Tag: Good Old Games

Deal Alert: ‘Fallout’, ‘Fallout 2’, ‘Fallout Tactics’ Are FREE On Good Old Games!

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: You’re going to want to jump on this deal RIGHT NOW, as it’s only on for another day!

The always-wonderful Good Old Games has launched their annual (fantastic) DRM-Free Winter Sale. There are TONS of great games on sale (600 titles at over 50% off, to be exact) but the company also has an incredible freebie for all GoG users.

Right now you can pick up Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for nothing. Like totally free. Yep, $0.

The games work on both OS X and Windows, and as always with the service, are completely DRM free.

Head here to download, and be sure to show your support by picking up a few more titles (Theme Hospital for $2.99, yes please)!

Thanks to everyone at Good Old Games for all of their hard work! Be sure to let us know what you pick up!

 

Good Old Games Summer #NoDRM Sale Begins, ‘Torchlight’ Free For 48 Hours!

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: Good Old Games is jumping on the DRM bandwagon that Microsoft began with the Xbox One reveal. This company’s strategy, however, is to advertise their lack of it.

The company has just launched a new sale, titled the 2013 #NoDRM Summer Sale, and there are certainly some phenomenal deals to be had. I’ve been using GoG for a number of years now, and the quality of their titles, as well as their service and support, is absolutely wonderful.

One very special deal that the sale is offering is Runic Games Torchlight for the amazing price of $0.00. The game pays homage to the Diablo series, and is an addicting, dungeon crawling masterpiece. Torchlight was well worth its launch price, and you’ll never, ever see a deal on it that’s better than this.

Check out GoG’s main sale page here, or head here to jump directly to Torchlight. Let us know what you’re planning to pick up! I’ve recently rediscovered Theme Hospital, and I simply cannot stop playing it!

Like Old Games? How About 32 Classic Interplay Titles For $34.99?

by Derek Kraneveldt

Good Old Games has just launched a promotion that’s simply too fantastic not to talk about. If you’re a fan of older Interplay titles, you’re not going to want to pass this up.

The promotion is pseudo Pay-What-You-Want (akin to the wonderful Humble Bundle). You can pay anything you want for a set of 8 titles, if you go above the average you’ll get 12 more, and anything about $34.99 will get you another 12 for a total of 32!

Here are the games:

Pay anything (8 games):

-Conquest of the New World
-M.A.X 1+2
-Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business
-Shattered Steel
-Screamer
-Evolva
-Kingdom: The Far Reaches
-VR Soccer ’96

Paying above the average (currently $14.00) will add the following:

-Freespace 1 + Expansion
-Giants: Citizen Kabuto
-Descent 3 + Expansion
-Stonekeep
-Castles 1 + 2
-Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
-Messiah
-Battle Chess Special Edition
-Die By the Sword + Expansion
-Earthworm Jim 3D
-F/A-18E Super Hornet
-Invictus: In the Shadow of Olympus

$34.99 or higher will add the following, bringing the total to 32 games:

-Fallout 1
-Fallout 2
-Fallout Tactics
-Freespace 2
-Descent 1+2
-Redneck Rampage Collection
-Sacrifice
-Earthworm Jim 1+2
-MDK 1+2
-Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
-Kingpin: Life of Crime

That’s quite a lot of games! Of course there are plenty of classics in the list (as well as some games I’ve never heard of). The package is well worth it for the classics alone! As a bonus, if you decide to go for the top tier, GoG is including 21 soundtracks from the games, and some other goodies as well!

Are you planning on picking this package up? Which games are you most excited for?

Again, the games are all available from Good Old Games 

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.