Black Isle Studios' post-apocalyptic RPGs Fallout and Fallout 2 will be among the many long-lost PC titles soon re-released by Good Old Games, a new online venture from The Witcher (PC) developer CD Projekt.
Located at GOG.com and slated to launch in September, the online store will sell DRM-free digital downloads of old-school PC games at $5.99 or $9.99 a pop. A closed public beta will go live on August 1, with the site currently accepting beta applications.
"Our main goal is to try and deliver the best games of all time for PC," marketing VP Tom Ohle explained to Shacknews.
The site will initially carry titles from publishers Interplay and Codemasters, including the previously-mentioned Fallout series, MDK 1 and 2, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Freespace 1 and 2, Sacrifice, Descent 1-3 and Kingpin: Life of Crime.
While a full list of the store's launch offerings has yet to be finalized, other games slated to appear by September include Shattered Steel, Jagged Alliance 2, Redneck Rampage, Operation: Flashpoint, Colin McRae, and TOCA Race Driver 3.
Each game sports full compatibility with Windows XP and Vista, and does not require any sort of online activation. To eliminate compatibility issues, the team has source code access to most games and will be creating custom installers for each title.
Once purchased, a title can be re-downloaded an unlimited number of times, allowing users to install the game on multiple machines.
In addition to retro game downloads, the site will boast a number of community features, including message boards, user reviews and game guides for select titles.
Ohle revealed that LucasArts' beloved catalog of PC games represents one of the "holy grails" CD Projekt hopes to offer one day. That lineup includes adventure games such as the Monkey Island series, Sam & Max: Freelance Police and Grim Fandango, along with Totally Games' space combat simulators X-Wing and TIE Fighter.
It doesn't look like it even requires software. From the sounds of it these are direct downloads, DRM free, and some great older games updated to work in XP, for a VERY VER Y VERY aggressive price?
This is made of win.
Oh. And I love their business model. Encouraging people to pay for it by providing things such as soundtracks and wallpapers and community forums.
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This looks pretty cool... But too bad I switched over to a Mac this year... I wonder if they could provide Mac support via Wine? If not, I suppose I could always use VMWare Fusion...
I think Tom is a fantastic guy and this is a great idea, but I suggest that they just partner up with Steam. Lets just keep all of our old games on one platform, Please.
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The big thing about Steam, for me, is being able to say "I want to play X" and just download it any time, no discs involved. Will that be the case here?
This sounds great. I've been planning on getting an MSI Wind to use for school and was looking for a place where I could get older games that would run on the low spec system and that didn't require a CD. This sounds like just the thing for me.
I'm so glad someone out there cares about old PC titles as much as I do. It took me hours to get my old Ultima VII games to run in XP.
I like Steam as much as most of you, but what the fuck is wrong with a little competition? When Stardock announced Impulse, the thread was full of the same comments from the Peanut Gallery, as if everyone should just shrug their shoulders and sign over their royalties to Valve.
I like Steam as much as most of you, but what the fuck is wrong with a little competition? When Stardock announced Impulse, the thread was full of the same comments from the Peanut Gallery, as if everyone should just shrug their shoulders and sign over their royalties to Valve.
Especially if the competition is doing things like DRM free downloads. I like STEAM as much as the next guy too, but I'll take no DRM over a unified friends list any day of the week. STEAM's nice, but it's far from perfect. A little bit of competition will do them good.
Especially if the competition is doing things like DRM free downloads. I like STEAM as much as the next guy too, but I'll take no DRM over a unified friends list any day of the week. STEAM's nice, but it's far from perfect. A little bit of competition will do them good.
Just click on the 'add a non-Steam game' button and now you can have a unified friends list in Fallout.
I keep hoping for Giants: Citizen Kabuto on GameTap, this will work for me as well. While they talk about Lucas Arts being a Holy Grail for these types of services the classic Origin, Bullfrog, etc... all owned by EA would be nice as well.
The idea of competing services makes more sense than it all being on steam. The competition between them is what allows DRMless software. If this were under say either EA or MS or even Valve, they could dictate the prices.
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