Meanwhile, Gearbox Software has announced its plans for E3 2021 which includes a 30-minute broadcast that could show off the studio's rumored Tiny Tina spin-off game, Wonderlands. Gearbox originally wanted a single dollar for the game that was already "on a solid foundation, funding-wise" and at the time of writing, the current campaign has crossed the $1.5 million mark thanks to 8,414 backers. Homeworld 3 has more or less been in missing in action since its announcement back in 2019 but from the looks of it, fans of the cosmic real-time strategy franchise can finally expect some new. In the case of Homeworld 3 and Gearbox, the acquisition took place after the reservation process but before the investment process."Īs for what the Gearbox acquisition means to the people who backed the Homeworld 3 campaign when it began in 2019, Bailey explained that "backers will receive their goods" as people had already invested in the creation of the game in exchange for the final product. The actual release is yet a long, long way away. We went through the reservations process and then opened up and concluded the investment process. Homeworld 3 is being made by Blackbird Interactive, a studio who were founded by some of the folks who made the original Homeworld at Relic Entertainment then brought the series back with the recent spin-off Homeworld: Deserts Of Kharak. "The difference between those and Homeworld 3/Gearbox is that those reservations were collected in advance of the acquisition. "Those opportunities paid handsomely to investors," Fig CEO Justin Bailey said to. The intellectual property rights to the Homeworld series were purchased from THQ in 2013 by Gearbox, with that company being acquired by Embracer Group in a $1.3 billion deal. Unlike other games such as Double Fine's Psychonauts 2 and InXile Entertainment's Wasteland 3 that used Fig for crowdfunding and then paid out benefits to users after those studios were acquired by Microsoft, backers were never charged upfront for the chance to purchase shares in Homeworld 3.
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