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HISTORICAL FACTS: Martin griffiths - The Untold Story

No Man's Sky updates like Xeno Arena take "2-3x" longer on Switch 2 and Steam Deck because Hello Games has to beat "impossible memory constraints," engineer says

It can "take a disproportionate amount of engineering time" to nail

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No Man's Sky's latest patch fixes a bug that's in the top 2 hardest issues the devs have ever had to solve in the survival game: "Apologies this one got through"

It was "particularly tricky" to address

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"We got there in the end": No Man's Sky dev says sorry "it took so long" to add customizable ships to the Switch 1 version, but optimizing things enough "was a difficult technical challenge"

Bring on more weird and wonderful spaceships

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‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south

‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City

The Guardian - UK

Which are the 150+ countries that have recognised Palestine as of 2025?

The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 157 UN member states, representing 81 percent of members.

Al Jazeera

No Man's Sky's latest update "stretched our engine limits" on the 9-year-old game, but Hello Games dev says it's "satisfying to see the fruits of that labour"

Dive! Dive! Dive!

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“Flying model planes and covering the phone with a pillow was all I was capable of at the time”: The unexpected triumph of Mike Oldfield’s Hergest Ridge, an album he didn’t want to make

Overwhelmed by the success of Tubular Bells, he found peace in a solitary house on a hill and in playing ancient music in an old mansion. Even when his peace was shattered, he managed to create an uplifting and chart-topping record

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Post Office scandal drove 13 victims to suicide and dozens more considered taking their own lives, damning inquiry report reveals

Inquiry report delivers devastating assessment of the damage done by the scandal, which is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history

Evening Standard

No Man's Sky programmer shares the "first 3D world" he co-created at 18 years old, which was "a foundational step for me from there to No Man's Sky"

"It might seem primitive and crude"

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Man left brain damaged after headache turned out to be ‘one in a million’ condition

The incredibly rare condition affects fewer than one in a million people

The Independent UK

‘I’m a pain in the backside ... an awkward sod’: Alan Bates on love, justice and the Post Office scandal

He became a household name after ITV turned Britain’s biggest miscarriage of justice into a drama. He reflects on his fight for compensation, turning down an OBE – and getting married on Richard Branson’s island

The Guardian - UK

No Man's Sky dev reflects on the new Very Positive rating on Steam and promises that this is only the beginning: 'We aren't even close to being finished yet'

Eight years is apparently not long enough.

PC Gamer

No Man's Sky dev says implementing 8K visuals into the PS5 Pro version "completely reset my world view" on the "repeated narrative" that there's no difference between 4K and 8K

His old "preconception" meant the visual upgrade came as "a very unexpected surprise"

GamesRadar

No Man's Sky dev shares another reminder of how hard game dev is: 20 different formats to balance, with "around 140 combinations of graphics options" on PC

"Which I hope conveys the complexity involved in releasing a large cross platform game like ours"

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The Standard 100: People shaping London in Politics, Security, Knife Crime, Transport and Charity

Rachel Reeves, Sadiq Khan and Richard Curtis are among the top hundred people shaping the capital in 2024

PC Gamer

No Man's Sky dev pulls out all the stops to fix a player's buggy save with 611 hours of playtime at risk: 'I promise to hawk that bug and fix it'

Hello Games simply can't stop fixing No Man's Sky.

GamesRadar

No Man's Sky dev fixed one fan's 611-hour save because "when a player has put that much into our game it deserves the engineering fix"

With saves so big, devs "can't help but take extra time" to fix them

The Guardian - UK

Former foreign policy adviser to three UK PMs appointed as UN aid chief

Tom Fletcher becomes sixth Briton in a row to take up post despite calls for it to be subject to open competition

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As No Man's Sky gears up to become a PS5 Pro-enhanced game, 1 dev teases that "as an engine programmer who has been through all the PS iterations," the "console absolutely rocks"

Hello Games can "take pride that our tiny team is part of this"

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18 years later, No Man's Sky dev reveals prototype footage of the first Harry Potter open-world game - and explains its unlikely link to an iconic FPS

Harry Potter and Quake share a surprising lineage

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No Man's Sky dev proves it's not all "smoke and mirrors in space games" by zipping across "3 planets in 50 seconds" to show how "powerful" the engine really is

"A nice demo of how seamless and powerful our engine is," from Hello Games programmer Martin Griffiths

The Guardian - UK

Sudan on precipice of famine ‘beyond imagination’, says outgoing UN aid chief

Man-made crises in Gaza and Sudan leaving millions of people at risk, says retiring British diplomat Martin Griffiths

International Business Times

Israel Says It Can Send Lebanon 'Back To Stone Age' As UN Warns Against War

Israel said it does not want war in Lebanon but could send its neighbour "back to the Stone Age", as the UN's humanitarian chief warned such a conflict would be "potentially apocalyptic".

Al Jazeera

Israeli forces continue Gaza bombardment as UN aid chief demands access

Attacks come as UN sounds alarm over deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, demands opening of crossings.

The Independent UK

The US pier in Gaza is facing its latest challenge — whether the UN will keep delivering the aid

The U.S.-built pier to bring food to Gaza is facing one of its most serious challenges yet

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