We may have found another reason for the delay of No Man's Sky to August 9. It appears developer Hello Games was enmeshed in a legal dispute over the game's title.

"Yay! We finally settled with Sky (they own the word "Sky"). We can call our game No Man's Sky. 3 years of secret stupid legal nonsense over," creator Sean Murray tweeted. Sky Telecom is a major communications company in Britain. He wouldn't go into meany details as to what was involved in the settlement, but characterized the issues a "pretty serious."

"This is the same folks who made Microsoft change Skydrive to Onedrive," he said in a followup. This happened in 2013 when a UK court said the name of Microsoft's cloud service infringed on the telecom's trademark. In 2015, a European court also blocked Microsoft from registering Skype as it was again too close to the telecom's name.

With the legal hassle in the rearview mirror, Murray was able to joke a bit. "On the plus side perhaps this is the real reason Skynet never happened," he later tweeted. 

The game was originally supposed to come out next Tuesday, but at the time he announced the delay, Murray said "some key moments needed extra polish to bring them up to our standards." The game is being developed for PlayStation 4 and PC