Intermezzo: The Summer of No Man's Sky
Well, this was unexpected. I never thought I would be writing two posts about a game I only dabble in, which is to say No Man's Sky. Back on July 28, I wrote a piece about how NMS was getting me to appreciate the less loathsome aspects of summer, the worst season of all. Now, as I sit on the precipice of Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer in America, I am once again compelled to write a piece, but this time about Hello Games' recent update, Voyagers — a content drop that is blowing up the internet as I write this. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Voyagers is not the largest update Hello Games has ever released, but it might be the most consequential since base building was added to the game oh so long ago. Voyagers arrived with what is often considered the mic-drop of space games: incorporating spaceship interiors into the game for a maximum of immersion. In a game that long had spaceships only interactable from the fa...