EA has put 25 lightly remastered titles from its 1990s catalog up for sale on Steam and GOG, including nearly every Wing Commander and Ultima game, plus Road Rash, Theme Hospital, Strike Commander and the Crusader series. EA producer Jim Vessella detailed in a blog post how the Wing Commander, Privateer 2, and Road Rash remasters originated from a project cataloging an unsorted archive of old physical media at EA's Redwood Shores campus.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-11-06
GOG business development manager Marcin Paczynski told GamesRadar+ he wants to let customers order physical copies of games directly from their GOG library. He acknowledged the company would need to solve inventory and shipping logistics, plus secure additional approvals from publishers, before this could happen. No format or timeline has been announced, and Paczynski framed the idea as a goal rather than a confirmed product.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-01
BioWare's 2002 RPG Neverwinter Nights, built around a multiplayer-focused design and an included modding toolset, continues to attract an active, tight-knit player base over 20 years after release. The game was critically acclaimed and sold well at launch but is less commonly cited among BioWare's most celebrated titles like Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect. GOG.com has made a DRM-free version available as part of a curated catalog partnership with Ars Technica.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-17
GOG expanded its Preservation Program with five classic titles—Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, and Myst—each paired with interactive 3D box scans in GLB format. Through a new partnership with Big Box Collection, GOG is also offering printable, foldable templates so users can assemble physical replicas of the original packaging at home.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-10
GOG has launched a 'Printable Big Box' collection offering downloadable 3D models and print-ready templates of retro PC game packaging for five titles: Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, Myst, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Owners can download files in GLB, PDF, SVG, and Illustrator formats to build their own foldable box replicas, made possible through a partnership with collector Benjamin Wimmer's Big Box Collection archive.
hardware.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-09
GOG has launched a 'Printable Big Box' collection offering downloadable 3D models and print-ready templates recreating classic big-box packaging for five titles: Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, Myst, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Owners of these games can grab a ZIP file with an animated GLB 3D model and flat templates in PDF, SVG, and Illustrator formats to build their own papercraft replicas.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-08
After five years of development, Pistol Shrimp Games has launched a free public demo of Free Stars: Children of Infinity, the sequel to The Ur-Quan Masters made by that game's original creators. The demo focuses solely on the melee combat mode, letting players choose from 38 ships—including nearly all classic Ur-Quan Masters vessels plus new additions—for head-to-head arcade battles. It's available now on Steam and GOG for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with console versions still to come.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-08
A new open-source project called OpenTIE reimplements LucasArts' Star Wars: TIE Fighter so it runs natively on Windows, macOS and Linux. Rather than including game assets itself, it requires players to own the original 1995 Collector's CD-ROM or 1998 Windows release, and lets users mix elements from both, such as pairing 1998 flight visuals with the 1995 adaptive iMUSE soundtrack. A companion project, OpenXWA, similarly ports X-Wing Alliance.
github.com
· 2026-08-27
Ubisoft apologized after shipping a digital release of Heroes of Might and Magic III and its expansions that contained no actual game data, just a 23.4-kilobyte file that produced an error on launch. The mistake sparked a wave of negative Steam reviews before Ubisoft issued a fix, which Engadget confirmed now runs properly.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-27
CD Projekt Red announced a remastered version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, arriving September 29th with upgraded visuals, revamped combat, a reworked skill tree, and both expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, included. The upgrade will be free for existing owners on GOG, Steam, Epic Games Store, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, and the remaster will also bring the game to Nintendo Switch 2 for the first time.
theverge.com
· 2026-08-25
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