Homeworld 3 Gets Dramatic New Trailer

There is much mystery surrounding the announcement of Homeworld 3. It’s been a long time since Homeworld 2’s release way back in September of 2003, but fans have hung their hopes on the exciting prospect of a new game on the way from Blackbird Interactive. Today’ Game Awards pre-show presentation brought us a new look at the mysterious title, in the form of a new trailer.

In the video, we’re greeted by a remixed version of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings,” a piece of music renowned for high-drama appearances in a variety of media. As the music plays, we’re treated to a bevy of different spacecraft, moving both through atmospheric conditions as well as in deep space. There are many beauty shots taken of various ships. However, we can also see battle shots with larger fighters and capital ships crashing into each other in space debris.

Interspersed with the footage are glimpses of a long-haired woman seemingly suspended in some sort of chamber, ably recalling imagery from the earlier games – very possibly an appearance of Karan from the original games.

An accompanying press release reveals that this game was set decades after the originals as a standalone title and is located in a galaxy with long years of success due to the large Hyperspace Gate network. However, those gates have now failed.

“Homeworld 3 is the realization of the vision of what we set out to create in the Homeworld series, with modern technology allowing us to push beyond our wildest dreams of large-scale dynamic space combat packed with emotional sci-fi storytelling,” says Rob Cunningham, CEO of Blackbird Interactive.

It’s not much information to go on, but it is exciting to see the return of such a classic real-time strategy sci-fi franchise. The game is headed to both Steam and Epic Game Store in Q4 of 2022 – the first time we’ve learned of that date.