A rather secretive legal battle has been keeping lawyers busy for the past three years as it has been revealed that Sky, the television company, went after Hello Games because they called their game No Man’s Sky. Sky are rather protective of their name and actually won a case against Microsoft which forced them to change the name of their Skydrive service to OneDrive.
Hello Games top dog Sean Murray tweeted the news of the settlement late on Friday.
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
Details of the settlement have not been revealed but it may explain why Sean vanished from the public eye for a year or so, the stress from the legal battle would have been huge. However, he can still see the funny side of the whole thing.
On the plus side perhaps this is the real reason Skynet never happened…
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) June 18, 2016
Source: Twitter
SamBeThyName
Air. Mine
SamBeThyName
Eat, Look, Walk, Think, Earth, Move, Hear, Typing, TheSixthAxis. Mine ALL MINE I TELLS YAS!
ron_mcphatty
Looks like you’ve got all the good ones… I’ll just take Sam then!
SamBeThyName
Both Ron and underscore are also mine. “soz” but I’ll be seeing you in court. And you should be warned I n court I am both Judge Judy and exicutioner.
And @ Steven – sweet, I normally have to pay for that kind of thing.
ron_mcphatty
Alright, I’ll see you in court, but not before I claim the words Shoulder Pads, Helmet and Codpiece. Oh, and I. AM. THE LAW! Double Whammy.
The Lone Steven
Sony would like to have a few words with you about MOVE and THESIXTHAXIS. But first, you need to be scanned and body checked by TSA. A very thorough indept body check.
JR.
Sky are also the reason why uk netflix is so shit.
camdaz
What a load of B*****KS
I never once thought of Sky TV when reading anything about this game.
Andrewww
Unbelievable. But, as the comments above clearly show, they definitely did a good job improving their reputation doing such nonsense.
TSBonyman
I’m glad they won, “No Mans Android Tv Box” just wouldn’t have the same ring to it.