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Gearbox Software acquires Homeworld IP

Gearbox Software has prevailed as the highest bidder in the acquisition of the Homeworld franchise from THQ. Brian Martel, Gearbox Software's Chief Creative Officer, has great love and respect for Relic's brilliant, fun and innovative game and personally spearheaded the acquisition.

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majiebeast4782d ago (Edited 4782d ago )

I do not know how to feel about this news. I never expected Gearbox to even make a bid on it wouldve rather seen a RTS dev pick it up.

Randy used SEGA's Aliens dev budget to buy this, the puzzle is coming together people J/K.

@Donnie

They only did 2 of the expansions opposing force and blueshift and a few ports.

LordOfAdmirals4782d ago

Whats to say gearbox wont outsource this and take some profits from it. Homeworld will be fine.

Im just glad the ip has new life. I have been waiting for almoat a decade!!

HIGARRA...OUR HOME

NYC_Gamer4782d ago

I'm upset because wanted SEGA to grab the franchise

metsgaming4782d ago

Well segas money was used, so almost, right :-(

Donnieboi4782d ago (Edited 4782d ago )

My favorite RTS franchise of all time, is bought by the creators of Borderlands, Brothers in Arms, Half Life [edit: only did the expansions], Borderlands 2?

But then again they also made Duke Nukem Forever.

I don't know what to think...

EDIT: @Majibeast: Yeah, they only did the Half Life expansions, not even the real game. Oh boy, this is a strange marriage.

majiebeast4782d ago (Edited 4782d ago )

Im just affraid they are gonna turn it into a fps because according to industry experts, FPS is the best cashcow and gearbopx has never made a RTS. Right now i can hardly think of a worse outcome.

Incoming Homeworld:Colonial Marines with the superior wiiU version, before it gets canned

Other 2 bids were apparently from Paradox interactive(Magicka and war of the roses) and stardock(Sins of a solar empire)

Moncole4782d ago

It will be an FPS with bad memes.

admiralvic4782d ago

Eh, didn't Gearbox only work on the console version of Half Life? I mean they worked on it, but that hardly means they really did much past porting.

Also GB did not make DNK, 3D realms and Triptych Games did for the most part. Similar to how Captain Scarlett and Hammerlock DLC were done by them too. Quite similar to how Gearbox "made" Aliens, though they just out sourced it.

In either case, I think this is awful news. Gearbox might have done some good games, but their recent track record is pretty poor.

Outsourced BL 2 DLC.
Charged for the level cap increase.
Constantly contradicting what they say in interviews / statements.
Taking forever to patch issues.
Selling another Vault Chest ($100) without any worthwhile items.
Shift being nothing more than a gold key source.
Everything with Aliens seems to be problematic.
etc

barb_wire4782d ago

@Donnie

Gearbox also ported 'Half-Life' (the full game too) on the PS2, even had a co-op mode in it.

Dark5tar14782d ago

I REALLY don't know how to react to this. Good for Gearbox, I guess??

zme-ul4782d ago

oh god .. nooooooooooooo!
someone slap me and tell me it's a bad dream, please

GearBox dever did a RTS in their entire existence
so long HomeWorld :(

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai27d ago (Edited 27d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio26d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing26d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9226d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit26d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing26d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9226d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."