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Homeworld 2 was released 23 years ago today. Pick up Homeworld Remastered Collection (2015) to play this sci-fi classic! Art by Rob Cunningham:

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Kharak is burning… Yeah I’ll never get over the distant comm chatter, fleet formations, and Chris Foss designs. It was a revelation.

HW2 is when they ruined the series. The far jump/short jump distinction makes no sense (and a retcon, in HW1 the mothership core is a new part patterned on Khar Toba's). It also sucked as a game. I played HW2 followed by Cataclysm some time ago, and Cataclysm's mission design is so much better.

Didn't actually pick up the game remasters - my life is in a stage where I'd never make time for a several hundred hour RTS - but I DID pick up the remastered soundtrack albums, because my CDs of the originals were stolen. Great soundtracks. /cont

I ripped them off once for a play I was doing sound design for. Music fit the show, and it was obscure enough where people weren't going to say "That's must 'X' from project 'Y!'"

Man, what a great franchise, and the Remastered duology was great too, as is Deserts of Kharak! Does anyone know what happened to the alleged sequel that was due to be released in 2021 though? (/s)

I was fortune enough to work on the Homeworld Remastered Collection project as Art Producer at Gearbox Software. It was a fantastic project and I’m glad we could contribute to that legacy in a little way