'No Man's Sky' Release Date, Trailer, News, And Updates: Sean Murray Of Hello Games Says It Would Take 5 Billion Years To Spend A Second On Every Planet In The Game [VIDEO]

"No Man's Sky" is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated and revolutionary games coming out in the immediate future.

For those of you that haven't heard about it yet, "No Man's Sky" is game that takes place across an entire galaxy that is actually the size of a galaxy. In order to do this Sean Murray and his team at "Hello Games" created algorithms to create each planet. There are no missions, and no goal other than to head towards the center.

Sean Murray, recently told IGN that the procedurally generated universe in creates worlds on the scale of two to the power of 64, that's 18.4 quintillion planets, or 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets. If you were to visit one persecond it would take about 5 billion years. To put this in perspective our own, real world sun, will go out in about 4.6 billion years.

In order to test a game world of this magnitude, Hello Games is using bots to go and take photos of the planets.

"No Man's Sky" will arrive on PC after a period of being a PS4 exclusive, though it's unknown just when that will be, it will be sometime in 2015.

A NeoGAF poster noted the September issue of Edge magazine states that No Man's Sky developer Sean Murray says players have the option to "play the game offline". They also have the option to "name flora and fauna on their own terms."

Playstation Lifestyle quoted Murray saying, " Hopefully you can get a sense with No Man's Sky, and what we're trying to do is a culmination of ambition for us.

We pretty much made Joe Danger to give us the ability to make No Man's Sky.

We're not trying to make Halo or Call of Duty. You can be bored in this game. It's not going to be scripted. There will be space battles and dinosaurs, there's a lot of fun to be had. But I had to do what I should do as a sci-fi explorer, I had to go out and find that, and that's really interesting."

"No Man's Sky" has an expected to release date in 2015.

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