No Man's Sky game delay leads to death threats

NO Man’s Sky, a game about searching for intelligent life on faraway planets, has been delayed. The news, however, has made us question the status of intelligent life on Earth — both journalists and the developer have received death threats because of the delay.

Once or twice a year, behaviour like this emerges that reminds us why gaming is still associated with angry young men, using the internet to vent their rage at the world.

No Man’s Sky, originally marked down for a release in late June, has been delayed until August instead, after developer Sean Murray realised “some key moments needed extra polish to bring them up to our standards — I have had to make the tough choice to delay the game for a few weeks to allow us to deliver something special”.