{"id":585238,"date":"2026-03-17T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ccp-still-isnt-giving-up-on-its-eve-online-first-person-shooter-dreams"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:47:33","slug":"ccp-still-isnt-giving-up-on-its-eve-online-first-person-shooter-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ccp-still-isnt-giving-up-on-its-eve-online-first-person-shooter-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP still isn&#8217;t giving up on its EVE Online first-person shooter dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ccp-still-isnt-giving-up-on-its-eve-online-first-person-shooter-dreams.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nDespite having already cancelled one attempt at turning EVE Online into an FPS, developer CCP&#8217;s enthusiasm for the project apparently remains strong: it&#8217;s now confirmed that, two years after Project Nova officially got the chop, work on a new FPS continues at its London Studio.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEVE Online FPS Project Nova was initially unveiled in 2016 as a spiritual successor to CCP&#8217;s long-defunct free-to-play PS3 shooter Dust 514. Almost two years went by with ne&#8217;er a peep on the project, but then October 2018 finally brought a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/heres-gameplay-of-project-nova-the-eve-online-first-person-shooter\">more extensive reveal<\/a>. Unexpectedly, though, just a month later, CCP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ccp-is-going-back-to-the-drawing-board-on-long-awaited-eve-online-shooter-project-nova\">announced<\/a> its intention to &#8220;return to the drawing board&#8221; with Project Nova, and 18 months after that, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/long-in-the-works-eve-online-fps-project-nova-is-officially-cancelled\">game was officially no more<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite that rollercoaster ride, CCP said it remained committed to releasing an EVE Online FPS and that work on a new sci-fi shooter, with expanded scope, would continue at its London studio. That was more than two years ago, though, leading many to assume that the project had also run its a course.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ccp-still-isnt-giving-up-on-its-eve-online-first-person-shooter-dreams\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ccp-still-isnt-giving-up-on-its-eve-online-first-person-shooter-dreams\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having already cancelled one attempt at turning EVE Online into an FPS, developer CCP&#8217;s enthusiasm for the project apparently remains strong: it&#8217;s now confirmed that, two years after Project Nova officially got the chop, work on a new FPS continues at its London Studio. EVE Online FPS Project Nova was initially unveiled in 2016 as a spiritual successor to CCP&#8217;s long-defunct free-to-play PS3 shooter Dust 514. Almost two years went by with ne&#8217;er a peep on the project, but then October 2018 finally brought a more extensive reveal. Unexpectedly, though, just a month later, CCP announced its intention to &#8220;return to the drawing board&#8221; with Project Nova, and 18 months after that, the game was officially no more. Despite that rollercoaster ride, CCP said&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/ccp-still-isnt-giving-up-on-its-eve-online-first-person-shooter-dreams\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[7287,135,59],"class_list":["post-585238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-eve-online","tag-mmo","tag-pc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CCP still isn&#039;t giving up on its EVE Online first-person shooter dreams | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Despite having already cancelled one attempt at turning EVE Online into an FPS, 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