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Plentiful News From CD Projekt RED & GOG.com Spring Conference

by MoreLikeAndy

CD Projekt RED announced some great things at today’s Spring Conference about The Witcher series that was streamed live on Ustream for all to watch. Besides showing off gameplay from the Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition which comes out on April 17th, here are some highlights from the conference.

iOS users will get an interactive motion comic starring the witcher himself, Geralt. It will be released free for both iPhone and iPad on April 17th. Another thing for the Apple crowd is you can now buy and play The Witcher: Enhanced Edition on your Mac through Steam. As with other PC games getting a Mac version on Steam, if you own a copy of The Witcher on Steam for PC already, you get the Mac version for free. If you’re not a person that has PC and Mac in the same household, you can pay the $9.99 for it now on Steam.

We all know how backing up your data is important and CD Projekt Red and GOG.com seems to agree with offering a free back-up digital copy of The Witcher 2 to anyone who purchases the game. No matter where you bought it from or when. On April 17th, point your web browser of choice to http://www.gog.com/en/page/witcherbackup and sign into your account to have your back-up copy waiting.

PC gamers that already have The Witcher 2 will get access to the “Enhanced Edition” update on April 17th with preloading the update starting April 11th.

The biggest thing to come out of CD Projekt RED’s conference was their crazy campaign that will give out 1000 copies of The Witcher 2 on Xbox 360 to “enthusiast” reviewers. Simply go to http://thewitcher.com/review and fill out the form. CD Projekt RED will contact you a few days later. It’s that easy. Everyone thinks they can write better reviews than the paid professionals. Now’s your time to prove it.

Not to be left out of all the fun, GOG.com had some news to drop as well. From the developers of Machiarium comes a new title, Botanicula.

Botanicula will release on April 19th for $9.99

GOG.com will also start offering “Premium Edition” games with some newer titles to arrive on their site starting with Assassin’s Creed: Director’s Cut and Heroes of Might & Magic V Bundle that includes both expansion packs. Just like the older games on GOG.com, you will get a ton of stuff with the Premium Edition games from official art books to soundtracks and more.

Finally, the reason why GOG.com is probably loading slow for everyone. For the next 48 hours, you can get Fallout for free. If you ever wanted to see how the series got its start, go get your free copy now.

GOG.com Spring Announcements: Witcher II: Assassins of Kings Edition , Trine, Legend of Grimrock AND MORE!

by Shane O'Hare

The fabulous folks over at GOG (Good Old Games) have released a STAGGERING amount of news today regarding their deal with CD Projekt RED and their spring lineup.

Two weeks before the release of Witcher II: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, GOG and CD Projekt Red, the Polish developer of the Witcher series, wll stream a live event. The official press release says:

“Just two weeks before we launch Enhanced Edition on Xbox 360 and PC,
and we’re doing something that is truly extraordinary. I don’t think
anyone’s ever done something like this for their gamers. We have
prepared pretty big surprises for gamers of all kinds, and we think
that you will enjoy them a lot. If games are your passion, watch our
conference,” said Marcin Iwinski, Joint CEO of CD Projekt RED S.A.

Witcher II: Assassins of Kings is slated to ship internationally on May 17th. So make sure to check out GOG.com two weeks prior for the live stream.

If you are unfamiliar with GOG, let me bring you up to speed. They are a revolutionary group of lads and lasses that offer DRM-FREE digital distribution of games. They’re know for offering games that have been long out of print. It’s the only place to get a copy of my favorite PC FPS of all time, SHOGO.

Starting with Witcher II and Legend of Grimrock (GOG is the only digital distrubution service offering preorders of Legend of Grimrock, and they are putting a 20% discount on top of that.) they will start moving out of the “Classic Game” market and begin offering DRM-FREE new releases! Along with the new stuff, you can get copies of Trine and The Whispered World as well.

So what does this mean for us PC gamers? Well GOG has always been a nuisance to their competitors but never really offered anything for the likes of STEAM, ORiGIN or Direct2Drive to really be worried about. Now though, with the advent of true DRM-FREE release day available games, it is really putting GOG up there in the same boat as STEAM. We’ve all been there, internet goes down, moving or leaving on a jet plane and no access to the Steamcloud and all those games out of reach, hopefully this push by GOG will make STEAM and the others to offer a bit of change.