EA put 25 of its old PC games on Steam for the first time on November 5, and the same lineup is on GOG and the EA App. Seven of them are Anniversary Editions rebuilt with quality-of-life fixes and full-motion video pulled from master tapes EA found in its vault. Road Rash: 30th Anniversary Edition is the first digital release of the 1996 PC version. Start on GOG when you want the DRM-free copy; Steam works if that is where the rest of your library already lives.
Seven Anniversary Editions With Master-Tape FMVs
The restored set, per EA’s launch post:
- Road Rash: 30th Anniversary Edition
- Wing Commander: 35th Anniversary Edition
- Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi: 35th Anniversary Edition
- Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger: 30th Anniversary Edition
- Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom: 30th Anniversary Edition
- Wing Commander Prophecy: 30th Anniversary Edition
- Privateer 2: The Darkening: 30th Anniversary Edition
Road Rash gets a relicensed soundtrack (Soundgarden, Paw, Hammerbox, Monster Magnet, Swervedriver, Therapy?), upscaled optional FMVs, up to 60 FPS, native controller support, windowed mode and cloud saves. The Wing Commander and Privateer 2 Anniversary builds bundle community-backed enhancement patches EA integrated, plus restored cinematics from those source masters.
Faithful Ports Cover Ultima Through Theme Hospital
The other 18 titles are straight ports aimed at modern PCs: Wing Commander Privateer, Academy and Armada, Strike Commander, Theme Hospital, Crusader: No Remorse and No Regret, Ultima I through IX, and both Ultima Underworld games. Anniversary Editions list at $9.99. The faithful ports list at $4.99. Steam and GOG are running special pricing from November 5 through November 19 (Road Rash was $4.99 on both when we checked November 6).
Wing Commander Owners on GOG Get the Upgrade Free
If you already own a digital Wing Commander game on GOG or the EA App, EA says the matching Anniversary Edition lands on that same store at no charge. That is the cleanest owned-copy path in this drop: keep the DRM-free library you already paid for, and pick up the restored build without buying it twice. Steam is still the first-time digital home for several of these on that storefront, so this is a rare week where the vault story and the GOG upgrade line up.
The work started in March 2022 when EA Senior Producer Jim Vessella found a campus vault holding almost 20,000 archival assets. The team digitized roughly 2,500 hours of footage before shipping these builds. If you want the combat-racing nostalgia hit, Road Rash is the one that never had a proper PC digital shelf until now. If you want the space-sim stack, start on GOG and let the free Anniversary upgrades fill in.