#hardware shipbreakers

Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak to arrive Jan 20th 2016

Gearbox Software has just announced that Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, their first new completely new game in the franchise since acquiring the rights, will be arriving in the new year on January 20. The game is being developed by Blackbird Interactive who consist of veterans of Relic Entertainment that had previously work on the original Homeworld games as well as Company of Heroes. Previously…

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Shipbreakers now officially confirmed a Homeworld title

HARDWARE: Shipbreakers is being developed by Blackbird Interactive, a company made up of former Homeworld developers.  This fact becomes obvious when watching the above video, which not only features Homeworld-esque title font, but more or less the same visual style, similar thematic elements, music by Paul Ruskay, engine trails on the aircraft, and even that familiar deep 'Mwoo' sound when zooming out.

Details on the game itself are sparse, although it's apparently going to be aiming for an eventual planet-scale maybe persistent-world real-time metagame, or something.  Like I said, details are sparse.

WTF JUST FOUND OUT FIVE MINUTES AGO: So apparently Gearbox had no idea what they were going to do with the Homeworld IP after they acquired it, so now they're giving it to Blackbird.  Guess what this means.

HARDWARE: Shipbreakers is now being re-titled.

Gearbox, current owners of the Homeworld IP, have given the team behind Hardware Shipbreakers, the use of the Homeworld license. 

This is a very big deal.

Blackbird Interactive is a team that is composed of many of the core ex-Relic employees that were responsible for the Homeworld series. They've been quietly working on a game called Hardware Shipbreakers. Shipbreakers is an RTS about scavengers on a desert planet taking apart and fighting over ancient derelict spaceships in the desert.

Everything about this game looked very familiar. Its setting is reminiscent of Kharak, the home of the Kushan race, and the starting point of the game Homeworld. The trailers and art style are an almost exact recreation of the cinematic where the Khar-Toba is discovered in the desert. Artistic motifs such as the three cores and clean angular designs are carried over. The music has the same distinct style. Even the vehicles that found the ship are very similar. Shipbreakers was a Homeworld prequel in everything but name.

But now, with Gearbox's help. It is a Homeworld prequel.

Ladies and Gentlemen. There is a new Homeworld game in the works.