Why No Man's Sky will reignite the space sim renaissance

Maybe history really is cyclical. Video games certainly make that case, especially in the last few years as genres long thought dead are resurrected and reinvented: fighting games; isometric, turn-based RPGs; and perhaps the oddest of all, hardcore space sims . Led by a reanimated Elite franchise and the crowdfunding juggernaut Star Citizen, space sims have risen from their late-90s grave and are the