{"id":2128530,"date":"2026-09-04T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2128530"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:38:14","slug":"it-looks-like-no-mans-skys-next-update-is-imminent-as-sean-murray-breaks-out-the-emojis-again-and-fans-reckon-its-a-big-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2128530","title":{"rendered":"It looks like No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s next update is imminent as Sean Murray breaks out the emojis again &#8211; and fans reckon it&#8217;s a big one"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/no-mans-sky\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      No Man&#8217;s Sky<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">It looks like No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s next update is imminent as Sean Murray breaks out the emojis again &#8211; and fans reckon it&#8217;s a big one<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Watch this space.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/nms-emoji-header.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"A cocktail emoji superimposed over blurred No Man&apos;s Sky artwork of a space traveller.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"nms-emoji-header.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer\/Hello Games<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Wales avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1521645425.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Matt Wales avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1521645425.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/matt-wales\">Matt Wales<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Staff Writer<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\n<p>Published on   <time datetime=\"2026-09-04T18:38:14+00:00\" data-auto-time-zone=\"true\" data-year=\"numeric\" data-month=\"short\" data-day=\"numeric\" data-hour=\"numeric\" data-minute=\"numeric\">Sept. 4, 2026, 6:38 p.m.<\/time>\n              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-cosmos-update-imminent-emoji-tease?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          3 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"header_actions\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"5ef09fe3-a664-4cab-8b5d-a1763c3d4ae3\" data-name=\"No Manu0027s Sky\" data-follow-text=\"Follow No Manu0026#39;s Sky\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following No Manu0026#39;s Sky\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow No Manu0027s Sky\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following No Manu0027s Sky\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow No Man&apos;s Sky\" title=\"Follow No Man&apos;s Sky\"><br \/>\n  Follow No Man&#8217;s Sky<br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n  <a class=\"button outline wide preferred_source_button\" data-component=\"preferred-source-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=eurogamer.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"logo\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><br \/>\nPrioritise us on Google  <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s time to brace yourself once more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/no-mans-sky\">No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/a> fans: Sean Murray is delving into his big bag of emojis, indicating &#8211; with reliable certainty &#8211; the exploratory space sim&#8217;s highly anticipated 10th anniversary update will be with us very soon. And there&#8217;s hope among the playerbase that Cosmos, as the update was previously confirmed to be called, might be a big &#8216;un.<\/p>\n<p>Murray has, of course, made pre-update emoji-posting a bit of a tradition by this point. It all started back in 2020 when he took to social media with an egg emoji, teasing the release of No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s Living Ship update. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sean-murray-hello-games-reflects-10-years-no-mans-sky\">Murray explained in a recent interview with Eurogamer<\/a>, he was reluctant to use social media too much at the time, preferring to let Hello Games&#8217; work speak for itself. But the team was insistent. &#8220;And I was like, what&#8217;s the minimum we can say and get away with it?,&#8221; he recalled, &#8220;And someone was like, one letter. And then someone else said an emoji, and I was like, &#8216;Fine, I&#8217;ll do an emoji, and then that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m doing on social media!'&#8221; And the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"No Man&apos;s Sky 10th Anniversary Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c-KoLySxccY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/c-KoLySxccY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">No Man&#8217;s Sky 10th Anniversary Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Skip to the end for the Cosmos tease.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c-KoLySxccY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From that egg hatched a multitude of subsequent emojis. We&#8217;ve had a bulging bicep for No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s Endurance update, a streaky rasher for its Beacon update, a door for Breach, and a hi-vis vest for Remnant. And that&#8217;s just for starters. Which brings us to the present &#8211; and a brand-new emoji suggesting Cosmos&#8217; release is looming. Earlier today, Murray <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoMansSky\/status\/2095641858374349074?s=20\">brushed off his emoji stash and posted a single gleaming cocktail glass<\/a> &#8211; a bit of a wink to No Man&#8217;s Sky fans who started jokingly insisting that, actually, everyone expecting a mega space-themed update from Cosmos was just pronouncing it wrong.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Historically, Murray&#8217;s emojis have arrived when No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s next update is just a few days or so away from release, with the space sim&#8217;s most recent updates tending to launch early afternoon on a Wednesday. So assuming the pattern holds and Murray isn&#8217;t just letting the world know his weekend will include a posh drink in a fancy glass, what might Cosmos bring? Well, that&#8217;s the million space-dollar question. The hope, of course, is that it&#8217;s a big one, and the reason some of the community believes it could be is two-fold: first, because it&#8217;s the update marking No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s 10th birthday and, secondly, because &#8211; well &#8211; things don&#8217;t get much bigger than the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Hopes on the No Man&#8217;s Sky subreddit have ranged from a complete galaxy overhaul to planets with multiple biomes &#8211; something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-boss-sean-murray-updates-on-light-no-fire\">Hello Games&#8217; upcoming single planet sim Light No Fire<\/a> will have. And the furious fan speculation has folded in pretty much everything else you can think of: more stuff to see out among the stars, more options for galactic traversal. Some, however, are eager for an overhaul to the game&#8217;s technical underpinnings to allow for more vibrant in-game communities: proper multiplayer synchronisation, for instance, and a more persistent universe (you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-players-building-utopia-optimism-week\">read about the No Man&#8217;s Sky players building utopia at the end of the universe elsewhere on Eurogamer<\/a>). Or as one wag put it on Reddit when the Cosmos name was originally revealed, &#8220;They&#8217;re finally adding space to No Man&#8217;s Sky, I can&#8217;t believe it!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Cosmos ends up being, Murray&#8217;s furious emoji-ing continues &#8211; a follow-up tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hellogames\/status\/2095806723017576629?s=20\">from Hello Games&#8217; social media account features not one but <em>three<\/em> cocktail glasses<\/a> &#8211; suggesting we really don&#8217;t have long to wait. And if it just ends up being a drinks update? Well, even space-folk need to hydrate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s time to brace yourself once more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/no-mans-sky\">No Man&#8217;s Sky<\/a> fans: Sean Murray is delving into his big bag of emojis, indicating &#8211; with reliable certainty &#8211; the exploratory space sim&#8217;s highly anticipated 10th anniversary update will be with us very soon. And there&#8217;s hope among the playerbase that Cosmos, as the update was previously confirmed to be called, might be a big &#8216;un.<\/p>\n<p>Murray has, of course, made pre-update emoji-posting a bit of a tradition by this point. It all started back in 2020 when he took to social media with an egg emoji, teasing the release of No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s Living Ship update. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sean-murray-hello-games-reflects-10-years-no-mans-sky\">Murray explained in a recent interview with Eurogamer<\/a>, he was reluctant to use social media too much at the time, preferring to let Hello Games&#8217; work speak for itself. But the team was insistent. &#8220;And I was like, what&#8217;s the minimum we can say and get away with it?,&#8221; he recalled, &#8220;And someone was like, one letter. And then someone else said an emoji, and I was like, &#8216;Fine, I&#8217;ll do an emoji, and then that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m doing on social media!'&#8221; And the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"No Man&apos;s Sky 10th Anniversary Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c-KoLySxccY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/c-KoLySxccY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">No Man&#8217;s Sky 10th Anniversary Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Skip to the end for the Cosmos tease.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c-KoLySxccY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From that egg hatched a multitude of subsequent emojis. We&#8217;ve had a bulging bicep for No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s Endurance update, a streaky rasher for its Beacon update, a door for Breach, and a hi-vis vest for Remnant. And that&#8217;s just for starters. Which brings us to the present &#8211; and a brand-new emoji suggesting Cosmos&#8217; release is looming. Earlier today, Murray <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NoMansSky\/status\/2095641858374349074?s=20\">brushed off his emoji stash and posted a single gleaming cocktail glass<\/a> &#8211; a bit of a wink to No Man&#8217;s Sky fans who started jokingly insisting that, actually, everyone expecting a mega space-themed update from Cosmos was just pronouncing it wrong.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Historically, Murray&#8217;s emojis have arrived when No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s next update is just a few days or so away from release, with the space sim&#8217;s most recent updates tending to launch early afternoon on a Wednesday. So assuming the pattern holds and Murray isn&#8217;t just letting the world know his weekend will include a posh drink in a fancy glass, what might Cosmos bring? Well, that&#8217;s the million space-dollar question. The hope, of course, is that it&#8217;s a big one, and the reason some of the community believes it could be is two-fold: first, because it&#8217;s the update marking No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s 10th birthday and, secondly, because &#8211; well &#8211; things don&#8217;t get much bigger than the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Hopes on the No Man&#8217;s Sky subreddit have ranged from a complete galaxy overhaul to planets with multiple biomes &#8211; something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-boss-sean-murray-updates-on-light-no-fire\">Hello Games&#8217; upcoming single planet sim Light No Fire<\/a> will have. And the furious fan speculation has folded in pretty much everything else you can think of: more stuff to see out among the stars, more options for galactic traversal. Some, however, are eager for an overhaul to the game&#8217;s technical underpinnings to allow for more vibrant in-game communities: proper multiplayer synchronisation, for instance, and a more persistent universe (you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-players-building-utopia-optimism-week\">read about the No Man&#8217;s Sky players building utopia at the end of the universe elsewhere on Eurogamer<\/a>). Or as one wag put it on Reddit when the Cosmos name was originally revealed, &#8220;They&#8217;re finally adding space to No Man&#8217;s Sky, I can&#8217;t believe it!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Cosmos ends up being, Murray&#8217;s furious emoji-ing continues &#8211; a follow-up tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hellogames\/status\/2095806723017576629?s=20\">from Hello Games&#8217; social media account features not one but <em>three<\/em> cocktail glasses<\/a> &#8211; suggesting we really don&#8217;t have long to wait. And if it just ends up being a drinks update? Well, even space-folk need to hydrate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News No Man&#8217;s Sky It looks like No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s next update is imminent as Sean Murray breaks out the emojis again &#8211; and fans reckon it&#8217;s a big one Watch this space. 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