

Pre-orders of Deserts of Kharak also included the Homeworld Remastered Collection for free, while those who already owned the Homeworld Remastered Collection received a 20% discount for their pre-order of Deserts of Kharak. The game also became available for pre-order on Steam on that date. On December 16, 2015, the game was officially announced as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. At the time, Blackbird was developing a ground-based RTS game entitled Hardware: Shipbreakers, which was subsequently renamed Homeworld: Shipbreakers and announced as a prequel to Homeworld. Īfter obtaining the IP rights, Gearbox granted permission for use of the Homeworld IP to Blackbird Interactive, a company formed by members of the original Homeworld development team in 2007.

Following this, they announced that they were remaking both Homeworld and Homeworld 2 in high definition, released on Steam in February 2015 as Homeworld Remastered Collection. Gearbox Software bought the intellectual property rights to the Homeworld franchise during THQ's bankruptcy auction in 2013. The game was released on January 20, 2016, and is a prequel to the 1999 space-based real-time strategy video game Homeworld. Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is a real-time strategy video game developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Software. 2016 video game Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
