'No Man's Sky' release date news: Creator, gaming writer get death threats over launch delay

"No Man's Sky" development team director Sean Murray took to Twitter to reveal that he has received "loads" of death threats over the confirmed delay of the game's release. Apart from Hello Games' Murray, Kotaku writer Jason Schreier also has had his share of death threats after having been the first to write about the delay.

"No Man's Sky" was previously slated for release in June until it was announced just recently that the video game will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Windows 10 for PC on Aug. 9 instead. This means that avid gamers will have to wait for another two months before they can get their hands on the highly-anticipated adventure survival game.

This may prove to be frustrating for fans. It turns out that the postponement of "No Man's Sky" release has indeed made many fans upset and furious that some even sent threatening messages to the game developers.

Murray expressed his apologies on Twitter for the movement of release date of "No Man's Sky," while also relaying though in a joking manner that he had been receiving a lot of death threats. He jested that Hello Games already looked like the house from "Home Alone" and adhering to the "Home Alone" premise, asked good-humoredly for him to be told if it was yet "safe to remove the marbles and oil from the stairs" since it was getting "cumbersome" in the building.

Meanwhile, Jason Schreier, a writer for Kotaku which is a video game-focused site, has also received at least one death threat. He posted a screen capture of the angry message expressing hatred toward Schreier for reporting about the delay of "No Man's Sky" launch which is something he essentially had no control over.

In the article Schreier cited unnamed reliable sources that informed Kotaku of the delay. When it was later on officially confirmed by the video game developer and publisher, Forbes reported that some fans even put the blame on the writer for the delay saying that "forcing Sony's hand" with his write-up actually turned the news into reality.

On the other hand, the many level-headed fans who have probably taken in the news peacefully will have to wait a while to explore the 18 quintillion planets in the procedurally generated open universe of "No Man's Sky."