8 Popular Video Games The Industry Doesn’t Make Anymore

1. Arcade Racing Games

For the top spot: Just what the hell happened to Burnout? To Need for Speed? To Ride Racer, Blur, Split/Second or freakin' Auto Modellista?

Like the influx of arcade sports games, so to did the 2000s give us a deluge of incredibly fun, pulse-pounding arcade racing titles that were a blast to play.

The most notable casualty - lost in a sea of developers trying to ape GTA and take every formula open world no matter what - was the divisive Burnout Paradise. Following this it felt as though menu-based Burnout was dead along with traditional Need for Speed, and with Criterion being swallowed up by EA, some remaining devs managed to get Dangerous Driving off the ground, but it's a far cry from the genre returning overall.

2020 saw the brilliant likes of Hotshot Racing and the IMMACULATE Inertial Drift alongside Forza Horizon getting ever-closer to all-out ridiculousness, but when the only movement from bigger studios was a paltry remaster of that same Burnout Paradise, you can't help but wonder where slick arcade racers went.

What happened to doing increasingly eye-popping and memorable things with the genre, like the explosive Hollywood thrills of Split/Second?