Release Date Announced for Homeworld 3, Two Decades After Previous Game

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Sci-fi real-time approach game Homeworld 3 will certainly be launched on March 8, 2024, designer Blackbird Interactive and author Gearbox have actually introduced — over two decades after its precursor, Homeworld 2, appeared.

The launch day is simply a little later than the February day established when Homeworld 3 was delayed in very early 2023.

If you’re restless after such a long haul for a brand-new mainline Homeworld game, you can begin playing 72 hours early, on March 5, if you pre-order the Fleet Command or Collector’s Edition of Homeworld 3. Pre-orders are now open.

Homeworld 3 will certainly release on Steam and the Epic Games Store, and it will certainly likewise be available in Standard and Deluxe tastes. The $79.99 Deluxe Edition includes the Year One Pass, which will certainly include growths for the co-op, roguelike War Games setting. The $89.99 Fleet Command Addition includes the very early accessibility plus a soundtrack and some electronic antiques. The $174.99 physical Collector’s Edition includes a lithograph and some ship numbers.

There’s a big degree of expectancy for Homeworld 3 in the computer video gaming neighborhood, and not even if it’s been such a long period of time coming. The initial games, with their hallmark full-3D area fight, were much appreciated yet rarely mimicked.

Blackbird Interactive was developed by Rob Cunningham and Jon Aaron Kambeitz, that made the initial 2 games at Relic Entertainment, and several various other participants of the initial group have actually joined them, so the credibility exists. Blackbird constantly intended to go back to Homeworld, yet civil liberties owner THQ rejected. After THQ failed in 2013, Gearbox gotten Homeworld and dealt with Blackbird to release an offshoot game and a remaster, yet it has actually taken this lengthy to obtain a full-fledged follow up off the ground.

The great information is that it appears to be satisfying. Previewing Homeworld 3 in 2022, Polygon’s Charlie Hall created that “the experience was […] stunning. This is Homeworld the way I remember it, with its signature three-dimensional space combat lighting up the darkness on my computer screen.”

 

Source: Polygon