No Man’s Sky review: Total eclipse of the galaxy’s heart

Selected scenes from Ars' first few hours playing No Man's Sky (video link)

The video game No Man's Sky captured our hearts the moment its veil was lifted for one reason: seeming infinity, right now. A very sci-fi, virtual version, of course, but its abstract take is still something wild: more than 18 quintillion planets, all "magically" generated on the fly, for us to immediately fly toward, excavate, and marvel at.

It's not flying cars or an auto-mutating vaccine that can cure all influenza or anything, but it still seems like some sort of sci-fi dream. The marriage of technology and infinity is the kind of thing you might not have ever expected to see, especially on current systems.

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