"No Man's Sky" Just Came Out And Players Have Already Named A Bunch Of Planets After Harambe

The internet never met a joke it wouldn’t like to drive into the ground, past our molten core and back through the other end of the Earth’s crust.

And that’s precisely what it’s done to No Man’s Land, the hotly anticipated new sci-fi game that, perhaps unwisely, allows its users to discover and then christen its roughly 18 quintillion planets.

As ABC News points out, there are exactly 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets to find. Yet, that’s 18,446,744,073,709,551,614 planets too many, because early players have only two names they want to use for each of them.

The first is ‘Planet McPlanety Face’.

The second is – and do we even really need to say it? – ‘Harambe’.

The game only just went on sale today, but critics with advance copies have rushed to dedicate as many planets as possible to a dead gorilla and a ship that is not called Boaty McBoatface.

(Harambe’s having quite a year - posthumously, of course – following his incredible vote-getting during the Australian federal election, not to mention this haunting mural.)

Don’t feel too bad for game creator Sean Murray though. After all…

Photo: Hello Games.