'No Man's Sky' update brings sentient robots and freighter-to-freighter combat

Has there ever been a game like No Man's Sky? It was dead on arrival when it launched seven years ago, but developer Hello Games has methodically updated the title, adding new features, steadily increasing its popularity and eventually surpassing the lofty expectations for the game's original release. To that end, there's already been three fairly beefy updates this year alone, but get ready for a fourth. The developer just dropped No Man's Sky: Echos to commemorate the seventh anniversary of everyone's favorite space sim. The update brings some nifty new gameplay elements, like a race of sentient robots that promise "rich, new story content" and the ability to create your own robot avatar for battles and resource collection.