Hello Games’ Sean Murray lights the internet on fire with a single emoji that could mean more No Man’s Sky, Light No Fire news, or nothing at all

Well, it was a nice, quiet Friday afternoon until Hello Games managing director Sean Murray decided to drop an Earth-shaped bomb onto the internet.

Say what you want about Murray, but he knows how to get people talking. That fact is provable due to the existence of a single tweet sent out today containing a solitary emoji. Fan reactions to Murray’s tweet of an Earth emoji are bordering on the hysterical as fans clamor to decipher its meaning. Is it a clue that we’re getting another No Man’s Sky update? After all, there are planets in that game – a whole bunch of them, in fact – and the Earth is also a planet.