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Nebulae are nice and black holes are dramatic, but I firmly believe that space battles are at their very coolest when whizzing around supersized ships and megastructures. I am therefore delighted by the newHomeworld 3trailer showing a battle around sprawling technoruins in the long-awaited spaceship strategy sequel. And yes, absolutely it still has those cool Tron engine trails.

That’s nice, that. I do like spaceterrain, spicing up battles with properties like providing cover or masking sensor signals. Plus, it’s cooler than battles in deep void. I’ve been playingChoruslately and am very much enjoying weaving around buildings and diving through enemy carriers.

The makers, Blackbird Interactive (founded by folks who worked on the original Homeworlds at Relic) announced earlier this year that they were joining the ranks of studiosswitching to a four-day working week. Good on ‘em.