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GOG Now Sells Thief: Deadly Shadows, Splinter Cell, and Anomaly

Digital distribution service GOG, formerly known as Good Old Games, has just added three new games to its portfolio, including two classic titles, in the form of Thief: Deadly Shadows and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, as well as the newer Anomaly: Warzone Earth. GOG started off by offering older titles without a...

4 May 2012
15:51 GMT

Large Discounts, Like Those on Steam, Hurt Games, GoG Believes

Digital distribution services like Valve’s Steam have gotten gamers used with large discounts sometimes slashing 80% off a game’s regular price. This is causing a lot of damage to both titles and actual customers, at least according to retailer GoG, formerly known as Good Old Games. Steam and quite ...

13 April 2012
17:21 GMT

GoG Offers Fallout 1 for Free, Unveils New Deals and Pre-Orders

Good Old Games, the special digital distribution service ran by CD Projekt Red, has begun making the changes it teased since last year, starting with the introduction of pre-orders and the arrival of special Premium Edition games. Good Old Games was first started as a service that distributed classic games without a...

6 April 2012
04:34 GMT

Deus Ex and Hitman Games Now Available on Good Old Games

Square Enix is the latest company to join up with Good Old Games, as the PC digital distribution service will now sell downloadable versions of the company’s classic Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition and Hitman: Codename 47 titles. Good Old Games is the PC digital distribution service focused on delivering gre...

26 January 2012
09:00 GMT

The Original Syndicate Is Now Available on Good Old Games

Good Old Games, the digital distribution service focused on offering some of the most impressive classic games, has just started selling the original Syndicate, the hit strategy game made by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts.The Syndicate series dazzled strategy fans back in the 1990s with its superb gameplay...

20 January 2012
14:21 GMT

DRM Doesn’t Stop Piracy, Game Content Does, Good Old Games Believes

Good Old Games, the digital distribution service focused on selling classic titles without any sort of DRM and with extra features, believes other game publishers need to stop believing that DRM (Digital Rights Management) systems will stop people from pirating their games, and just try to pack in more value into the...

1 December 2011
03:12 GMT

There’s a Lot To Learn from Piracy and Pirates, Good Old Games Believes

Piracy on the PC platform has once again become a talked about topic, thanks to inflammatory comments from Ubisoft, but Good Old Games’ Trevor Longino believes the industry can learn a lot from the mechanics of PC games piracy and from pirates themselves.Ubisoft once again baited PC gamers with some harsh comme...

28 November 2011
04:08 GMT

Good Old Games to Start Selling New Titles and Expand Its Catalog

Good Old Games, the digital distribution service focused on delivering classic PC games with low prices and functionality for current generation operating systems and computers, has revealed its expansion plans and how it's going to start selling new games in the near future.GOG.com has certainly increased its m...

21 November 2011
03:13 GMT

Witcher 2 Digital Sales Come Close to 250,000 Units

CD Projekt has announced that its role playing game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings have managed to sell 195,000 copies on the Steam service from Valve, 35,000 copies on Good Old Games and another around 10,000 copies using other digital outlets.Marcin Iwiński, one of the leaders of CD Projekt, stated, “The d...

11 November 2011
10:50 GMT

Valve Believes Only Superior Service Can Defeat Piracy

Video game developer and Steam creator Valve has again talked about piracy and how the only way to reduce its impact is to deliver an experience that the illegal copies of video games cannot match up to.This means that digital distribution can reach and turn a profit even in those countries that are traditionally ign...

25 October 2011
15:01 GMT

Good Old Games Competes Not with Steam But with Piracy

Good Old Games might not be the biggest players in the digital distribution space but one of its executives says that it's main competition is not from Valve's Steam but from the piracy driven black market.Speaking to MCV Guillaume Rambourg, who is the managing director working at Good Old Games, has stated...

24 October 2011
13:41 GMT

Good Old Games Believes DRM Cannot Reduce Piracy Impact

The debate over video games Digital Rights Management solutions seems to have died down a little in the last few months, but the people at Good Old Games are aiming to resurrect it by saying that the industry should drop protections altogether and deliver a smoother experience for the end user. Lukasz Kukawski, wh...

14 April 2011
10:19 GMT

The Witcher 2 Could Make the Jump to Consoles

The developers at CD Projekt who are working on the upcoming action role playing game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, have said that their title could be coming to home gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 just months after it arrives on the PC as long as the technology allows it and there'...

26 November 2010
04:40 GMT

Activision Classics Gabriel Knight and Arcanum Arrive on Good Old Games

While most digital distribution services mainly rely on the newest and most popular games to boost their sales, Good Old Games takes a very retro approach to the idea. Started in 2008 by CD Projeckt, the service provides vintage PC games without applying any digital-rights management. As a pretty new formed service, ...

29 January 2010
03:01 GMT

Broken Sword Series Coming to Good Old Games

Good Old Games, the digital distribution platform created and maintained by CD Projekt, is announcing that it plans to add two games from the Broken Sword series to its already extensive line up. Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror and Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon will be offered to gamers who are interested in...

5 January 2009
05:21 GMT

Get all the Unreal Titles from Good Old Games

Good Old Games, the digital distribution channel created and maintained by CD Projekt, the guys who developed role playing titles such as The Witcher, announce having signed an agreement with Epic Games for bringing most of the Unreal series to the service.The following titles will be included in the deal: Unreal Gol...

19 November 2008
11:51 GMT

The Witcher Sells More than 1 Million Copies

CD Projekt, the developers of The Witcher, are announcing that their game has sold more than 1 million copies since the release date of October 2007. This figure includes both the sales of the original game and those generated by the newly released Enhanced Edition. 1 million is a big figure for a game that came from...

31 October 2008
17:01 GMT

Good Old Games Is in Open Beta

CD Projekt is announcing that Good Old Games, its online service which aims to offer customers DRM free classic titles at discount prices, is now entering open beta. The company is best known for launching the role playing game The Witcher. The closed beta period which just ended has seen more than 10,000 people tryi...

27 October 2008
09:41 GMT


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