Digital Distributor Good Old Games, has just announced that they've signed with EA to bring back some of PC Gamings classic titles. Wing Commander: Privateer, Dungeon Keeper and Ultima Underworld 1+2 are available today! Currently being remastered, and soon to be released are Crusader: No remorse, Magic Carpet, and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. By the end of summer, more than 25 EA classics will be available. As always, GOG games are always DRM free.
I've recently gotten Master of Magic, Age of Wonders, AOW:Shadow Magic, Fallout, and The Witcher EE. I can't wait to get Alpha Centauri! And Arcanum, Baldurs gate, Call to Power 2, Master of Orion, and a bunch more. I've been a GOGer for just over a month now. I'm hooked. Their catalog is filled with classics from PC Gamings glory days. Their new downloader works great! And I can burn backups to CD that will never require me to connect to the internet or jump through any other validation hoop! I learned about GOG through reading posts here at Stardocks forums. So I figured I'd share it forward and do my part to spread the word.
Alpha Centauri? WOOT!
ooo. That's great!
Alpha Centauri will be one of their biggest pickups.
Alpha Centauri!! Excellent game.. I still play it.. with and without alien crossfire.
That's a lot of love for Alpha Centauri, but honestly I'm looking forward to Ultima Underworld 1 & 2 and Privateer more
Looking forward to all of them. I hope I didn't misread though. If alpha is being remastered, that is awesome.
Oh I love Alpha Centauri--that will be awesome.
I would say something awesome or cool, but I'm too busy playing the said new games to provide a proper reply.
"Hell, it's about time!"
Crusader, Ultima, Magic Carpet, Wing Commander; maybe Eye of the Beholder and System Shock... [e digicons]:')[/e]
EA, eh? Those guys smell money. I can picture their management thinking: "Hey, why spend badzillions of cash for development modern, gfx-intensive dumbed down games, when it seems there is a consumer segment that actually prefers the older, non-dumbed down variety? No risk, no investments, just sweet profit. Get it going!"
Just to point out, the Age of Wonders games are half price on Impulse this weekend
I'm guessing the conversation went more like this:Exec 1: So we're launching Origin soon. We should get on that retro gaming action by offering all our older titles on it.
Exec 2: Sweet, sweet money.
Exec 3: It's not going to work.
Exec 1: Why?Exec 3: No one is going to pay for $5 retro game and install Origin just to play it.
Exec 1: Oh, yeah.
Exec 2: Just sell some packages to GOG.
Exec 3: It's just sweet money, instead of sweet, sweet money.
Exec 1: I guess. Hey, I'm hungry, can we get lunch?
Exec 3: Yeah. Want it brought in on the back of another hungry orphan?
Exec 1: Hell. Make it two.
Crusader!! woohoo!!!
AC is a big pickup for them; a classic that has been MIA from legal channels for years.
Now if they can just get permission to sell Bullfrog's classics.
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