The companies have confirmed the contents of their Homeworld 3 Collector's Edition, which includes six model starships, a WW2-style "spotter's guide" to the ships of the game, a keychain and lithograph. Digital contents include a copy of the game, exclusive ship decals and icons, a Year One Pass and a copy of the Homeworld 3 soundtrack by the excellent Paul Ruskay. The Collector's Edition is available to preorder, for those who didn't back the Fig campaign of a couple of years ago.
Blackbird and Gearbox also confirmed that the game would revolve around the adventures of a new mothership, the Khar-Kushan. Unlike the previous two motherships, this one can "flip" from a horizontal to a vertical configuration, something that will be necessary for tight ship maneuvers in asteroid fields and around "megaliths," ancient alien structures that will form a core part of the gameplay in the new title.
Homeworld 3 is actually the fifth game in the series, following on from Homeworld (1999), stand-alone expansion Homeworld: Cataclysm (2000, retitled Emergence for a recent re-release), Homeworld 2 (2003) and prequel Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (2016). Homeworld and Homeworld 2 were re-released as the acclaimed Homeworld Remastered in 2015. The series follows the fortunes of the Kushan people after they discover their dying planet is not their original homeworld, and a wrecked starship in the desert contains technology and information that leads them to their real home, through a series of interstellar wars.
Homeworld 3 is currently slated for release this autumn, with Homeworld Mobile also due for release on iOS and Android before the end of the year. Blackbird's other big space game of the year, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, is due for release on 24 May.
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