Fans of the Homeworld franchise won’t be seeing their new entry coming this year. The long-awaited sequel Home World 2, a sci-fi real-time strategy video game released back in 2003, was supposed to come out in 2022 before its release was pushed to the first half of this year. Now, its developer Blackbird Interactive and Gearbox Publishing have revealed that it is on the way Homeworld 3 the launch date is until February 2024. In their announcement, they said that they want to provide a game that “lives up to the standards set by their predecessors.
He went on to say that in order to fully realize his vision, he needed more time to refine and polish the game. Fan activity on announced on Twitter it’s been good so far, many of them are helping companies take the time to fix it. When asked about the collector’s edition he sold, he said those who bought the box still received it at launch.
We’re moving the launch of Homeworld 3 from the first half of 2023 to February 2024 to give fans something to do. pic.twitter.com/DaCX4eFMm4
– Homeworld (@HomeworldGame) May 25, 2023
Companies too has been sent a larger version of their announcement on Gearbox’s website, where they explained that Blackbird’s move to implement a four-day work week back in 2022 is not the reason the game’s release date has been pushed back. “In fact,” he added, “the team can do more if not more when given extra time.” They didn’t go through any technical difficulties and change the size of the game – it just takes time to create and polish the whole game. For fans who can’t wait to see how the development progresses, he promised to share “more Home World 3 updates later this summer.”