There’s no school like the old school, and EA knows it – that’s why they’ve been mulling over their back catalogue.

“We do have a couple of old franchises that we’re looking at right now… reimagining them and bringing them back,” EA Labels overlord Frank Gibeau tells CVG.

“We’ve got 25 years of good IPs and I’ve worked on a few of them in my career like Road Rash and the Strike series. So I have a strong affinity for a lot of the things we’ve done in the past.”

“We kind of have a rule which is you’ve got to have a really good reason to bring something back – what can you do to it that makes it fresh and brings something new to the equation of the franchise?” he explains, citing Medal of Honor as an example.

“When we look at Road Rash, the Strike series or some of these other franchises we really challenge ourselves. We can’t just put them on new tech with the same gameplay from ten years ago, we’ve got to have something new. That’s the typical challenge that we have.”

Oh oh oh, please be Theme Hospital. Or Dungeon Keeper. Or a proper SimCity, not that stupid SimCity Societies rubbish.

In the meantime, of course, there’s that is-it, isn’t-it Syndicate reboot in the works.