Relic teases Homeworld 3 development

by Randy Nelson on Nov 24th 2008 6:20PM

This time last year, THQ snapped up the trademark for Relic's space-faring RTS, Homeworld. Now Eurogamer reports that, during a visit to Relic's offices, the dev was (quite badly) attempting to tease that Homeworld 3 is in development without actually saying, "It's in development."

When asked about the possibility of a new Homeworld, Dawn of War II design lead Jonny Ebbert told the site that, "We're really happy the IP has made its way home, and yeah, we're definitely looking at it." Ebbert continued, saying there's "always a chance" that the game is in development at the studio, adding that he is "very, very, very" excited about the idea of revealing it to the world. And ... it's just being looked into? Nice try, guys.

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Tags: homeworld, homeworld-3, PC, relic, thq

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If this turns out to be true I will actually buy a gaming PC again.

WANT THIS

holy crap that would be amazing !

OMFGOMFGOMFG. I'd totally thought they had abandoned this game. Hooray for awesome classics and epic space battles.

Hopefully it turns out better than HomeWorld 2 did.

I'm very interested in this, but is that a screenshot of HW2, or have they just not made much progress on the graphics front?

That's actually Homeworld 1.

2 looks amazing. Hell, if they rereleased 2, it would put some "next gen" games to shame.

@WiNG
Umm no the screenshot is from Homeworld 2 not 1. I think your a little behind or confused, Homeworld 1 came out in 1999, Homeworld 2 came out in 2003, good graphic on both for when they came out, yeah, beyond nextgen, no.

It's probably in the "we have some ideas written down on a napkin from the local diner" stage, but I'm excited.

It had better not be a Sins of a Solar Empire clone. I want 3D movement in my space!!

Considering sins was a homeworld clone... I don't think you should worry.

Finally, can't wait for the Star Wars Mod

Joystiq I cannot express you just made my night.

People say that a lot but I mean it. If this is true, INCREDIBLE!

I was a huge fan of 1 and 2 and it's a damn shame more people haven't played these epic, gorgeous games.

Homeworld ftmfw!!!!

Jeezy Creezy, I had no idea this ip had such a die-hard fanbase. I'll have to pick it up next time around Gamestop.

All 10 of us who are in love with the series are frantically expressing our glee on this post.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG Really? No way! OH. MY. GOD. Don't you be lying to me folks. No shifty tricks, ya hear me? I cannot express just how much my gaming life has been defined by Homeworld and Relic. Hell Relic got me into W4k through Dawn of War just because they were the guys that made Homeworld. Oh please be true. I so want a Homeworld3. I've been wanting a HW3 since they announced HW2. I need it. I need it BAD. I don't care where they are in development as long as it's being worked on! HOMEWORLD 3!

OMGOMGOMGOMG!

Homeworld 1 is my all time favorite game. I played that single played campaign so many times that I almost know it by heart, even after so many years.

Homeworld Cataclysm took the game engine from the first game, added a wicked campaign where you play the underdog kiith Somtaaw, that went from a small space based mining kiith to the super power on the homeworld Hiigara.

Homeworld 2, while not as epic in scope as the first two games (IMHO), was just as good gameplay wise.

And now there's talk of a number 3!

Me so happy!

If they make this in the style of Battlestations Midway, with RTS and Action Simulator aspects blended together, sign me up.

If you build it, they will cum.

ewww

Too far? Did I go too far?

holy shit!!!!!! i love this game, and in celebration of this news i am going to reinstall homeworld 1 on this computer and find my strategy guide that came with it. I never did beat it just played a billion games online and stuff.

The first Home World kicked my ass. Its one of the only games I regret not finishing. I still have the CD and everything!

I got the the mission where all the enemy ships are in a sphere around whatever your ultimate target is, maybe two or three missions from the end. I never did finish it either, so I ended up just youtubing the final sequence (with Yes song) to see how the story ends.

DO WANT

They need to work with Microsoft to get to license the Halo IP for use with the Homeworld engine

Well, considering there is a full Star Wars campaign using the HW2 engine that's unlicensed, I'd say the modders have it covered.

Homeworld 1 was my all time favorite game. The haunting soundtrack, the excellent continuity from mission to mission, the utter confussion and panic that the game could instill in you when it threw you into unpredictable situations.

To this day, I've never played a game that made me care about my units like homeworld 1. The challenge of the game was pretty high too -- but not in a bad way - these two things combined kind of made all RTS' feel "cheap" to me after -- like I don't need to care about all these little dots moving around. But in homeworld...every one of those dots really, really mattered and because of the difficulty there was a good chance of those ships being nocked out if you weren't paying attention. I'm stoked.

Aye. Homeworld was the first game whose story blew me away. Not System Shock, not Half-Life...Homeworld. The cutscenes were so alien from anything I had seen (Tetsuo...anyone?) yet so beautiful and emotional.

Yeah, I still tell people Homeworld was the best RTS ever made and everyone is like "What's that?"
I never got to see the end of the game, because I was so BAD at it. But each cutscene made me miss this fictional alien home more.
My best memory of the game is also displays my ineptitude:
I was playing online. I was totally excited because I had just built my first frigate. Then it says, "Hyperspace signature detected" and 50 hyperspace gates opened around my base and frigates came through. It was the most epic thing I had ever seen in a video game, too bad it was my swift death.

As amazing as both games were (favorite RTS series ever), the AI in the second one was in fact kinda cheap. Not in their tactics or balancing, but the game would look at what kind of ships you ended the previous mission with, and have the enemy start out the next mission with ships that are strong against them.

I was pretty bad at it too, but I eventually finished it like two years ago.

Bring Sajuuk to bear!

People who have not played any games in the series have missed out on one of the greatest RTS in history. Amazing narrative and score in both games, something most RTS lack.

People are certainly missing the boat if they pass up this title. I would compare HW's hidden gem like nature to SotC.

Gamegasm!

Holy Fucking Shit

Wow, check out that SIM card poking out of that mothership. Who knew that technology would stick around that long?

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

kthxbi

capture corvettes in the sphere mission ftw. it must have taken me hours to capture enough of those ships baiting and luring. that was the one thing I really missed doing in the second two installments.

DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT! DO WANT!

OMG, so looking forward to this one. Homeworld was the game that totally blew me away on my friend's Geforce 256.

Gotta be one of the best series ever.. Certainly, Relic has done a good job of proving they can put out a quality product.

This'll be on my list sometime after Starcraft 2 and DoW 2, assuming I ever get tired of Fallout.

Come on. Didn't you all see this coming? You don't buy a popular IP and NOT make a game for it.....

DEAR FUCKING GOD YES!!!

I just got a nerd boner.

gimmegimmegimmegimmegimmegimme

Is it just me or am i the only one that liked the ambient music from the HW series?

absolutely agree..the music was fantastic, especially the one song when your homeworld gets blown to smithereens as they would say. I forget the name but I'm sure someone will know it. I think it was also in "Apocalypse Now".

The song is Barber - Agnes Dei the vocal version of Adagio for strings.

wow, this would be some great news. I must admit, I loved and played the heck out of HW1 but not HW2. I'll probably pick up HW2 on GoG if it ever gets there..

This make Tez happysmile.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

Oh god please be true! And please, don't mess it up! (Even though that's hard to do with such a poignant game.) No other game has managed to top my list of favourites.

Bring Sajuuk to bear? Homeworld2 was good but man, that was the corniest line.

Bring Sajuuk some beer!
Bring Sajuuk some beer!
Bring Sajuuk some beer!

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