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Epic Games – Homeworld Remastered Collection Free between 27th July 27th and 3rd August

This is an amazing free giveaway, the Homeworld Remastered Collection includes:

  • Homeworld Remastered Edition
  • Homeworld 2 Remastered Edition

Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation. Utilize advanced research to construct ships ranging from light fighters to huge carriers and everything in between.

The Homeworld games have been painstakingly re-mastered with key members of the original development team and taking critical influence and assistance from the passionate fan community. The Homeworld Remastered Collection introduces Relic’s acclaimed space strategy games Homeworld and Homeworld 2 to modern players and operating systems using the newest sophisticated graphics rendering technology, plus a fully remastered score and new, high fidelity voice recordings by the original actors.

Key Features:

  • Build and battle with more than 100 space ships
  • Updated high-res textures and models
  • New graphical effects
  • Support for HD, UHD, and 4K resolutions
  • New audio mix using original source effects and music
  • Cinematic scenes recreated in beautiful high fidelity by original artists
  • Mod support and mod tools

Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, SBS 2011 RTM or SP1 – You may experience a Stop Error 0x0000003B when you run certain games or applications

The Stop Error may look similar to the example below

Stop 0x0000003B (c0000094, fffff8800ff22e54, fffff880098897f0, 0)
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION

The error occurs because the D3D9 runtime cannot validate rectangle values that are passed by the game or application.

A hotfix is available from Microsoft KB2584454 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2584454