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Developer Blackbird Interactive has released a new trailer for its upcoming space-based real-time strategy game Homeworld 3. This time around, the trailer gives us a look at the history of the Homeworld universe, providing a quick history lesson in the process. Check it out below.

Blackbird Interactive and publisher Gearbox revealed 2024 roadmap on Wednesday. In addition to multiple free content drops, the roadmap reveals three paid DLCs that are introducing new factions to the sci-fi RTS.

Gearbox Publishing and Blackbird Interactive released a new cinematic for Homeworld 3 earlier this week, hoping to catch players up on the series’ story ahead of its release in May.

Gearbox Entertainment has been hit with a wave of layoffs, mere hours after the game development company announced its pending acquisition by Take-Two Interactive. After recent rumors that the company was potentially up for sale, it was confirmed on March 27 that Embracer Group will be selling Gearbox for $460 million. This comes after nearly a year of the Swedish media conglomerate divesting itself, through sale or closure, of multiple subsidiaries to increase cash flow.

After delaying the launch of Homeworld 3 by two months to address criticism of the spacefleet shoot-o-strategy game's demo, developers Blackbird Interactive have now laid out what they're changing. Improved controls, tougher ships, more useful formations, better Attack Move command, more HUD options, and more types of War Games mode objectives are among the tweaks and improvements detailed by game director Lance Mueller in a 3000-word blogblast. "This past month, everyone was heads down discussing every post we saw from Steam, social, Reddit, Discord and beyond," he explained. They have plans.

After a long wait, the third installment in the series, aptly titled , is coming soon. The first was released in 1999, followed by in 2003. Both were developed by Relic Entertainment, a strategy game powerhouse with titles like and under its belt. But since then, there's been an interminable wait for .

Blackbird Interactive has delayed the release of Homeworld 3 by about eight weeks from its March 8 release date.

Homeworld 3, the next installment in the legendary Homeworld sci-fi RTS franchise, has been delayed just days after a demo for the game was made public. While carrying the spirit of the series, many found the demo to suffer from several issues and other problems.

Good news, star admirals with decent CPM! Gearbox and Blackbird Interactive's strategy escapade Homeworld 3 has a demo on Steam. It's been live for a few days, actually, but whether due to the bombardment of other Steam Fest goodies or my being led astray by the similar-but-nerdier Nebulous: Fleet Command, I didn't try it till last night. The demo includes a tutorial mission, four maps and the War Games mode, a one-to-three player affair which essentially turns Homeworld into a roguelike - pitching you up against unpredictable opposition while unlocking new fleets and doling out Artifacts that augment your vessels.

UPDATE 11.46pm: With a launch tantalisingly close for developer Blackbird Interactive's oft-delayed Homeworld 3, it's happened again: the studio has announced it'll be pushing back the real-time sci-fi strategy's release once more, this time until 13th May, to «ensure that we're making the final tweaks needed to deliver at the level of quality that we strive for».

Homeworld 3's release date has been pushed back from March 8th to May 13th 2024, in order to build on player feedback to this week's Steam Next Fest War Games demo, which will be available till February 12th, 10am PT or 6pm GMT. The associated joint statement from developers Blackbird Interactive and publishers Gearbox arrived within hours of me posting about said Homeworld 3 demo and saying that while I am fully onboard with many aspects of the new space strategy game, I do have reservations about its controls.

Homeworld 3 will not be released on March 8th as originally planned, Gearbox Publishing has announced. A new release date of May 13th has been given instead, following feedback from players who have played the demo of Homeworld 3. Developer Blackbird Interactive will be taking that feedback to make changes and improvements to the game.

2023 was a good year for MMORPGs. Even without a major new MMO release, we saw plenty of good expansions hit older MMOs. Even with the expansion hoopla, I spent less time playing MMOs in 2023 than in any year since 2004. I just couldn't pull myself away from all of the great single-player and co-op titles that were released this year. Baldur’s Gate 3, a  trip back to Cyberpunk 2077, Forza Motorsport, and several other great games took every minute of gaming I had available.

The end of the year is always a little bit funny in the world of video games. We come to the end of the mad rush of game releases before Christmas, cross our fingers to receive something to play as a gift, and charge up controllers and headphones to prep for some big gaming sessions (hopefully). For the games press, we’re also caught in a strange limbo, looking back on the year that was with everyone handing out Game of the Year awards, but also looking ahead to the big exciting things coming out in the future.

Developer Blackbird Interactive has revealed details on a new game mode coming to Homeworld 3. Titled War Games, the mode is described by the studio as combining aspects of real-time strategy games with roguelikes. Players can take on War Games either solo or in co-op, and get thrown into a series of randomised battles.

Developer Blackbird Interactive has released a new behind-the-scenes video for its upcoming real-time strategy game Homeworld 3. The video features almost 13 minutes of behind-the-scenes, and was shot on location at the studio in Vancouver. Check it out below.

Homeworld 3 will launch on 8th March 2024, developer Blackbird Interactive and publisher Gearbox have now confirmed, two decades after its predecessor.

Homeworld 3 will launch on March 8th 2024, completing a development journey that began with crowdfunding back in 2019. To give some insight into that journey, developers Blackbird are going to release a documentary this December, a clip from which you'll find below.

Previously slated for February 2024, Blackbird Interactive’s Homeworld 3 has been delayed to March 8th, 2024. The space-faring real-time strategy title is coming to PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, retailing for $59.99. Check out the latest behind-the-scenes trailer below, where the development team discusses the gameplay.

Homeworld 3 has now got an official launch date, with Blackbird Interactive and Gearbox Publishing confirming that the game will be released on March 8th, 2024. In addition, there will be an documentary released going behind the scenes to see how Homeworld 3 has been developed. This will be coming at some point in December.

Gearbox Publishing and developer Blackbird Interactive have delayed Homeworld 3 from its previously planned first February 2024 release window to March 8, 2024. It will be available for PC via Steam and Epic Games Store for $59.99.

Blackbird Interactive has revealed the final system requirements for Homeworld 3, and they’re moderate, though Ultra and Ray Tracing requirements are hefty. All PC players will need 40 GB of installation space and a 64-bit version of Windows 10/11. Surprisingly, a solid-state drive isn’t required at all.

Developer Blackbird Interactive has announced that it has laid off more than 40 employees. The layoffs come in light of several of the studio’s upcoming projects getting cancelled. The layoffs came to light thanks to a post on LinkedIn by former technical artist at Blackbird Interactive James Marshall, who revealed that more than 40 people were laid off from the studio. A spokesperson for the studio released a statement, according to IGN, confirming that 41 employees were let go.

Gearbox Publishing and developer Blackbird Interactive have released a new trailer for Homeworld 3 showcasing the cooperative mode “War Games.”

For any RTS fan of the late 90s and early 2000s, Homeworld remains absolutely legendary. At the time it pushed boundaries for 3D graphics in the genre, it came with defining controls that enabled fully 3D play in the zero-G void of space, and it featured sweeping narratives of ancient civilisations, rediscovery and destiny amongst the stars. Let’s just say two decades has been too long of a wait for Homeworld 3.

Set amongst the unnumberable stars, my Interceptors bore down onto my enemy's recon ships. My strikecraft, equipped with a damage-boosting mod, made short work of the enemy craft, lasers tearing through the vacuum of space, finding their homes nestled into the now shattered hulls of my enemy.

Developer Blackbird Interactive and publisher Gearbox have released a new trailer for upcoming space-based real-time strategy game Homeworld 3, this time around focusing on the game’s story. Check it out below.

With Homeworld 3 set for launch in February 2024, Blackbird Interactive are expanding the game’s background and lore with a bunch of new trailers, both showing off the in-game story, and expanding on two key characters.

Gearbox Publishing and developer Blackbird Interactive have released the official story trailer for Homeworld 3 as part of Gamescom 2023: Opening Night Live.

Everyone loves free stuff, right? Free gifts on the front of a magazine, free gifts from your favourite streamer, free gifts in cereal (well, before you couldn’t be trusted not to eat them). Epic Games Store seems to really be a storefront based entirely on this premise with my personal amount of logging in purely made up of adding whatever free games are available to my account. This week sees a stone-cold classic of the RTS genre coming to Epic Games Store for free in the shape of Homeworld Remastered Collection. It’s going to be available for this unbelievable price starting from this coming Thursday, the 27th of July until the 2nd of August.