We’re excited to announce Novus Prime: Escalation, our biggest expansion yet for Novus Prime in PlayStation Home, is going live on March 31 with tons of new content. The Hellfire Games team has been working on Escalation for quite some time, and we can’t wait to see it go live! Until then, I’d like to give you a sneak peek at what to expect in Novus Prime: Escalation.
Multiplayer Sci-Fi Action, Escalated
At its core, Novus Prime is a free-to-play multiplayer space combat shooter that can be played cooperatively or solo. As a pilot recruited by the Earth fleet against the insidious Bot armada, you’ll learn the basics of space flight, personalize your ship with custom weapons and special add-ons, and embark on missions to earn XP and level up.
With Novus Prime: Escalation, we’re essentially doubling the game’s content in one huge expansion. It’s our biggest update yet, featuring new missions, enemies, weapons, companion bots, avatar items, leaderboards, voiceovers, a completed pilot outfit, a new personal space with zero-gravity simulator, and more.
We listen to our players to provide the strongest content offering possible in each update, and Novus Prime: Escalation outdoes every previous update so far. We hope you’ll like the latest content, and if you’re new to the Novus Prime universe, we hope you’ll stick around and check out what’s still to come!
The Metagame
Because our game lives in PlayStation Home, the full Novus Prime experience doesn’t end with completing missions and leveling up. The Novus Prime space station serves as a social hub for players to meet up and hang out, enjoy a nice spacewalk, shop for new items, and upgrade their ships for battle. Novus Prime: Escalation takes that experience further with a new personal space, the Officer’s Quarters, and a private hangar where players can play custom games with friends, view their customized ship up close, and track their score on a private leaderboard.
From concept to completion, a lot of work goes into creating new spaces for our players! We’re fortunate to have some über-talented artists on hand to create some of the best looking environments in PlayStation Home. For example, here’s the concept art for the Officer’s Quarters below:
And here’s how it looks in-game, complete with spacewalk simulator and decorative Novus Prime artwork on the walls:
We asked our community on the PlayStation Forums what they wanted to see in this update, and the majority wanted more missions and their own personal apartment. So, ask and ye shall receive, plus a whole lot more!
Developing for PlayStation Home
One of the great things about developing for PlayStation Home is the ability to continually gather feedback directly from our players in-game and make timely updates to make sure we’re providing our community with the most satisfying game experience possible. It’s super-gratifying to jump into the Novus Prime space immediately after an update goes live and talk to players about the new content as they check it out in real time.
Novus Prime launched in PlayStation Home in December 2010 and already boasts a very active community, with dedicated players constantly competing for the top leaderboard spot and new names showing up each week. It’s feedback from players like you that keeps us cranking out quality content each month, so keep telling us what you want to see in the next update!
We’re having a blast working on the premier sci-fi multiplayer experience for PlayStation Home, and we hope our players love the new content coming soon in Novus Prime: Escalation on March 31. Thanks for stopping by to read about the expansion, and join our Facebook page for the chance to win some awesome giveaways!
11 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 28 March, 2011 at 9:39 pm by Retro_1973
Great stuff! Looking forward to it.
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Posted on 28 March, 2011 at 9:49 pm by AaronSOLDIER
1.50 then
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Posted on 28 March, 2011 at 10:42 pm by Rytteren
get some trophies in there, to be earned. and make me buy some miniS by giving them trophysuport. you would get my money!
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Posted on 28 March, 2011 at 11:22 pm by The_Dark_Energy
Looks fantastic guys, really looking forward to this update.
Oh and promote the employee that went on the official PlayStation Forums and answered my questions
P.S Best of luck with future projects.
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Posted on 29 March, 2011 at 12:13 am by wolffrezer
With the update having new missions and bad guys an girls will they also be a level cap increase along with it an what can we expect to see coming in future when home 1.50 is released will nova get a graphics retrofit
Posted on 29 March, 2011 at 1:17 am by Jeff Posey
A level cap increase is coming soon, but it is not in this release. We have nothing to announce yet for the 1.50 update, but I will say that I can’t wait for PvP!
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Posted on 29 March, 2011 at 12:44 am by VitalogyPJ
Meh!
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Posted on 29 March, 2011 at 8:38 am by Skookie30
Can binx space-walk with me & me other pets hope binx doesn’t Poop in space you get a floater in your face lol
I Still Need to vist said game-space before the update lands in fear that i may missed things events.
& thanks jeff for responing late at night when i‘m asleep
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Posted on 29 March, 2011 at 12:35 pm by spatsnaz
You guys have really talented concept artists. The environment pieces are great.
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Posted on 29 March, 2011 at 10:33 pm by darkpyrano100
This is new but maybe it must be released on playstation home
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Posted on 30 March, 2011 at 12:26 am by wolffrezer
Oh PvP in nova prime you say if thats what you meant by that will we see factions to join also nice update i guess i should get down to the station and gain points for when level cap gose up, it’s free to play so will the apartment be free oh and i’d love it if you bring out a battle ship area out so can walk the corridors maybe a 3rd person shooter mini game if thar possiable with 1.50 killzone event was good but too much like time crisis
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Posted on 1 April, 2011 at 9:17 am by procion
I bought the Officer’s Quarters which at NZ$3.90 was a nice surprise. The area was alittle stark but it’s nice to see SCEE giving us a perspace along with SCEA giving NA the same(I counted over 50 different perspaces available in US Home. Makes my blood boil to think we miss out, esp since may like the Waterfall Terrace would make a perfect clubhouse & many are not third party so why the prob with not releasing them in SCEE? Why constantly hold back on us SCEE?). What made my blood boil yet again was the farce that is the personal hangar. It cost a whole NZ$7.90 and for what? Another empty room to launch NP which can be done anyways for free. Sony is like God, always needs our moulah. To add insult to injury, I went to visit a m8 and he used the Aurora ammo box to get into that extra expensive space without paying for free. NOT happy. I warn you NOT to waste your hard earned money on the hangar.
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