There's a lot to be said for the fact that iTunes is now offering DRM-free songs, and you have a number of people within this industry - like Gabe Newell at Valve - noting that DRM may not be the best way to protect your IP. It's definitely a hurdle for some companies that they're not ready to climb over yet, but we're confident they'll come around. I fully understand that, but it's not like it actually works I can go to and find any game I want right now. A lot of companies still see some sort of copy protection as absolutely necessary to protect their IP. Yeah, the DRM debate can be a bit of a sticking point in negotiations. Ultimately we want GOG.com to become the best place on the Internet for the fans of classic games. To entertain our classy community we're also publishing retrospective articles by known writers about the development process of the games and we're running lots of contests where you can grab free games from the catalogue. The community section offers separate forums dedicated to games available on GOG.com where users can discuss their favourite titles and meet other gamers that share the same passion to classic games. The games catalogue offers almost 100 titles including such hits from the past century like Fallout, Duke Nukem 3D, Simon the Sorcerer, Unreal, Earthworm Jim, Freespace and more.īut GOG.com isn't just a digital outlet.
What's even better is that you don't have to worry that your computer won't run those games, because our programmers optimise all GOG.com titles to run smoothly on both Windows Vista and XP operation systems. GOG.com is a digital distribution platform that supplies all old-school games fans with DRM-free and dirt-cheap PC classics. It seemed like a good excuse to catch up with marketing men Lukasz Kukawski and Tom Ohle and find out how it all works.įirst of all let's reveal what GOG means - it is an acronym for Good Old Games. As of this week, that list grows with the addition of Ubisoft, several of whose best games are now available for ten dollars. The service has been quietly going about its business for a while, and has built up a catalogue that includes games from the likes of Codemasters, Epic, Oddworld Inhabitants, Revolution Software and Strategy First. Run by the same mother-company that houses The Witcher studio CD Projekt RED, GOG.com reworks old and relatively recent PC games like Duke Nukem 3D, TOCA Race Driver 3, MDK and Fallout 1 and 2 so they work on Windows XP and Vista, and distributes them DRM-free for cheapo prices. While most of the digital distribution plaudits routinely go to Valve's Steam platform, with its unrivalled catalogue of modern games from a raft of supposedly competitive publishers, retro-minded PC gamers could do worse than switch their attention to GOG.com every now and then.
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