No Man's Sky: Mysterious Cassette Tapes ARG Points to 'Portal' Update

Now you're thinking with portals.

By Hope Corrigan

No Man's Sky Developer Hello Games has begun sending mysterious packages containing cassette tapes to some of their Reddit moderators.

Each of the tapes currently received is marked as a number out of 16, and so far seven individuals have come forward claiming to own a tape, with five already having uploaded their audio.

The Reddit community is working together to decipher the information in this ARG, and so far has produced that every tape features the word 'Portal'. This was apparent after spectrographs of the recording revealed a number sequence which when run through a common letter substitution cipher ROT13 and converted from HEX to ASCII revealed the word.

'Portal' seems indicative that the next update coming to No Man's Sky may activate the seemingly dormant portals that are already scattered around the procedurally generated world. This would hopefully add more portability which is something Hello Games also addressed during the last updated

Speculation amongst the forum suggests that the word was included on every tape in case of lost units or people being unable or unwilling to provide their audio files once received. This is, however, potentially only one piece of the puzzle and as more information trickles in we should be able to find more answers about just what Hello Games is teasing with this mysterious ARG.

Hope Corrigan is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can find her on the internet.

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