We’ve never seen a video-game calendar quite like 2021
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Nintendo, Amplitude Studios, Bethesda and Sony Interactive Entertainment . The back half of the year, from September onward, is a wasteland. Yes, there will be some release-date announcements at whatever E3 facsimile we get in June, and a couple indie studios will inevitably blindside us and shoot up the Steam charts throughout the warmer months, but the broader horizon is downright barren.
Honestly, all of this disarray has been kinda freeing as a gamer. In seasons past, a list like this would be filled out with auto-includes from the most powerful companies in the industry. But we don’t have a representative from Ubisoft or EA on the docket, and the only Activision entry belongs to a 17-year-old MMO that’s repackaging a 14-year-old expansion.
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic In 2019, Blizzard re-released the original World of Warcraft — exactly as it was in its 2004 incarnation with no cumbersome expansions weighing it down — to anyone who had a subscription. They called it World of Warcraft: Classic, and thanks to a blend of wistfulness and a simmering dissatisfaction with the modern game, a whole commonwealth of players returned to capture the magic they left behind in the Bush years.
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