GOG.com opens to the public

By Robert Purchese Published 24 October, 2008

Classic, cheap, DRM-free PC games.

GOG.com (Good Old Games) has entered public beta, offering lots of PC games from yesteryear for download.

There's the Fallout games, for starters, plus Earthworm Jim, Freespace, Gothic and more. And they're all DRM-free, so you can put them on your iPod. [No you can't. - Ed]

They also work on Vista, unlike Vista itself, and are quite reasonably priced: most are around USD 5.99 (GBP 3.80). The poor old pound.

Everything, promises GOG, should be quick and easy, and there's even a "classy" community to become part of. We've heard that before.

Head over to the GOG.com website to find out more, and maybe fill in your PC history a bit while doing so.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Eraysor #1 3 years ago

    Oooh, OpFlash for $9.99. Might have to nab that.

  • KingOfIceland #2 3 years ago

    Actually, you can switch your iPod to a HDD mode and store weird files on it.


    But that's not funny so.... yeah

  • HappyChimp #3 3 years ago

    Picked up Fallout 2 for ~£3.50 via the beta a while back - site & download process works really well.

    Being able to use Paypal and having no DRM is a win - not having the time to actually play Fallout 2 isn't :)

  • neilka #4 3 years ago

    Can I have my ISA back please, KingOfIceland?

  • FooAtari #5 3 years ago

    GoG is pretty awesome, how digital distribution should be done. I really hope it's a success and more publishers sign up.

  • eddiep #6 3 years ago

    Been there, bought too many games already :)
    Someone should open up a time shop, I'd really like to buy some spare time...

  • Shrui #7 3 years ago

    oooh, was just thinking about MDK the other day as well!

  • TheMoonRat #8 3 years ago

    Giants was supposed to be a very funny game, and a couple of old Shiney games look tempting at that price point too. Fantastic idea for a website, hope it succeeds and gets more games on there!

  • JDT_JDT #9 3 years ago

    The problem with this is that it seems to fall into a gap (at least for me).
    There are retro games I want to play again, but I already bought them. I can either dig them up, or even if I can't, I'll feel bad about buying them again. Nostalgia plays a big part in retro games, so I'm unlikely to want to buy a game I've never played before.

    The only games I can see myself considering buying from here are those that maybe a friend owned when I was younger, but I didn't, and I also really liked. That's not very many.
    Edited by 1 at 24/10/08 @ 11:33

  • septimus #10 3 years ago

    Beta was good. Glad everyone can enjoy it. I really hope the site is a success.

  • Tyronne #11 3 years ago

    Used it and recommend it, finally got hold of the final bit of `redneck rampage` that I had been after and then forgot about years ago.

    and the prices are pretty damn good too.

  • rhubarbandcustard #12 3 years ago

    Stunning value.

    Sacrifice, Giants and Messiah to be downloaded tonight.

  • Bitkari #13 3 years ago

    It really is a great service, I can't recommend it highly enough!

  • UncleLou #14 3 years ago

    Now the all important question is:

    Is the Giants version the one with the BARE BREASTS, or the censored American one?

  • Thunderbolt #15 3 years ago

    LOL, the breasts in Giants are like the ones in God of War, nice but hardly erotic.

    I remember Giants as being an enjoyable game but very buggy. I'm not sure it aged very well

  • Lummox #16 3 years ago

    Saw that the site was open and immediately downloaded the Redneck Rampage collection - sort of like a Deep South version of Duke Nukem. For £3 (or thereabouts) you really can't go wrong.