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If you’re like me, you don’t know much about Homeworld and Homeworld 2. You’ve probably heard someone mention them before. You might even know that they’re critically-acclaimed strategy games from the turn of the century. But that’s probably it.

Gearbox wants to change all that with the Homeworld Remastered Collection, which is scheduled for release on February 25. In this new trailer, the publisher wants to give gamers a look at the improved graphics, audio, and visual effects found in the Remastered Collection. A short primer on the story is also included for those of us who missed them the first time around.

And for gamers who are looking to relive the Homeworld experience, the Homeworld Remastered Collection will include “Classic” versions of both games, perfectly recreating how they looked and played when they were originally released in 1999 and 2003.

Bidding in the second THQ auction concluded last week and most of the publisher’s remaining intellectual property will find new homes soon. One such property is the real-time strategy series Homeworld, which has been acquired by Gearbox Software.

In the announcement, Gearbox revealed that the Homeworld series is a favorite of Brian Martel, the company’s Chief Creative Officer. Plans for the future of the franchise are still up in the air, but Martel has promised that Gearbox is already in the process of making Homeworld and Homeworld 2 available on leading digital platforms soon.

The company is also actively recruiting new talent to work on their latest acquisition, closing the press release with this news: “[P]lease try to get our attention if you have capability and interest to join the effort in developing or enabling Homeworld’s future.”