Project Nova: Fate of the EVE shooter finally sealed

With Project Nova, CCP once announced an ambitious sci-fi shooter in the EVE universe. However, not everything went according to plan and now the fate of the game is finally sealed.

EVE Online has enjoyed great popularity among sci-fi fans for many years and can count on a loyal community. After the announcement, she was already looking forward to the ambitious shooter spin-off Project Nova, but as a result, not everything went according to plan.

Already at the end of 2018, an actually planned alpha test phase was canceled after the game did not meet its own expectations internally. At the time, however, it was emphasized that the project should be retained and that it should be revised more comprehensively. Now it is clear: This plan has apparently finally failed.

Via reddit Pearl Abyss, the parent company of CCP, has now confirmed that Project Nova has now been finally discontinued. The tactically inspired first-person shooter will definitely no longer appear.

The statement states that, among other things, the gaming experience shown at EVE Vegas 2018 "would not have met the ambitious goals for this concept". Project Nova is dead, the responsible team in Iceland has since been assigned to other projects at CCP.

However, CCP should continue to focus on action-oriented gaming experiences with remarkable graphics in the future. The focus is still on the plan of a sci-fi multiplayer shooter, which has meanwhile become so different and developed that it simply has nothing in common with Project Nova. Whether and when the new sci-fi shooter project will be released has not yet been communicated; an official announcement is still pending.

In this context, it was also emphasized that in future no internal projects with work titles will be communicated to the outside, as was the case with Project Nova.

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