The story of Porsche & video games is a rather tragic one. The Stuttgart-based automaker creates some of the world’s most desirable and sought after sports cars, vehicles that are naturally requested by fans to be part of self-respecting racing game franchise.

Unfortunately, Porsche was absent from most of the notable driving titles in recent years due to Electronic Arts having a much-discussed (and often cursed by sim racers!) exclusive licensing agreement with the German brand that confined Porsche’s to EA racing titles such as Need for Speed & Real Racing on mobile devices.

The only notable exceptions to that have been two DLC packs for Forza Motorsport & Forza Horizon that have been made possibly by a sub-licensing agreement between EA & Turn 10 Studios, the economics of which forced this content to be released as a DLC pack.

Right in time for Porsche’s 17th overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours, there are good news on the horizon as a recent Ars Technica article reveals that EA’s exclusive dibs on Porsche are about to expire in 2016:

“Porsche will be back, too, although not until 2016—Electronic Arts still has an exclusive license for the German sports car maker until then.”

While no details on future of Porsche in video games are available yet, it’s safe to say that pretty much everything will be an improvement over the situation as it is now! So there’s hope, after all…