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Running since Friday morning (01/22/2010), GOG.com started a countdown to the biggest announcement in GOG.com’s history!

The countdown will reach it’s end on Thursday, January 28 at noon CET (6:00 a.m. EDT). That is when they will reveal the secret!

GOG.com users are already guessing what is the secret announcement on the forums: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/the_countdown_has_started/
“There are some great expectations about our this and we promise we won’t let classic games fans down. In the next days we’ll give some hints that should give our users a clue what the announcement is all about. ” (From the press release)

Check it out, the clues are there, and they promise it will be exciting. Classic gamers take notice! We’ll keep up on it and let you know what the big news is all about, in the meantime, visit the forums and see if you can guess for yourself!

DRM-Free Digital Distribution Outlet Celebrates the Season with Great Deals on Games like Fallout, Duke Nukem 3D, Beyond Good & Evil and Many More

Warsaw, Poland – December 21 – Still busy giving away the Tex Murphy 1+2 bundle for free to every registered user, GOG.com (http://www.gog.com) is continuing its seasonal celebration with the launch of a bargain-filled Holiday Sale. From today until January 3, GOG.com offers up to 40% off nearly every game in its catalogue.

Among 171 discounted titles gamers will find Fallout, Duke Nukem 3D and Freespace 2 for $3.98 each, Beyond Good & Evil™ and Heroes of Might and Magic® 3 for $7.49, Jagged Alliance 2 and Sacred Gold for $5.99 and many, many more. The full list of games with discounts, along with recommendations from the GOG.com team, can be found on the promo page at http://www.gog.com/en/page/xmas09

“2009 has been an amazing year for GOG.com, during which we’ve expanded our catalogue to more than 170 games and brought in lots of new users from around the world,” said Adam Oldakowski, Managing Director of GOG.com. “This Holiday Sale – along with the free Tex Murphy 1+2 giveaway that’s still going until December 24 – is a way for us to give back to the loyal fans that have made our site such a success. It’s a great opportunity for them to grab the games they have on their wish-lists and to clear their gaming backlog in advance of 2010, when we’ll have lots of amazing announcements that will further cement GOG.com’s position as the best place to get classic PC games.”

The Holiday Sale is on until Sunday, January 3 at 11:59 p.m. EDT, and includes all games from GOG.com catalogue excluding those released in December. Discounts vary from 25% up to 40% off for a game.

The Film Noir Private Eye Returns to the Spotlight as the DRM-free Site Releases the Acclaimed Tex Murphy Series

GOG.com (http://www.gog.com), the internet’s premier spot for DRM-free classic PC games and an unmatched digital distribution experience, has signed another deal to revive a new batch of classic adventure games. Thanks to the deal with Aaron Conners, one of the creators of the Tex Murphy games, GOG.com will offer the whole series including Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum, Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive and Tex Murphy: Overseer. With the announcement GOG.com releases a bundle of 1989’s Mean Streets and 1991’s Martian Memorandum for the low price of $5.99 and the third part in the Tex Murphy saga – Under a Killing Moon – for $9.99, DRM-free and XP and Vista compatible.

Tex Murphy thinks of himself as a classic 1940’s-style detective: hard-boiled and cynical with an ex-wife, a few good friends, a lot of enemies, and a drinking problem – the problem being that he can’t afford the good stuff. Unfortunately for Tex, he was born 100 years too late: he’s living in mid-21 century, post-World War III San Francisco. There is plenty of work for a down-on-his-luck P. I. Now he just needs to figure out how to get paid for it.

“Tex Murphy’s adventures are the essence of classic adventure games. Add to this an array of crazy and funny characters including Chris Jones as Tex Murphy, and you have an absolute classic,” said Adam Oldakowski, Managing Director of GOG.com. “It’s basically our duty to revive this incredible series for a new generation of gamers, as well as those who played these games back in the 90s.”

According to Aaron Conners, who wrote and co-designed the last three Tex Murphy games, “What people seem to love about Tex is that he’s just an average guy…sometimes a little below average. He’s always in the middle of something that’s way over his head, but as he says: ‘Danger’s like jello – there’s always room for more.’ Most of us can’t relate to being James Bond, but pretty much everyone can relate to Tex.”

Mean Streets + Martian Memorandum bundle and Under a Killing Moon are already available at GOG.com, with the rest of Tex Murphy’s games planned to hit the catalogue in the coming weeks.

AND They have more things to come this week, like exclusive new bonus materials, the second part of the retrospective, the best Fallout mods spotlight and more. Every Fallout fan and every Good Old Games fan will find something interesting for themselves.

They’ve just launched a Special Spring Promo on GOG.com – http://www.gog.com/en/page/spring_promo

You can grab some great classics with a 25% discount!!!  They have prepared you 7 bundles with great games including:
Giants: Citizen Kabuto + Sacrifice for only $8.98
TOCA Race Driver 3 + Screamer for only $11.98
Arx Fatalis + Stonekeep for only $8.98
Painkiller Black Edition + Redneck Rampage for only $11.98
Second Sight + Messiah for only $11.98
Freespace + Freespace 2 for only $8.98
Perimeter + Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising for only $11.98
If you already own one of the games from a bundle you can still grab the other one 25% cheaper.

The promo will last for 7 days, until Thursday, April 16 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

Metropolis Software’s Point-and-Click Adventure Teenagent is the 100th Title Added to DRM-Free Site

Warsaw, Poland – March 31, 2009. GOG.com (http://www.gog.com), the ultimate digital distribution platform for DRM-free and cheap – or even free – classic PC games, is proud to announce the addition of yet another Good Old Game, bringing the total tally to a cool 100. Teenagent (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/teenagent), a point-and-click adventure game from Polish developer and fellow CD Projekt family member, Metropolis Software, is now available for the low, low price of NOTHING, joining the two other free games already available at GOG.com, Beneath a Steel Sky and Lure of the Temptress from Revolution Software. Free. No moneys. Gratis.

“It’s been less than six months since we started the open beta, and in that time we’ve managed to sign 20 publishers and reach the 100-games milestone,” said Adam Oldakowski, Managing Director of GOG.com. “We still have a lot more PC-gaming history to revive, but we’re thrilled that we’ve kept up our goal of releasing at least two new games each week. We’d like to reward our amazing fans with the free release of Teenagent, and we hope that you’ll all be with us when we hit 200, then 300 and beyond!”

If you haven’t already checked out GOG.com, then head straight over there, create an account and download Teenagent for free and find out what all the kids are talking about!

Beyond Good and Evil, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six and Far Cry among titles coming to Good Old Games

Today, Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, and GOG.com (http://www.gog.com), the games-on-demand platform dedicated to DRM-free classic PC games that’s just too cool for school, announced an agreement to deliver Ubisoft’s best back-catalogue games via GOG.com.

The agreement brings classic Ubisoft titles like Beyond Good and Evil, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Far Cry, Heroes of Might and Magic and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell to gamers around the world via GOG.com’s DRM-free games catalogue. As with all GOG.com releases, the titles are affordable and accompanied by mounds of extras, including soundtracks, wallpapers, forum avatars and much more.

“We’re incredibly happy to welcome Ubisoft and their much-loved games to GOG.com,” said Adam Oldakowski, managing director of GOG.com. “Ubisoft has long been breaking new ground with innovative and award-winning games, and is strongly reinforcing that trailblazing image by bringing its titles to GOG.com. The warm welcome of GOG.com by gamers convinced us that there is huge demand for classic games at a low price and packed with bonus materials. With more titles from leading companies like Ubisoft we will be able to achieve our goal of becoming the ultimate destination for fans of classic PC games.”

Ubisoft’s classic games have already started to hit GOG.com’s catalogue, with Beyond Good and Evil (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/beyond_good_and_evil), Prince of Persia: Sands of Time(http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/prince_of_persia_the_sands_of_time) and IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/il_2_sturmovik_1946) now available for $9.99 each. Other titles will be added in the coming weeks.

Well, there’s not been a press release about this yet, but hey, it’s a no-brainer. All Interplay action genre titles are 25% off! Just hit the site, and look for the Interplay titles and save even more! When you check out, enter promo code: ACTION.

Here’s a list of games that are included in the promo:

Die by the Sword
Earthworm Jim 1 + 2
Earthworm Jim 3D
MDK
MDK 2
Messiah
Shattered Steel

Earth 2150, Septerra Core and Other Good Old Games Coming to DRM-free Platform

GOG.com (http://www.gog.com), the good-looking and adventurous archaeologist of the gaming world, has once again succeeded in its search for long-lost PC gaming gems, unearthing classics from TopWare Interactive’s catalogue. The international software developer and publisher will bring a wide range of titles to Good Old Games, including Earth 2150 Trilogy, Earth 2160, Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator, Jagged Alliance: Wildfire and Gorky 17 (also known as Odi-um). As you read this, two games have already hit the site: the futuristic strategy Earth 2140 with two mission packs (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/earth_2140_trilogy) and the point and click adventure game Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure Director’s Cut (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/jack_orlando_a_cinematic_adventure_dc). And we’ll let you in on a little-known secret: all games at GOG.com are totally DRM-free and compatible with Windows Vista and XP. Best of all, these unique TopWare treasures can be yours for the incredibly low price of only $5.99 each!

“It’s a great pleasure to welcome TopWare Interactive to GOG.com, supporting our user-friendly and DRM-free distribution platform,” said Adam Oldakowski, Managing Director of GOG.com. “Thanks to the addition of titles like the Earth series or Septerra Core, I’m sure we’ll make a lot of Good Old Games fans happy.”

“We like the idea of GOG very much and will support this great marketplace with our titles in the future,” said Dirk Hassinger, Board Chairman of Zuxxez Entertainment AG.

Earth 2140, with two mission packs, and Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure Director’s Cut are now available at GOG.com, while the rest of TopWare Interactive’s titles will hit the virtual shelves of the GOG.com store soon.