No Man's Sky's latest update is a whole latest Pokémon-style creature-collection and battle system that's 'an entire multiplayer game all of its own'

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Subscribe to our newsletter No Man's Sky Xeno Arena Trailer - YouTube Watch On I'll just give it to you straight: No Man's Sky is Pokémon now.

There's nothing you or I can do about it.

Today's update, Xeno Arena, will let you amass a little cadre of vicious alien beasts and pit them against one another in holo-arenas, presumably to the holo-death."Xeno Arena lets you raise, train and battle the alien creatures found across the universe," says Hello head honcho Sean Murray.

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"You have everything from dinosaurs to flying cows to robots to gaseous blobs [in No Man's Sky].

We started with this thought that you can discover them and name them...

but what if all that variety had a gameplay purpose? What if you could collect them, breed them, have them as pets...

but also battle them?"So now, when you stumble across a weird bit of fauna in some far-flung corner of No Man's Sky, you'll be able to assess its viability as a warbeast ## Editor's Note This is an interesting development that could shape the future of gaming. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/no-mans-skys-latest-update-is-an-entire-new-pokemon-style-creature-collection-and-battle-system-thats-an-entire-multiplayer-game-all-of-its-own/)