Homeworld, a space strategy game that is almost perfect, was just the first of three releases in the series around the turn of the millennium. The first two games have been remastered and re-released for a while now, but the third and I think best—Homeworld: Cataclysm—has long been assumed lost. Until now.

Blackbird Interactive, developers of the excellent Deserts of Kharak, have teamed up with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create an interactive tour of a concept Mars base.

Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak isn’t just a great game, it’s a gorgeous one to boot. Those carriers, those tanks...but the best unit of all is probably your Baserunner, which has been recreated here perfectly by a fan.

In 2007, Rob Cunningham (of Homeworld fame) formed a brand new studio called Blackbird Interactive. By 2009, work had begun on an ambitious new strategy game strongly inspired by Homeworld’s art design and setting. In 2013, everyone working there was laid off.

“It’s Homeworld, but with sand” was my first thought when I saw Deserts of Kharak, a brand new prequel set in the same universe as Relic’s classic space strategy games. After actually playing it, that’s...about the gist of it. Homeworld, but with sand.

Well, this is a surprise. Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak—a game we heard nothing about for years until it broke cover in October—is coming out soon. Very soon.

Shipbreakers, the first new game in the Homeworld series since the year 2000, has barely been seen since it was first unveiled back in 2011. So it’s both neat—and a little surprising—to finally see some footage of the project.

The Vaygr Battlecruiser, the super capital ship from the classic strategy game Homeworld now has an amazing LEGO version, thanks to One More Brick’s Tim Schwalfenberg.

LEGO builder Tim Schwalfenberg overkilled it again with a giant, amazing-looking fleet of blocky spaceships.

My involvement with Homeworld Remastered can be distilled down to 1.63 GB of data, containing 7,679 files in 1,156 folders.

Homeworld spent 12 long years in the wilderness. During that time, few scenes kept the series' spirit alive better than LEGO builders, who ceaselessly constructed tributes to its iconic ship designs.

In honour of Homeworld Remastered's release — and the game's enduring style — artist Matt Frith put together this homage to Homeworld 2. Suddenly, I want to play a 2D Homeworld, real bad.

Playing through Homeworld again after all these years is weird.

Relic's space strategy game Homeworld, one of the all-time greats, is getting a long-overdue remake so that it runs properly on modern PCs. Which means aside from prettier spaceships and asteroids, we're also getting prettier cutscenes.