Which means that it's on track for release next month! To say that the game is highly anticipated would be tantamount to calling Star Wars just a fun little sci-fi film. No Man's Sky is one of the most ambitious sounding open world sci-fi games currently on the horizon, the sort of experience where the more you hear about it the more you want to play it. If only to try and wrap your head around its scope.

The announcement was made via Twitter where Hello Games founder Sean Murray can be seen holding up a copy of the final game in front of his team of justifiably excited developers.

It's happened. No Man's Sky just went gold. I'm so incredibly proud of this tiny team. 4 years of emotions pic.twitter.com/YJoI6JVgxq

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) July 7, 2016

The game currently has a release window of sometime between August 9-12.