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. "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?"
