EA Officially Brings Back 25 PC Classics With Huge Sale

EA has released 25 restored classic PC games on Steam and GOG, including Wing Commander, Ultima and Theme Hospital. The project gives players access to older games with improved presentation, but its launch has drawn a mixed response amid anger over EA’s recent closure of BioWare.

Seven games are full remasters, including the Wing Commander titles, Road Rash and Privateer 2: The Darkening; the other 18 were already available on GOG and are new to Steam. Producer Jim Vessella said a team found nearly 20,000 archival media assets at EA’s Redwood Shores campus in 2022 and used original Wing Commander footage for higher-resolution transfers. The releases add features such as 60 frames per second support, though some players report controller problems. A petition calling for BioWare’s revival and its in-progress Mass Effect project has passed 300,000 signatures.