Blackbird Interactive has introduced that its upcoming real-time technique sport Homeworld 3, has been delayed to 2024.
The announcement was made on Twitter final evening (Could 25), the place the developer confirmed that Homeworld 3 will now launch in February 2024, as a substitute of this yr.
“Our major aim is to ship a Homeworld expertise that lives as much as the requirements set by its predecessors and is worthy of this sequence’ unbelievable legacy,” mentioned Blackbird.
We’re shifting the launch of Homeworld 3 from the primary half of 2023 to February 2024 in order that we ship the standard expertise that followers deserve. pic.twitter.com/DaCX4eFMm4
— Homeworld (@HomeworldGame) May 25, 2023
“Homeworld 3 is shaping as much as be precisely that, however with the intention to totally notice that imaginative and prescient we’d like extra time to refine and polish the sport. We deeply admire your ardour and dedication to this sport, and we’re working laborious to get Homeworld 3 to you as quickly as we will.
“We deeply admire your ardour and dedication to this sport, and we’re working laborious to get Homeworld 3 to you as quickly as we will.”
Blackbird clarified in an FAQ (through PCGamer) that the rationale for the delay isn’t as a result of a selected situation however that the group need to take the additional time to dwell as much as the “iconic” requirements of the earlier video games.
“This work takes time, particularly after we are elevating the bar on what gamers will expertise within the Homeworld universe,” the developer defined.
It additionally emphasised that it plans on delivering the guarantees it has already made for the sci-fi sport, saying, “Actually, the group is ready to obtain as a lot if no more when given the extra private time. With the ability to draw inspiration from time spent with household and associates and on private hobbies has fueled numerous the improvements we will’t wait to point out off within the lead as much as launch.”
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