Trivia
In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/2000) Homeworld received a special award as "Most Original Game in 1999".
The official Sierra game servers were shut down on 1st November 2008.
Contributed by
Sciere 
(118069) on Oct 10, 2008.
On September 26 2003, RelicThe Homeworld source code and accompanying documentation was released by Relic on September 26, 2003. It has been stripped of code not owned by Relic Entertainment (including but not limited to the Bink SDK). You can download it from here
Contributed by
DarkDante (3731) on Nov 10, 2005.
Actually, the Tannhauser Gate reference on the movie Soldier is a tribute to the dying words of replicant Roy Batty, on Blade Runner:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
It looks like sci-fi creators just love this fictional location!
The game contains a reference to the movie Soldier. After playing past mission 7, look at your autosaves. Some of them will have a prefix of "Tenhauser Gate," which is a fictional location in the movie.
Contributed by
Maw (827) on Sep 26, 2005.
Homeworld was ranked # 46 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.
Contributed by
PCGamer77 (3025) on Mar 19, 2005.
On February 21, 2004, Relic released the full source code and documentation of Homeworld. Previously, you had to be a registered member on the Relic Developer Network to download it.
Contributed by
Sciere (118069) on Feb 25, 2004.
If you take "The Ladder" audio cd by Yes in your Mac/PC, you'll find a Homeworld trailer starts from autorun.
Contributed by
Santa (847) on Nov 03, 2003.
Homeworld has won the following awards:
1999 Game of the Year, PC Gamer
1999 Strategy Game of the Year, Computer Gaming World
1999 Strategy Game of the Year, CNET GameCenter
Editors Choice Award, Maximum 3D
Best Music of 1999, Gamespot
1999 Game of the Year, Well Rounded Entertainment
Award for Excellence, Wargamer
Best of the Best, Imaginary Life
Players Choice Award, GameBoyz
1999 Strategy Game of the Year, GameSpy
Top 5 '99 Strategy Games, Gamepower
'99 Must Have, Gonegold
Best Strategy Game, PC Zone Award
Silver Award, I.D. Magazine's 2000 Interactive Media Design
Director Alex Garden once said in an interview with the german mag PC Player: "I'm tempted to say "John Romero's hair" - but he wouldn't like it"! The question was: "What would you erase in the computergames history?"....
Contributed by
tarion (137) on Jul 10, 2003.
When asked, The development team at relic said the game will feature 5 different races: Taiidan,Kushan,Turanic Raiders, Kadeshi, and Tmat. In the final version the T-mat was abscant. Although the modders community have found a refference to some of their ships in the source, Relic never released more info about them. The T-mat are lost in the Relic development lounge.
The British rock band YES approached Alex Garden to have their coming song put into an idea for the game. They both came into an agreement liking the idea of how Homeworld is pretty down to reality ('we're all finding a way home') and for this specially this game, YES produced the song 'Homeworld / The Ladder' which was the newest single of 1999 and the opening song for their album 'The Ladder'.
