Hello Games’ Sean Murray Sets the Internet On Fire With a Single Emoji That Could Mean More No Man’s Sky News, Light No Fire, or Nothing at All

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

Say what you will about Murray, but he knows how to get people talking. This fact is proven by the existence of a single tweet sent today containing a single emoji. Fan reactions to Murray’s tweet of an Earth emoji are bordering on hysteria, as fans struggle to decipher its meaning. Is this a hint that we’re getting another No Man’s Sky update? After all, there are planets in this game—a whole bunch of them, in fact—and Earth is a planet, too.

It’s just as likely that Murray is teasing news related to Hello Games’ upcoming open-world survival RPG, Light No Fire. We haven’t seen much of it yet, and it still doesn’t have a release date. And most importantly, much of its marketing so far has been its ambition to create a single planet on the scale of our own real-world Earth, which would explain the emoji.

Either way, Hello Games fans have gone crazy.

“If this is another NMS update I’ll be super excited, if it’s Light no Fire news I might explode,” read one tweet in response.

Conversely, another fan wrote: “If this is another NMS update I’m going to explode. If it’s light, no fire I won’t be as excited, but I’m still interested.”

“Light No Fire is supposed to be the size of Earth,” another fan rightly pointed out. “Is this just a NMS prank or something else?”

And then there’s a whole series of wild reactions depicted in GIF form, as is tradition.

You see the picture.

In all honesty, the theory that we’re about to learn something potentially significant about Light No Fire doesn’t strike me as a pure hope for the reason detailed above, and given that this is Hello Games’ first new game in eight years, the extreme reaction isn’t unwarranted. The ball is in your court, Murray, don’t let us down.

In the meantime, here are the best sci-fi games to play today.