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HOMEWORLD

REINSTALL OLD GAMES, NEW PERSPECTIVES

NEED TO KNOW

RELEASE 1999 & 2015

PUBLISHER Sierra Studios

DEVELOPER Relic Entertainment

LINK homeworldremastered.com

As the release of Homeworld 3 nears, the original game remains an enigma. It’s not directly available on Steam, or even GOG. To play it as it was you need the original discs and a PC that can accept them, and this means it hasn’t had any official updates to allow it to run on modern machines. Unless you’re one of those weirdos from the Hardware section of this magazine who keeps a 1999-spec PC in a special room with The Matrix and Red Hot Chili Peppers posters on the walls, there’s a good chance you’re not going to be able to play it.

Unless, of course, you install the remastered edition, which came out in 2015 and so practically counts as retro itself. That’s what I’m reinstalling here, as my copy of the original disappeared years ago along with my Matrix posters. You can play the ‘classic’ version of the game through the

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