Video game developer Hello Games emerged victorious in their legal battle with the British Sky Broadcasting Group, which claimed the rights to use the word "sky," which appears in both the company's name and Hello Games' "No Man's Sky." The game, which was set to be released this month but was pushed back to August, is a highly anticipated sci-fi game set in an "infinite procedurally generated galaxy."
According to IGN, Hello Games founder and "Joe Danger" creator Sean Murray took to Twitter to share the good news, saying that the legal dispute took three years, but the game developer is now allowed to use the name "No Man's Sky."
Yay! We finally settled with Sky (they own the word "Sky"). We can call our game No Man's Sky. 3 years of secret stupid legal nonsense over
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) June 17, 2016
Murray even said that the British Sky Broadcasting Group are "the same folks who made Microsoft change Skydrive to Onedrive... so it was pretty serious." Polygon reports that back in 2013, Microsoft's cloud storage program called SkyDrive was later renamed to OneDrive thanks to Sky U.K.'s claims that Microsoft was infringing the former's trademark.
As "No Man's Sky" moves forward with development on its finishing touches in time for the August release, Murray is doing the media rounds, giving insights on one of the most groundbreaking games to make a debut in the industry. The algorithm-based game takes gamers on literally a never-ending quest of discovery because of the large-scale galaxy the game will create for the player.
"It's a huge game, it's dauntingly huge," Murray admitted in an interview with TIME. "We talked about there being two to the power of 64 planets that are out there to discover...it's this ridiculous number that you can't even comprehend."
To give you an idea of the massive scale of "No Man's Sky," Murray said, "If a new planet was discovered by a player every second, it would take 500 billion years for them all to be discovered."
"No Man's Sky" is set to land on PlayStation 4 and Windows PC on August 9.
