Look, I was happy enough that Gearbox was just going to be re-releasing Homeworld so that modern operating systems (and widescreen monitors) could actually play them properly. But that's not what they're doing.
There once was a game called Hardware: Shipbreakers. Made by some ex-Relic developers, it was going to be a free-to-play game. Now that it's got Gearbox money behind it
While Blackbird go changing the letterhead of their strategy game from Hardware: Shipbreakers to Homeworld: Shipbreakers, publishers Gearbox are working on their own games in the franchise, namely the HD remakes of the two main Homeworld games. Let's see how they're getting along.
Did you think PC strategy game Hardware: Shipbreakers looked a lot like Homeworld
Surprising absolutely nobody - I've got money on these being the only releases the series' new
Paul Zakrzewski has done the bulk of the work single-handedly on Void Destroyer, a game that started out as a space combat sim before morphing into a strategy title that, yes, looks a lot like Relic's classic Homeworld. Which is a good thing.
Gearbox today announced that the mysterious highest bidder on Homeworld was actually them.
Last week, the rights to Homeworld, a beloved old RTS series by Relic, went under the hammer as part of an auction
First revealed all the way back in 2011
After the big auction for its top-shelf intellectual property and game studios last month
It's easy to have lost sight of it amongst the more contemporary series flying off to new owners today
Ask anyone who likes strategy video games and spaceships what their favourite title of all time is and, if they don't say Homeworld
PC strategy gods Relic Entertainment look to be moving deeper into the world of free-to-play games, if a number of job descriptions on the company's site are anything to go by.
Yeah, I usually post art from recent games here on Fine Art, but sometimes I like to look back and get a little retrospective. Today will be one of those days, as we're showcasing the work of Rob Cunningham on seminal space strategy game Homeworld.
Over the past ten years, ever since we saw the last of the critically-acclaimed Homeworld series
In the opening moments of 1999's Homeworld, you get to see the end of the world. Watch helplessly as an entire planet, and everybody on it, is burned to a cinder.
Fans of Dawn of War, Company of Heroes and Homeworld take note: developers Relic will be showing off a new real-time strategy game in August.
