HOMEWORLD NAMED 1999 GAME OF THE YEAR
#1 Gaming Publication Honors Relic Entertainment with Industry's Most Desired Award

BELLEVUE, WA (February 7, 2000) - Homeworld®, the groundbreaking, real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment™ and published by Sierra Studios™, was granted the most coveted award in the gaming industry. Top selling gaming magazine, PC Gamer, named this debut title "Game of the Year" for 1999.

"It did not take much deliberation for the PC Gamer team to unanimously arrive at the decision to give Homeworld our Game of the Year award for 1999," said Editor-in-Chief at PC Gamer, Gary Whitta. "So rarely does a computer game take such great strides to forward innovation while maintaining stellar standards of playability. Add to that the amazing achievements in graphics, music and art direction and you have a game that knocks the ball out of the park in virtually every department, and a more than worthy Game of the Year. Congratulations to Relic Entertainment and Sierra Studios for re-setting the bar for others to follow."

"This is simply the most incredible thing that we could ever have imagined," said Alex Garden, CEO of Relic Entertainment. "Finally we have proof that Homeworld has lived up to our expectations, and we really don't know what to say. Really."

Homeworld has been noted as the breakthrough title that will reshape the entire real-time strategy genre. Named E3.Net's Game Critics' Award for "Best Strategy Game" two years in a row, this blockbuster hit also just received Computer Gaming World's "Strategy Game of the Year," for 1999. It has been praised for its impressive graphics, challenging gameplay, storyline, and even its soundtrack, the feature song of which was written and performed by legendary rock band, YES.

Taking the RTS genre to new levels, Homeworld allows players to command a massive starfleet on an epic journey to the heart of the galaxy. Homeworld is a revolutionary step in gameplay and technology, offering 16 missions and two races in cinematic quality 3D environments, along with eight-person online multiplayer gaming with technologies provided by the WON.net™ Internet gaming site. Homeworld is the premier release from Vancouver, B.C.-based Relic Entertainment. More information about the game can be found at the following URL: www.homeworld.net.

Founded in May of 1997, Relic Entertainment designs and develops electronic entertainment. Relic worked with Sierra Studios on the production of Homeworld, a real-time strategy game for Windows 95/98 PC CD ROM.

Sierra On-Line, Inc. http://www.sierra.com/ is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra is a division of Havas Interactive, a global leader in interactive content, and is one of the world's largest publishers of education, entertainment and home productivity software. Its divisions, Blizzard®, Coktel, Knowledge Adventure®, Sierra™ and WON.net™ are famous for releasing critically acclaimed and award winning titles. Havas has operations in the US and in Europe and is a subsidiary of the French publishing house Havas, part of Vivendi Communications.