Turns out No Man’s Sky wasn’t necessarily going to be the No Man’s Sky we’re all super-hyped about. That’s because Hello Games was actually, until just recently, embroiled in a secret lawsuit over the game’s name with Britain’s Sky TV. Thankfully, it’s over: Hello Games has “settled” with Sky TV and can use the name No Man’s Sky, which is good, because they’ve been marketing the title under that name for a very long time already. It’s a big victory, in a war fought in secret, for one of the biggest games of the year. The final No Man’s Sky release date is August 9.

No Man’s Sky Lawsuit: Almost Skyless

Evidently, the U.K.-based Sky TV is extremely protective of their name, which has no known meanings beyond their network’s moniker. The company has previously forced Microsoft to change the name of one of their own services, as The Verge—a World Wide Web site on the Internet—first reported. As the No Man’s Sky Twitter also noted, that means the pay television provider’s trademark wrangling was no empty threat. They got Microsoft to bow down to them, after all. No Man’s Sky was under serious threat about its name.

Chances are, the company didn’t beat back or settle Sky TV’s threat on its own… especially considering that a company as powerful as Microsoft couldn’t handle them. Clearly, Sony helped Hello Games out on this one, both on the legal end and maybe even with the settlement or agreement or whatever it was. And thankfully it all ended up with a good outcome before anyone outside the companies ever even knew there was a problem. But still. Sky TV. Remember that name, because if you ever use “Sky” to mean anything else in Europe and you can get apparently get yourself in a big heap of trouble. Be careful out there.