Well, it was a nice, quiet Friday afternoon until Hello Games managing director Sean Murray decided to drop an Earth-shaped bomb onto the internet. Say what you want about Murray, but he knows how to get people talking. That fact is provable due to the existence of a single tweet sent out today containing a solitary emoji.
Fan reactions to Murray's tweet of an Earth emoji are bordering on the hysterical as fans clamor to decipher its meaning. Is it a clue that we're getting another No Man's Sky update? After all, there are planets in that game - a whole bunch of them, in fact - and the Earth is also a planet. It's just as likely that Murray is teasing news related to Hello Games' upcoming open-world survival RPG Light No Fire .
We haven't seen a whole lot of that yet, and it still doesn't have a release date. And chiefly, a big hunk of its marketing so far has been its ambition to create a single planet at the scale of our own real-life Earth, which would explain the emoji. Whatever it is, Hello Games fans have come unglued.
"If this is another NMS update I will be very excited, if this is Light no Fire news, I may explode," reads one tweet in reaction. Conversely, another fan wrote , "If this is another NMS update ima explode if it's light no fire i won't be as excited but im still interested." "Light No Fire is supposed to be Earth sized," another fan rightly pointed out .
"Is this regular NMS hijinx or something else." And then there are a slew of unhinged reactions portra.
