other version of the game, it’s rated T for Teen.

We still don’t have a specific release date for No Man’s Sky VR announced, but they did say it would be coming this summer. The original game released three years ago on August 9th, but next week seems a bit too soon without an announcement yet. Hopefully it won’t be much longer, though — we loved the brief time we spent hands-on with it on PSVR and HTC Vive Pro.

Sean Murray from Hello Games has spoken very highly of his game’s VR support, stating that he and the rest of the team have wanted to include VR from the very beginning. Unlike Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Borderland 2 VR, and other non-VR games that get ported, No Man’s Sky VR is actually just an update to the entire base game. No new purchases required if you own it already and the multiplayer functionality works between both VR and non-VR players. That will immediately make it one of the most widely owned VR games once the Beyond update (all of which is also free) finally launches.

No Man’s Sky VR will support PSVR and PC VR headsets. In our discussion topic last week we asked what you intend to do first when finally playing No Man’s Sky VR with its release quickly approaching. Let us know here as well down in the comments below!

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Sean Murray: No Man’s Sky VR Is ‘The Perfect Kind Of Sci-Fi Dream’

No Man’s Sky VR is fast approaching this summer on PSVR and PC VR headsets. In anticipation of the big Beyond update, Sean Murray, co-founder of Hello Games, spoke to the Develop: Brighton team about the release.

We still don’t have an exact release date yet for the Beyond update, which revamps the game’s online functionality and adds full VR support, but it has been rated in Australia which hints that a date announcement could be imminent.

“The thing we’re working on at the moment is bringing the game to virtual reality, it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” says Murray. “It’s very uniquely sci-fi, I think — the idea of you’ve already got this game that’s procedurally generated with a whole universe you can explore and then the idea that you’re going to put on a headset and walk around in virtual reality…if eight year old me could see that I was working on that I think that he’d just have a heart attack. It’s nuts. It’s the perfect kind of sci-fi dream.”

I got a chance to try out the upcoming VR support for No Man’s Sky on both an HTC Vive Pro and PSVR headset and am impatiently waiting for it to release. The sheer magnitude of the game world, multitude of possibilities, and scale of it all is breathtaking. Describing it as a “perfect kind of sci-fi dream” doesn’t feel very hyperbolic if you’re familiar with the game’s design. Playing it in VR is pretty special.

Earlier this week we asked what you plan on doing first in No Man’s Sky VR once it comes to VR and there have been a wide range of enticing responses.

“It’s also been hugely challenging for us to take this big, broad game and make it so that people can explore it with a headset and virtual controllers and things like that,” says Murray. “But I’m excited for it to come out and it’s been very creatively driven. It’s something that we have wanted to work on for a long time and it’s almost been like our dessert. Like our pudding. We’ve worked on a lot of other features and it’s been like, ‘When we’re done with all of that, then we can have time to have our nice little treat at the end.'”

Last week Murray was quoted as saying that over one million people that currently own No Man’s Sky also own a VR headset, echoing a previous comment from GDC earlier this year. I can imagine that once the VR support goes live that number will only increase even further.

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Community Download: What Will You Do First In No Man’s Sky VR?

Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. Today we’re talking about No Man’s Sky VR.

We’re smack dab in the middle of summer which means that the big Beyond update for No Man’s Sky should be dropping very soon. The Beyond update is of course the big overhaul that will include a revamp of its online offerings as well as full VR support for the native game on both PSVR and PC VR headsets.

Yes, that means you do not need to buy a separate VR version of the game (looking at you Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Borderlands 2 VR, etc) and you will be able to play online with non-VR players across the same universe and same save files. In fact, according to Sean Murray, over one million existing No Man’s Sky players have VR headsets ready to go.

We’ve gone hands-on with the VR update on both a Vive Pro and PSVR (you can read about those impressions here) as well as briefly on a Valve Index. Needless to say we’re extremely excited to play this game in VR and we’ve thought it fit the format perfectly ever since its original launch back in 2016.

With such an anticipated new release fast approaching (although we still don’t have a date other than Summer 2019) we need to know: What do you plan on doing first in No Man’s Sky VR once it launches? Are you eager to fly around exploring the stars or do you want to complete the journey to the center of the universe? Are you excited to meet up with friends in VR or do you just want to build bases across planet surfaces?

Let us know what you’re most excited to do down in the comments below!

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No Man’s Sky Beyond Rating Suggests VR Release Nears

Look, we’re as excited for the No Man’s Sky VR release date as you are.

But, no, we don’t know when it’s coming out so we can’t tell you when it’s coming out. The best we can do is guess. Given that the anticipated update was just rated by the Australian Government, though, we’d at least estimate it’s… kind of soonish?

No Man’s Sky Beyond, as the update is called, has been given a PG rating as of July 8. Typically games get their ratings anywhere between two months to a few weeks before release. We already knew Beyond was coming this summer, so hopefully it’s towards the shorter end of that window.

Beyond will bring full VR support to the PS4 and PC versions of the game for the first time. You’ll be able to explore every single planet with a headset on and developer Hello Games has also built in new interactions and multiplayer support.

Beyond will be comprised of three major components, VR being one of them. Another is No Man’s Sky Online, a revamped multiplayer experience designed to bring players together. Hello Games says it’s not a VR MMO, though, as it won’t need a subscription or include microtransactions. We’re still yet to learn what the third and final ingredient will be.

Either way, we can’t wait to find out. No Man’s Sky Beyond will be free for everyone that already owns a copy of the game. We went hands-on with the experience earlier in the year and found it to be hugely promising.

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All the PlayStation VR Videogame Release Date’s from Sony’s State of Play Broadcast

To kick off the first State of Play programme Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) had quite the virtual reality (VR) show to put on, with a myriad of videogame announcements almost purely focused on PlayStation VR. It all went by in quite a burr of videos, dates and information, so VRFocus has collated it all together.

Falcon Age

It certainly looks like a good year for PlayStation VR owners, with 12 titles confirmed for this year, from brand new ones like Iron Man VR to videogames that have been teased for years like No Man’s Sky.

PlayStation VR dates:

  • Mini-Mech Mayhem – 18th June 2019
  • Jupiter & Mars – 22nd April 2019
  • Falcon Age – 9th April 2019
  • Trover Saves the Universe – 31st May 2019
  • Everybody’s Golf VR – 21st May 2019
  • Table of Tales – 16th April 2019
  • Vacation Simulator – 18th June 2019
  • Blood & Truth – 28th May 2019

Other Titles Announced:

Trover Saves the Universe

PlayStation VR fans have been waiting quite a while for some of those dates, such as London Studios’ seedy dive into the criminal underworld with Blood & Truth, or for something a little lighter there’s always Owlchemy Labs’ Vacation Simulator which is coming to PC VR headsets first next month.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of PlayStation VR and all of its latest videogames, reporting back with new updates.

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No Man’s Sky: Beyond Finally Brings the Title to PlayStation VR and Steam VR

It’s not just PlayStation VR owners who’ve enjoyed some good news tonight, with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive getting in on the action thanks to Hello Games. The studio has announced that it’s intergalactic sci-fi sandbox No Man’s Sky, is to receive an update this summer finally making the videogame virtual reality (VR) compatible.

No Man's Sky: Beyond

It has long been rumoured that a VR version of No Man’s Sky would be made – or that it would be a good fit – but until today nothing was ever confirmed. Called No Man’s Sky: Beyond, it is, in fact, an update to the main title rather than a separate videogame Hello Games’ Sean Murray confirmed in a Steam posting: “No Man’s Sky Virtual Reality is not a separate mode, but the entire game brought to life in virtual reality. Anything possible in No Man’s Sky, NEXT or any other update is ready and waiting as an immersive and enriched VR experience.”

It’ll be the same videogame fans know and love but in VR. Fully immersing players in its universe like never before, and it’ll be completely free, all you need to own is the original title.

“By bringing full VR support, for free, to the millions of players already playing the game, No Man’s Sky will become perhaps the most owned VR title when released.” Murray adds. “This amazes us, and is utterly humbling. The team is working so hard to live up to the expectations that creates. We are excited for that moment when millions of players will suddenly update and be able to set foot on their home planets and explore the intricate bases they have built in virtual reality for the first time.”

No Man's Sky: Beyond

No Man’s Sky: Beyond Steam VR will be released simultaneously to PlayStation VR and this Summer. As further details regarding VR compatibility are released, VRFocus will keep you updated.