Did you think that the highly anticipated, procedurally generated space exploration game No Man's Sky was in any way related to British telecommunications and broadcasting giant Sky? Of course you didn't. But it apparently took the legal system three years to come to the same conclusion.
That's according to Sean Murray, managing director of No Man's Sky maker Hello Games. Over the weekend, Murray tweeted that the company had settled a legal dispute with Sky over the game's name after "3 years of secret stupid legal nonsense." In a follow-up tweet, he added that "this is the same folks who made Microsoft change Skydrive to Onedrive... so it was pretty serious." ("On the plus side perhaps this is the real reason Skynet never happened..." he joked)
Sky did indeed go after Microsoft's Skydrive back in 2014, forcing an abrupt name change from the massive company. Last year, Sky also took legal action against Microsoft's Skype, arguing that the service's logo looked like a cloud "and thus may readily be associated with the word 'sky.'" A European court eventually agreed with that argument.
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