Relic teases Homeworld 3 development

by Randy Nelson { Nov 24th 2008 at 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.

Tags: homeworld, homeworld-3, relic, thq

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Haggard @ Nov 24th 2008 6:28PM

WANT THIS

wtangofoxtrot @ Nov 24th 2008 6:29PM

holy crap that would be amazing !

benjor0x0r @ Nov 24th 2008 6:29PM

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

JonnyDee @ Nov 24th 2008 6:30PM

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

Thanatos @ Nov 24th 2008 6:33PM

Hopefully it turns out better than HomeWorld 2 did.

Marty @ Nov 24th 2008 6:41PM

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?

WiNG [Life in a Game] @ Nov 24th 2008 7:10PM

That's actually Homeworld 1.

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

Thanatos @ Nov 24th 2008 7:24PM

@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.

LaughingTarget @ Nov 24th 2008 6:42PM

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

BigD145 @ Nov 24th 2008 6:56PM

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

Higg @ Nov 25th 2008 3:07AM

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

WiNG [Life in a Game] @ Nov 24th 2008 7:04PM

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!!!!

Blank-Mage @ Nov 24th 2008 7:12PM

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.

FSK405K @ Nov 24th 2008 10:39PM

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

Robobagins @ Nov 24th 2008 7:26PM

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!

Wumzi @ Nov 24th 2008 7:30PM

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!

Charlie_Six @ Nov 24th 2008 7:50PM

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

RudyHuxtable @ Nov 24th 2008 7:53PM

If you build it, they will cum.

Haggard @ Nov 25th 2008 8:22AM

ewww

RudyHuxtable @ Nov 25th 2008 12:26PM

Too far? Did I go too far?

TheSilentCircus @ Nov 24th 2008 8:06PM

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.

Titanium_Orchid @ Nov 24th 2008 8:26PM

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

chispito @ Nov 24th 2008 10:11PM

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.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Nov 24th 2008 8:34PM

DO WANT

SouthPaw @ Nov 24th 2008 8:40PM

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

WiNG [Life in a Game] @ Nov 24th 2008 8:46PM

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

EclipseCDN @ Nov 24th 2008 9:07PM

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.

FSK405K @ Nov 24th 2008 10:42PM

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.

Erluti @ Nov 25th 2008 8:59AM

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.

WiredKnight @ Nov 25th 2008 3:50PM

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!

Lorem @ Nov 24th 2008 10:26PM

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.

FSK405K @ Nov 24th 2008 10:35PM

Gamegasm!

Daspl @ Nov 24th 2008 11:25PM

Holy Fucking Shit

Jeff @ Nov 24th 2008 11:37PM

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

ogvor @ Nov 24th 2008 11:57PM

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE

kthxbi

Aegis @ Nov 25th 2008 12:01AM

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!

rogue star @ Nov 25th 2008 12:03AM

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.

ahallam @ Nov 25th 2008 12:27AM

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.