With the first game's developer, Kaos Studios, shut down earlier this year, the sequel to Homefront will be handled by a division of Crytek, the makers of Crysis and Far Cry.

Last month, Crysis 2 disappeared from Steam, and the initial assumption was that EA had done it in order to secure an exclusive for the newly-rebranded EA Store, Origin. However, the game was still being sold elsewhere, and EA claimed the removal was not its doing, but Valve's. An explanation for Crysis 2's absence came later from EA's David DeMartini, who stated that Crysis 2 was removed because its DLC was available through Direct2Drive, but not Steam.