When Homeworld first came out, I was hooked! Quite possibly one of the finest games I’ve ever played in my life and have been waiting for a 3rd part of the series… that never happened.

BUT! Gearbox Software had picked up the Intellectual Property rights back in April for $1.35 million– question is, what would they do with it? Nothing? Make part 3? Well now we know and it’s pretty awesome!

See, the developer Blackbird Interactive, which is largely comprised of many of the original guys who worked on the Homeworld series, has been working on a spiritual successor called Hardware: Shipbreakers. Gearbox said “you know what, why don’t we give you guys at Blackbird some money and we can call this ‘Homeworld: Shipbreakers’ instead?” Fuck yes!!

Actually, what CEO Randy Pitchford really said was “Gearbox is not in the best spot to make a sci-fi RTS successor… We’ve become expert at production and that’s where we can help. I mean, we shipped Duke Nukem Forever—we didn’t build it, but we made sure it came out. And that’s a fucking miracle.”

Keep making miracles, guys. Keep making miracles.

About Hardware Homeworld: Shipbreakers

Hunt for riches among a graveyard of derelict starships on the mysterious planet, LM-27. Reclaim precious cargo and adopt exotic technologies from the space-wrecks littered across the desert wasteland. Combat hostile competitors equally desperate for wealth. Survive harsh storms and burning temperatures. Endure the poisonous and grinding dust that wears down man and machine alike. If you survive these, fortune can be your reward. If you can’t, death in the sand will be your lonely fate.

[Source: ArsTechnica]