Wanna feel old? Warcraft is 30 years old, Half-Life 2 is 20 years old, and Dragon Age: Inquisition is 10 years old as of this month

GamesWanna feel old? Warcraft is 30 years old, Half-Life 2 is 20 years old, and Dragon Age: Inquisition is 10 years old as of this monthWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.(Image credit: Valve)We’re up to our necks in notable videogame birthdays this month.The original 1994 Warcraft RTS turns 30 years old on November 15, and then a week later 2004’s World of Warcraft turns 20. Half-Life 2 also came out in 2004 and turns 20 this month, as do Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, EverQuest 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (which famously released on the same day as Half-Life 2… oops).What a month November 2004 was, eh? November 2014 wasn’t quite so stacked, but it did contain Dragon Age: Inquisition, making that game 10 years old as of November 18. Since it gotDragon Age: The Veilguardout in October, we can’t quite say that BioWare made us wait a decade for a new game in the series.Happy birthday, videogames! Here’s a list of some of the most notable games celebrating milestones this month, including console games…10thCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare -November 4, 2014Five Nights at Freddy’s 2- November 10, 2014Assassin’s Creed Unity (and AC: Rogue)- November 11, 2014World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor- November 13, 2014Far Cry 4 -November 18, 2014LittleBigPlanet 3-November 18, 2014Dragon Age: Inquisition- November 18, 201420thCounter-Strike: Source- November 1, 2004 (officially)Killzone- November 2, 2004Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal- November 3, 2004EverQuest 2- November 8, 2004Jak 3- November 9, 2004Halo 2 -November 9, 2004Need for Speed: Underground 2- November 9, 2004Metroid Prime 2: Echoes -November 14, 2004Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines- November 16, 2004Half-Life 2- November 16, 2004Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - November 17, 2004Sid Meier’s Pirates!- November 22, 2004World of Warcraft- November 23, 2004Dragon Quest 8- November 27, 2004 (Japan)Prince of Persia: Warrior Within- November 30, 200430thWarcraft: Orcs & Humans- November 15, 1994Donkey Kong Country- November 21, 1994King’s Quest 7: The Princeless Bride- November 22, 1994We’re preparing a platter of retrospective coverage for some of these big November anniversaries, but for now I only wanted to comment on the inexorable passage of time. Warcraft being 30 is fine—the ’90s feel sufficiently long ago that I can accept that—but the existence of 20-year-olds who’ve never known a world without Steam is a medium-power liver punch.If you believe physicist Carlo Rovelli, there is no fundamental variable in the universe that can be called “time,” and it’s actually an emergent property of our particular and blurred perspective on the quantum interactions that make up reality. But that doesn’t make it hit any less hard when he quotes the opera Der Rosenkavalier inThe Order of Time. From the book’s English translation:“Everything slips through our fingers. All that we seek to hold on to dissolves. Everything vanishes, like mist and dreams. Time is a strange thing. When we don’t need it, it is nothing. Then, suddenly, there is nothing else. It is everywhere around us. Also within us. It seeps into our faces."(Sorry, but I did ask in the headline if you wanted to feel old.)More about gamesToday’s Wordle answer for Sunday, January 12Watching an all-romances speedrun of the legendarily janky Fallout: New Vegas is a delightLatestCD Projekt Red boss says ‘around 100’ Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4’s story director is ‘the same person since Witcher 1’See more latest►Most PopularAssassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less ‘like a gas pedal’Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, January 11The Last of Us season 2 trailer is a brief look at a story you should probably just play yourself in AprilLords of the Fallen publisher embraces fear of the DEI boogeyman, says it will not include ‘any social or political agendas’ in its gamesEpic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are ‘pretending to be Republicans’ to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately ‘rip off consumers and crush competitors’If you’re trying to convince me your ‘companionship’ robot is ‘lifelike’, maybe don’t rip her face off in the demo videoSquare Enix launches new anti-harassment policy to protect its employees and partners from abusive fansThe Sims begins its 25th anniversary celebration next week with a Behind The Sims episode of news and announcementsPath of Exile 2 numberlord spends 16 straight days killing rare monsters to prove that a stat that makes loot better makes better lootPalestinian developer raises more than $200,000 to make Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the horrors of the 1948 NakbaPiranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans ‘performed below projections’HARDWARE BUYING GUIDESLATEST GAME REVIEWS1Best Steam Deck accessories in Australia for 2025: Our favorite docks, powerbanks and gamepads2Best graphics card for laptops: the mobile GPUs I’d want in my next gaming laptop3Best mini PCs in 2025: The compact computers I love the most4Best 14-inch gaming laptop: The top compact gaming laptops I’ve held in these hands5Best Mini-ITX motherboards in 2025: My pick from all the mini mobo marvels I’ve tested1Thank Goodness You’re Here! review2Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island review3WD Black SN850X 8 TB NVMe SSD review4Ikea Utespelare desk review5Asus ROG Harpe Ace Mini wireless mouse review

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(Image credit: Valve)We’re up to our necks in notable videogame birthdays this month.The original 1994 Warcraft RTS turns 30 years old on November 15, and then a week later 2004’s World of Warcraft turns 20. Half-Life 2 also came out in 2004 and turns 20 this month, as do Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, EverQuest 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (which famously released on the same day as Half-Life 2… oops).What a month November 2004 was, eh? November 2014 wasn’t quite so stacked, but it did contain Dragon Age: Inquisition, making that game 10 years old as of November 18. Since it gotDragon Age: The Veilguardout in October, we can’t quite say that BioWare made us wait a decade for a new game in the series.Happy birthday, videogames! Here’s a list of some of the most notable games celebrating milestones this month, including console games…10thCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare -November 4, 2014Five Nights at Freddy’s 2- November 10, 2014Assassin’s Creed Unity (and AC: Rogue)- November 11, 2014World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor- November 13, 2014Far Cry 4 -November 18, 2014LittleBigPlanet 3-November 18, 2014Dragon Age: Inquisition- November 18, 201420thCounter-Strike: Source- November 1, 2004 (officially)Killzone- November 2, 2004Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal- November 3, 2004EverQuest 2- November 8, 2004Jak 3- November 9, 2004Halo 2 -November 9, 2004Need for Speed: Underground 2- November 9, 2004Metroid Prime 2: Echoes -November 14, 2004Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines- November 16, 2004Half-Life 2- November 16, 2004Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - November 17, 2004Sid Meier’s Pirates!- November 22, 2004World of Warcraft- November 23, 2004Dragon Quest 8- November 27, 2004 (Japan)Prince of Persia: Warrior Within- November 30, 200430thWarcraft: Orcs & Humans- November 15, 1994Donkey Kong Country- November 21, 1994King’s Quest 7: The Princeless Bride- November 22, 1994We’re preparing a platter of retrospective coverage for some of these big November anniversaries, but for now I only wanted to comment on the inexorable passage of time. Warcraft being 30 is fine—the ’90s feel sufficiently long ago that I can accept that—but the existence of 20-year-olds who’ve never known a world without Steam is a medium-power liver punch.If you believe physicist Carlo Rovelli, there is no fundamental variable in the universe that can be called “time,” and it’s actually an emergent property of our particular and blurred perspective on the quantum interactions that make up reality. But that doesn’t make it hit any less hard when he quotes the opera Der Rosenkavalier inThe Order of Time. From the book’s English translation:“Everything slips through our fingers. All that we seek to hold on to dissolves. Everything vanishes, like mist and dreams. Time is a strange thing. When we don’t need it, it is nothing. Then, suddenly, there is nothing else. It is everywhere around us. Also within us. It seeps into our faces."(Sorry, but I did ask in the headline if you wanted to feel old.)More about gamesToday’s Wordle answer for Sunday, January 12Watching an all-romances speedrun of the legendarily janky Fallout: New Vegas is a delightLatestCD Projekt Red boss says ‘around 100’ Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4’s story director is ‘the same person since Witcher 1’See more latest►Most PopularAssassin’s Creed Shadows takes a run at improving parkour, as Ubisoft strives to make the system less ‘like a gas pedal’Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, January 11The Last of Us season 2 trailer is a brief look at a story you should probably just play yourself in AprilLords of the Fallen publisher embraces fear of the DEI boogeyman, says it will not include ‘any social or political agendas’ in its gamesEpic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are ‘pretending to be Republicans’ to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately ‘rip off consumers and crush competitors’If you’re trying to convince me your ‘companionship’ robot is ‘lifelike’, maybe don’t rip her face off in the demo videoSquare Enix launches new anti-harassment policy to protect its employees and partners from abusive fansThe Sims begins its 25th anniversary celebration next week with a Behind The Sims episode of news and announcementsPath of Exile 2 numberlord spends 16 straight days killing rare monsters to prove that a stat that makes loot better makes better lootPalestinian developer raises more than $200,000 to make Dreams on a Pillow, a game about the horrors of the 1948 NakbaPiranha Games will lay off employees after Mechwarrior 5: Clans ‘performed below projections’

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We’re up to our necks in notable videogame birthdays this month.The original 1994 Warcraft RTS turns 30 years old on November 15, and then a week later 2004’s World of Warcraft turns 20. Half-Life 2 also came out in 2004 and turns 20 this month, as do Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, EverQuest 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (which famously released on the same day as Half-Life 2… oops).What a month November 2004 was, eh? November 2014 wasn’t quite so stacked, but it did contain Dragon Age: Inquisition, making that game 10 years old as of November 18. Since it gotDragon Age: The Veilguardout in October, we can’t quite say that BioWare made us wait a decade for a new game in the series.Happy birthday, videogames! Here’s a list of some of the most notable games celebrating milestones this month, including console games…10thCall of Duty: Advanced Warfare -November 4, 2014Five Nights at Freddy’s 2- November 10, 2014Assassin’s Creed Unity (and AC: Rogue)- November 11, 2014World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor- November 13, 2014Far Cry 4 -November 18, 2014LittleBigPlanet 3-November 18, 2014Dragon Age: Inquisition- November 18, 201420thCounter-Strike: Source- November 1, 2004 (officially)Killzone- November 2, 2004Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal- November 3, 2004EverQuest 2- November 8, 2004Jak 3- November 9, 2004Halo 2 -November 9, 2004Need for Speed: Underground 2- November 9, 2004Metroid Prime 2: Echoes -November 14, 2004Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines- November 16, 2004Half-Life 2- November 16, 2004Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - November 17, 2004Sid Meier’s Pirates!- November 22, 2004World of Warcraft- November 23, 2004Dragon Quest 8- November 27, 2004 (Japan)Prince of Persia: Warrior Within- November 30, 200430thWarcraft: Orcs & Humans- November 15, 1994Donkey Kong Country- November 21, 1994King’s Quest 7: The Princeless Bride- November 22, 1994We’re preparing a platter of retrospective coverage for some of these big November anniversaries, but for now I only wanted to comment on the inexorable passage of time. Warcraft being 30 is fine—the ’90s feel sufficiently long ago that I can accept that—but the existence of 20-year-olds who’ve never known a world without Steam is a medium-power liver punch.If you believe physicist Carlo Rovelli, there is no fundamental variable in the universe that can be called “time,” and it’s actually an emergent property of our particular and blurred perspective on the quantum interactions that make up reality. But that doesn’t make it hit any less hard when he quotes the opera Der Rosenkavalier inThe Order of Time. From the book’s English translation:“Everything slips through our fingers. All that we seek to hold on to dissolves. Everything vanishes, like mist and dreams. Time is a strange thing. When we don’t need it, it is nothing. Then, suddenly, there is nothing else. It is everywhere around us. Also within us. It seeps into our faces."(Sorry, but I did ask in the headline if you wanted to feel old.)

We’re up to our necks in notable videogame birthdays this month.

The original 1994 Warcraft RTS turns 30 years old on November 15, and then a week later 2004’s World of Warcraft turns 20. Half-Life 2 also came out in 2004 and turns 20 this month, as do Halo 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, EverQuest 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (which famously released on the same day as Half-Life 2… oops).

What a month November 2004 was, eh? November 2014 wasn’t quite so stacked, but it did contain Dragon Age: Inquisition, making that game 10 years old as of November 18. Since it gotDragon Age: The Veilguardout in October, we can’t quite say that BioWare made us wait a decade for a new game in the series.

Happy birthday, videogames! Here’s a list of some of the most notable games celebrating milestones this month, including console games…

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We’re preparing a platter of retrospective coverage for some of these big November anniversaries, but for now I only wanted to comment on the inexorable passage of time. Warcraft being 30 is fine—the ’90s feel sufficiently long ago that I can accept that—but the existence of 20-year-olds who’ve never known a world without Steam is a medium-power liver punch.

If you believe physicist Carlo Rovelli, there is no fundamental variable in the universe that can be called “time,” and it’s actually an emergent property of our particular and blurred perspective on the quantum interactions that make up reality. But that doesn’t make it hit any less hard when he quotes the opera Der Rosenkavalier inThe Order of Time. From the book’s English translation:

“Everything slips through our fingers. All that we seek to hold on to dissolves. Everything vanishes, like mist and dreams. Time is a strange thing. When we don’t need it, it is nothing. Then, suddenly, there is nothing else. It is everywhere around us. Also within us. It seeps into our faces.”

(Sorry, but I did ask in the headline if you wanted to feel old.)

More about gamesToday’s Wordle answer for Sunday, January 12Watching an all-romances speedrun of the legendarily janky Fallout: New Vegas is a delightLatestCD Projekt Red boss says ‘around 100’ Witcher 3 designers still work at the company, while the Witcher 4’s story director is ‘the same person since Witcher 1’See more latest►

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