Bethesda revives servers for 20-year-old FPS in rare instance of a corporation being cool

Usually when a game studio makes an official announcement about servers, it’s bad news. Entire generations of multiplayer games have already gone the way of the dodo: being routinely decommissioned as they get on in years and can’t justify the effort to keep online anymore. If you’re lucky, a band of dedicated fans will keep a great game alive with private servers.

Such was the case of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a beloved class-based FPS made by Splash Damage as a standalone expansion to Return to Castle Wolfenstein. In a rare instance of good server news, Bethesda has spun up new dedicated servers for Enemy Territory featuring its six original maps and a completely vanilla ruleset. As of April, the game is also on Steam (opens in new tab) for free.