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Inxile’s latest Kickstarter effort The Bard’s Tale IV has surpassed its $1.25m goal with weeks to spare. The upcoming game’s Kickstarter page currently displays more than $1.26m pledged from nearly 28,500 backers. All that, and the project still has 24 days until its conclusion – plenty of time to reach …
Read More »GOG refusing to sell Hatred, according to dev
Hatred developer Destructive Creations has announced GOG will not carry its controversial shooter Hatred when it releases next week. The studio claims the digital storefront has refused to distribute the game.” Hatred was previously delisted from Steam’s Greenlight pages, before Valve approved the game for release on its popular distribution …
Read More »GOG.com opens GOG Galaxy public beta, vows support for more triple-A titles
GOG.com is opening its new online gaming platform to the public, highlighting its completely ‘optional’ and ‘free’ nature to gamers. GOG Galaxy has been in alpha testing for months, but will be brought into open public beta as of today (May 5th). Among the core factors GOG hopes will attract …
Read More »Steam and GOG feel the Force for Star Wars
With Star Wars looking likely to become THE entertainment property of 2015, the video game hype continues with two big digital retail promotions. Having arrived digitally for the first time via GOG last October, four X-Wing games are now available on Steam – X-Wing Special Edition, TIE Fighter Special Edition, …
Read More »GOG.com launches DRM-free film service
Digital games distribution service GOG.com has announced its expansion into movies, as it hopes to entice Hollywood studios to join in its stance against DRM. The company’s new initiative launched earlier today with 20 documentaries revolving around the subject of gaming, including Indie Game: The Movie, Gamer Age and The …
Read More »The Vanishing of Ethan Carter launches next month on PC
Open-world crime thriller The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is set to launch next month on Windows PC, developer The Astronauts have announced. The title will launch September 25th on Steam and GOG, with the studio already taking pre-orders for both distributors via the game’s official website. The Vanishing of Ethan …
Read More »GOG accidentally gives away loads of games for free
Digital distribution platform GOG has admitted that a temporary glitch in its system accidentally saw titles given away for free for a short period. One user claimed to have received copies of Long Live The Queen, Kentucky Route Zero, Darwinia, Sir You Are Being Hunted, Flatout 2, Surgeon Simulator and …
Read More »GOG: Gamers are not criminals and do not need DRM
The video games industry should follow in the footsteps of the music sector and rid itself of digital rights management (DRM). That’s according to GOG North America boss Guillaume Rambourg who told Eurogamer that DRM does nothing other than punish loyal gamers. "We totally believe that distributing games without DRM …
Read More »The Witcher 3 press conference live tonight
CDProjekt Red and GOG are hosting a pre-E3 conference for The Witcher 3 tonight. Hosted by CDPR co-founder Marcin Iwi?ski, the event kicks off at 7pm here in the UK and promises to reveal plenty of news on the new title. In addition to plenty of new footage and collector’s …
Read More »GOG scraps regional pricing plans
Titles purchased from Good Old Games will cost the same no matter where you are in the world when you purchase them. That’s the message from GOG after the digital retailer announced that it is to abandon previously announced plans to vary the pricing of its titles in different regions. …
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