No Man’s Sky Devs Working on ‘Critical Issues’

No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has laid out what the team is doing to fix the game’s numerous problems.

In a post on the No Man’s Sky website, Hello Games says its working on fixes for the most “critical issues,” and those problems will be addressed in a patch in the “near future.” It's not made clear what those issues are, specifically.

The team has also brought in a QA group that’s bigger than the entire dev team in the hopes of spotting bugs before they find their way into the retail version No Man’s Sky.

As well as offering an apology to players suffering in-game issues, Hello Games offered up the following workarounds for certain problems:

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Ubisoft Invents Fart-Smelling Virtual Reality Tech for South Park

Virtual Reality may be filling our eyes and ears right now, but Ubisoft has taken things a step further by creating a Nosulus Rift - a mask that pipes the smell of farts into your nose as you create them in South Park: the Fractured But Whole. Yes.

This actual, genuine, no-fooling real bit of tech will be travelling to Cologne in time for Gamescom, where at least one person from the IGN team will be forced to use it. I really hope it's not me.

Whoever gets the honour, they'll likely end up smelling more than they bargained for. As producer Jason Schroeder puts it, "one of your special abilities

is really the power of your ass."

That's borne out by our E3 preview of The Fractured But Whole, which included "more fart sound effects in 20 minutes than I've ever heard in any other video game."

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Final Fantasy 15 DLC Packs to Make Each Party Member Playable

While the main game has the player exclusively controlling lead character, Noctis, Final Fantasy XV's DLC packs will make each of his roadtripping buddies  - Ignis, Gladiolus and Prompto - playable for their own adventure.

While the game's season pass, and those packs, were announced last week, we hadn't had confirmation of the nature of each until they were listed on the game's official website (as translated by Siliconera).

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Daily Deals: £5 off When You Pre-Order FIFA 17, Uncharted 4, No Man’s Sky

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Daily Deals: £5 off When You Pre-Order FIFA 17, Uncharted 4, No Man’s Sky

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Enter Code: FIFA5 in basket to get deal. Great deal today from Smyths. Lots of us in the office have already taken advantage of this as we simply cannot wait to get our hands on the new FIFA - it is only a month and half away from release! Pre-order FIFA 17 for £36.99 when you enter code FIFA5 at checkout.

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Deus Ex Go Release Date Announced

Deus Ex Go—the turn-based mobile game based in the Deus Ex universe—will be released August 18 on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.

The announcement came via Twitter, with Square Enix Montreal give up no other information besides the sunglasses emoji.

Deus Ex Go announcement

Like Hitman Go and Lara Croft Go, Deux Ex Go is a translation of the console game to a mobile puzzler that takes on some of its key traits; the hack-and-swipe adventure features challenging puzzles and its own level editor.

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Deus Ex Go Release Date Announced

Deus Ex Go—the turn-based mobile game based in the Deus Ex universe—will be released August 18 on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.

The announcement came via Twitter, with Square Enix Montreal give up no other information besides the sunglasses emoji.

Deus Ex Go announcement

Like Hitman Go and Lara Croft Go, Deux Ex Go is a translation of the console game to a mobile puzzler that takes on some of its key traits; the hack-and-swipe adventure features challenging puzzles and its own level editor.

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Bad Boys 3 Bumped to 2018, Gets a New Title

The long-gestating Bad Boys 3 has received a name change and has been pushed back six months, reports Deadline. The newly titled Bad Boys for Life was set to debut on June 2, 2017 but will instead arrive on January 12, 2018.

According to Deadline the studio is yet to settle on a production start date, meaning the film would not be ready for release during the 2017 US summer.

After years of speculation Sony officially confirmed that third and fourth instalments in the dormant Bad Boy series were in the works back in August 2015. At the time Bad Boys III was set to be released in February 2017 and Bad Boys IV would arrive in July 2019. Earlier this year the third film was pushed to June 2, 2017.

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