{"id":57996,"date":"2013-09-02T18:32:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=57996"},"modified":"2013-09-02T18:34:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T16:34:39","slug":"homeworld-successor-gets-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/57996-homeworld-successor-gets-official","title":{"rendered":"Homeworld successor gets official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited spiritual successor to Homeworld has become a true follow-up, as Gearbox has invested in that very project, Hardware: Shipbreakers, renaming it to Homeworld: Shipbreakers after Gearbox picked up the Homeworld IP.<\/p>\n<p>The game is an RTS being developed by Blackbird Interactive, which is comprised of former Relic developers who worked on the original Homeworld games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These guys had a project that they had already started talking about right around the time that we were going through the acquisition process,&#8221; said Gearbox\u2019s Randy Pitchford about Blackbird\u2019s game, then known as Hardware: Shipbreakders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These guys were making a Homeworld game, but they didn&#8217;t have Homeworld. I&#8217;m also not sure we&#8217;re the best people in the world to do it. We haven&#8217;t made RTS games before. We love the property and we want great things to happen, but it&#8217;s not our property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These guys were going to fight that fight without Homeworld. We hadn&#8217;t even finished the acquisition process when we first started talking,&#8221; added Pitchford.<\/p>\n<p>Homeworld: Shipbreakers will now be a prequel to the previous Homeworld titles, with no release date currently scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0kqNp1fZ9xQ\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamesindustry.biz<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><b>More gaming news:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57830-nintendo-wii-us-upcoming-games.html\">Nintendo Wii U\u2019s upcoming games<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/57874-remote-downloading-confirmed-for-xbox-one.html\">Remote downloading confirmed for Xbox One<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57867-diablo-3-pc-to-console-conversion-challenges.html\">Diablo 3 PC-to-console conversion challenges<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57878-kevin-spacey-music-movies-series-must-learn-from-games.html\">Kevin Spacey: Music, movies, series must learn from games<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gearbox step in to help Homeworld spiritual successor to become official prequel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":57998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,11146,1525,11145,11142,11143,11144,4731],"class_list":["post-57996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-blackbird-interactive","tag-gearbox","tag-hardware-shipbreakers","tag-homeworld","tag-homeworld-3","tag-homeworld-shipbreakers","tag-randy-pitchford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57997,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57996\/revisions\/57997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}