Posts Tagged ‘good old games’
Ubisoft Brings Wares to Good Old Games
GOG sends word that publisher Ubisoft is bringing the good old days back by bringing choice PC classics to their retro digital download store.
The first three titles are already up for $9.99 apiece – Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946.
More releases are planned in the future, including Far Cry, Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six titles.
The GOG platform is run by The Witcher studio CD Projekt. They offer DRM-free downloads of classic games for cheap.
Good Old Games Goes Unreal
DRM-free digital download store Good Old Games now carries titles from Epic’s classic shooter series Unreal.
Priced at $9.99 are Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition. More titles, including Unreal II and Unreal Tournament 2004 are slated to hit in the coming weeks.
"We know that a lot of gamers have been waiting for new deals," added GOG managing director Adam Oldakowski. "We’re sure that the Unreal games will satisfy their lust for alien blood and intense multiplayer action… DRM-free, of course."
Good Old Games’ Jagged Alliance is Sacred
Retro games Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games and Sacred have joined the roster of Good Old Games, the DRM-free digital distribution platform being run by CD Projekt, the studio behind The Witcher.
Released back in 1995, Jagged Alliance was developed by Sir-Tech and offers tactical turn-based RPG action. The other game is Sacred, a hack-and-slash adventure from 2004, that offers 8 character classes and includes the Underworld expansion, which adds more quests and 2 more classes.
Both games are retailing for $9.95 a piece.
Good Old Games Finally Launches
Aching for some retro goodness, but can’t find those old CDs? CD Projekt has finally launched the full version of its digital distribution platform Good Old Games for the public today, bringing cheap DRM-free downloads of classic PC games.
There are currently over 40 titles, priced at either $5.99 or $9.99. All the games have been reworked to work on modern operating systems – Windows Vista and XP – and can be downloaded as many times as you like.
Many more titles are set to hit the store soon. Hit the jump for the full list.
Publishers Scared of Going DRM-free
The gaming industry sure loves its DRM, unlike that of the recent trend in the music industry. CD Projekt’s Good Old Games digital distribution service, which is set to sell retro games without any form of DRM, is having a tough time convincing publishers to join the platform.
"We’re trying to convince [publishers] there is nothing to be afraid of," said studio CEO Michael Kicinski. "DRM-free, that is something they are really scared of, but on the other hand we can say ‘all of those games are available pirated widely so it’s better to sell them for small money than make the customer’s life difficult and get some more revenues.’"
CD Projekt is known best for The Witcher, but is currently focusing on launching the GOG service which will offer cheap, Vista-friendly versions of old games such as FreeSpace and Fallout.
"DRM makes customer’s lives too complicated, and this is usually because of some corporate ideas, policies and trying to be smart, too smart, in how to get customers and how to keep them and no let them go somewhere else. We are believers in the free market and bringing freedom to customers."