Homeworld 3 has been delayed and will now launch in February 2024, Gearbox Software announced on Thursday. The schedule change confirms what fans already suspected, as the sci-fi real-time strategy game was previously slated to launch sometime in the first half of this year.
We’re moving Homeworld 3’s launch from the first half of 2023 to February 2024 to deliver the quality experience fans deserve. pic.twitter.com/DaCX4eFMm4
— Homeworld (@HomeworldGame) May 25, 2023
In a Twitter statement, Gearbox said the delay is to give those fans “the quality experience.” [they] deserve.” The studio added that “we need more time to refine and polish the game.” Home world 3 launches on Windows PC.
Blackbird Interactive, who made the spin-off/prequel Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak for Gearbox in 2016, is developing Home world 3 since 2017.
This creates the second delay Home world 3whose first launch window was 2022. The series dates back to 1999, but has not seen a main series since its 2003 release Home world 2 (although a remastered version of that was launched in 2015).
The series’ dormancy stems from the bankruptcy and liquidation of former publisher THQ 10 years ago; Gearbox’s acquisition of the franchise; a crowdfunding campaign to support the highly anticipated sequel; and then Embracer Group’s acquisition of Gearbox, which suspended that campaign.