20 Game Anniversaries Coming In 2026 That'll Age You Mercilessly
Prepare to feel crusty, withered and spent, like Dorian Gray facing his portrait.
2026 is well and truly underway, and the old adage rings true: time waits for no man. Already the year has seen the release of a cavalcade of games across all platforms, with plenty more to come. It's not forward we look today, however, but back. Because while it may only seem like yesterday you opened your SNES on Christmas, bought your first Xbox, or buried your Wii at the back of the cupboard so your friends wouldn't see your ugly little Mii, many gaming years have passed, and a few of your favourite titles are getting long in the tooth.
Yes, this year is one of many anniversaries - monumental milestones reached in the lives of popular games. And our personal incredulity at the time passing won't make it otherwise. Consider: how long has it really been since you and your mates went head to head on Burnout Revenge; since you caught your first Pokémon outside Pallet Town; or since you button-mashed your way to a win on Tekken 2?
And all of this can only leave you asking, how old are these games? before you're forced to wonder just how old you are, and how many years exactly you've wasted screaming at children online while they noob tube you into oblivion...
20. Titanfall 2 Turns 10
Respawn Entertainment/EA’s first-person shooter Titanfall 2 was quick off the mark, following just two short years after the first game’s release, and this time going out on both the big eighth gen consoles (not just Xbox One). And what a difference a year or two makes.
2 takes us into action as Frontier Militia-man Jack Cooper and his dead mentor’s Titan BT-7274, with a new, linear single-player campaign that features a quest to prevent the Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation from using a superweapon to eliminate not just the Militia’s base but the entire planet it resides on. A big step up from its predecessor in story (which was told entirely through multiplayer matches), graphics and capabilities, it offers mad-cap action, impeccable gun play and movement mechanics (yep: parkour, parkour!), and is one of the hottest current games out there…
Except it’s not.
Titanfall 2 arrived an entire decade ago. That’s the same time gap between the release of Revenge of the Sith and The Force Awakens. And during that period? Well, Titanfall hasn’t really gotten any better than this, because the studio moved onto parallel battle royale game Apex Legends, which while fun just doesn’t compare. So don’t worry about cracking out #2 again – it still is the best thing going.