Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Today, I'm joined by Inverse.com's Rowan Kaiser.

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We also welcome back our friend Fraser 7 out of 10 Brown.

Finally, we welcome back our friend, freelance writer, T.J. Hafer.

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So today we're going to be talking about Homeworld Deserts

of Karak, the new real-time strategy game from Blackbird Interactive, that is a prequel of sorts

to the original homeworld games from Relic. But before we dive into Deserts of Karak,

we should talk a little bit about the original games

because, you know,

speaking personally,

when I heard about this game,

I was a little hopeful,

but mostly really skeptical.

And when Fraser brought it up

actually as a game

that was one of his most anticipated

for this new year,

I was even more skeptical because I just kind of felt

like taking home world out of space and putting it on a desert planet and then making it

about tanks and the like just seemed almost sacrilegious, like a travesty.

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