CD Projekt Reiterates its Hate for DRM

September 30, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The Witcher series developer CD Projekt is reiterating its long-held position on the use of digital rights management software in its games. In a new interview with IGN discussing DRM and DLC related to its upcoming RPG sequel The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red 's Michal Platkow-Gilewski said it is as vehemently against using DRM in its products as when it first started making games.

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Humble Mobile Bundle 7 Offers Nine Android Games for Cheap

September 17, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The latest Humble Mobile Bundle, Humble Mobile Bundle 7, offers nine Android games for as little as $5. Those willing to pay at least a buck can score The Tiny Bang Story, Color Zen Premium Color Zen Premium, Heroes of Loot Heroes of Loot, along with the soundtracks to all three games.

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Super Podcast Action Committee Episode 112 - Hulu Hate

September 1, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

If you missed Saturday's live broadcast of Super Podcast Action Committee (Episode 112), you can watch the video replay on YouTube or download it below.

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GOG.com's 'Last Chance' Promotional Sale

August 28, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com is removing over 30 games from its catalog in a little over 40 days and it wants those who don't own them to score them while they can by offering an 80 percent off limited time discount. After the sale is up the games will be removed from the catalog, according to GOG.com.

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GOG.Com Now Offering DRM-Free Movies

August 27, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Expanding on its commitment of providing DRM-free PC games for Mac, Linux and Windows to the masses, GOG.com has announced that it has begun offering DRM-free movies today. At launch the site is offering 22 DRM-free movies - all currently under $10.

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Humble Weekly Bundle Offers Seven Strategy Games for $9 or More

June 19, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The latest Humble Weekly Bundle, the Humble Weekly Strategy Bundle, offers seven games worth $114 for $9 or more. Pay what you want for Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, Stronghold Crusader HD, and Cubetractor (none of these games are available for Mac or Linux, and all must be redeemed via Steam).

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GOG.com Launches ' 2014 DRM-Free Summer Sale

June 13, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Getting a jump on Valve and its annual Summer Steam Sales, GOG.com has launched its own summer sale. The 2014 DRM-Free Summer Sale features giveaways, flash deals, daily bundle deals and at least 50 percent off on over 700 PC games. Some of the many games on sale have discounts as high as 90 percent off, but this special pricing is time limited.

Games getting deep discounts include The Witcher 2, Papers Please, Painkiller Black Edition, Shadowrun Returns, Wizardry 6 & 7 bundle, the Kentucky Route Zero seasons pass, UFO Aftershock, and a whole lot more.

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GOG.com Announces DRM-Free Platform Agnostic Multiplayer Client, The Witcher 3 Pre-Order Details

June 5, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com today unveiled what it calls an "optional client" to facilitate cross play multiplayer regardless of where you buy a game from. The client software, which the company says is "DRM-free" in theory will allow those who buy games from services like Steam to play their game in Galaxy without the need for logging into a service with a user account.

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GOG.com Considers The Idea of an 'Early Access Program'

May 19, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

In an article over at Eurogamer this morning, Marcin Iwinski, co-founder of CD Projekt, said that GOG is considering an Early Access program similar to Steam, but it would be quite different in a lot of ways. One of those ways is that not all games would be able to get on the service.

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Humble Weekly Bundle Sale Offers Seven Games for $10

April 17, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

The latest Humble Weekly Bundle Sale is presented by the folks at Devolver Digital, and offers three games for whatever you want to pay. Those games are The Real Texas, Cryptic Sea EP, and Dungeon Hearts, available DRM-free for Windows, Mac and Linux. If you pay $6 or more, you'll also receive Foul Play, Legend of Dungeon and KRUNCH Digital Collector's Edition. KRUNCH Digital Collector's Edition comes with exclusive comic.

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GOG.com Adds Mac OS X and Language Support for Select Games

April 17, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com has added language support for a number of titles in its catalog, along with support for Mac OS X on select titles. For starters all of the classic Infinity Engine role-playing games from Hasbro are available for Mac OS X.

Now Mac owners can play such games as Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga, Baldur's Gate 2 Complete, Icewind Dale Complete, Icewind Dale 2 Complete, and Planescape: Torment. Mac users can also run and the cool D&D classic, Temple of Elemental Evil.

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Poll: How Should GOG Handle Regional Pricing?

March 13, 2014 - Andrew Eisen

A couple weeks ago, Good Old Games announced that it would be instituting regional pricing (some regions would pay more or less for the same title than other regions) for titles it otherwise wouldn't be able to make available on its digital distribution platform.

The decision was not popular.

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GOG.com Apologizes for Regional Pricing Scheme, Promises Flat Rates Across All Regions

March 11, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com has made a very public apology for trying to institute regional pricing, calling it a big mistake and saying that it will find ways - even if it costs the company money out of its own pocket - to make sure that everyone in every region pays the same amount of money for its catalog of DRM-free PC, Mac, and Linux games.

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GOG.com Shows You The Love With Free Dungeon Keeper

February 14, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com is celebrating Valentine's Day with a sale and a special gift to gamers to show how much they love us. The gift is a free copy of Dungeon Keeper Gold (which includes the Deeper Dungeons expansion pack), which you can simply grab by visiting gog.com and logging in to your account (yes you'll need to have a GOG.com account to get it). In addition to the free game (courtesy of EA), you can also get the sequel, Dungeon Keeper 2, for the wonderful rock-bottom price of $1.49 in GOG.com's Valentine's Day sale.

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Report: South Park: The Stick of Truth Will Not Use Ubisoft's uPlay

February 5, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Some good news for fans of the RPG being developed by Obsidian and South Park Studios: It will be a Steam game and will not use Ubisoft's uPlay DRM. Responding to a question about whether the game would require uPlay to be installed in order to play, Obsidian Entertainment's official twitter account confirmed that the PC version of the game will not use Ubisoft's uPlay; instead it will be fully integrated into Steam.

The rights to publish the game were acquired by Ubisoft in an auction following the bankruptcy of its previous publisher THQ.

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GOG.com Customers Help Raise $1.9 Million for Charity in 2013

January 16, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com says that its customers helped raise $1.9 million for various charities in 2013. The DRM-free digital marketplace for classic and new PC games said that customers raised this money mostly through its first ever online charity event carried out in November 2013. The money is being split up between several charities including WWF, Worldbuilders, and Gaming for Good.

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GOG.com MD Talks About the Power of a DRM-Free Catalog

January 2, 2014 - GamePolitics Staff

Wired UK (by way of sister publication Ars Technica) offers an interesting and lengthy discussion with GOG.com managing director Guillaume Rambourg about digital rights management. Rambourg talks about DRM, anti-sales, and a whole lot more.

Rambourg starts out with GOG.com's origin story and how high levels of piracy in its home country of Poland inspired the founders to create a storefront that worried very little about DRM and put their focus instead on creating value that would convert those pirates into paying customers. Here's an excerpt:

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GOG.com Kicks Off Winter Sale With Free Fallout Games

December 12, 2013 - GamePolitics Staff

GOG.com has launched its "2013 DRM-Free Winter Sale, giving consumers deep discounts on many of the games in its DRM-free catalog, offering special pricing in three different random categories and giving away all of its Fallout games for FREE for the next 48 hours.

While many will head over to the site to get Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics for free, there are plenty of decent deals on old and new games in the GOG.com worth checking out.

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Shadowrun Returns, DRM-Free on GOG.com

December 10, 2013 - GamePolitics Staff

The crowd-funded cyberpunk-fantasy themed RPG adventure Shadowrun was well received when it was released in July of this year on Steam, but one complaint that came up here and there was that the game was not DRM-free. Harebrained Schemes recognized that some gamers prefer their PC games to be completely free of any digital rights management, and decided to work with GOG.com to release a new version for Windows and Mac OS X. Today that deal comes to fruition.

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TechnogeekIf the developer were male there wouldn't have been a "conversation" in the first place.10/19/2014 - 2:27am
Montetrolls are just at their absolute worst when it comes to women and feminist. You could bet good money that if the developer were male the trolls would be silent and the conversation would actually focus on the journalism.10/18/2014 - 9:18pm
MontePapa: Not the first time we've had a journalism scandals before, but the harassment never got close to this level; the difference with this scandal is that feminists are involved. Without the feminist angle, their would be A LOT less harrassment10/18/2014 - 9:15pm
Papa MidnightMonte: That's honestly rather short-sighted. As has been proven with other persons who have been targeted, if it wasn't Quinn, it would be someone else.10/18/2014 - 6:26pm
AvalongodI think that's part of what gives an esoteric news story like this real life...it taps into a larger narrative about misogyny in society outside of games.10/18/2014 - 3:29pm
Avalongod@Monte, well the trolls made death threats that came to police (and media attention). I think this is tapping into a larger issue outside of games about how women are treated in society (like all the "real rape" stuff during the last election)10/18/2014 - 3:28pm
WonderkarpZippy : Havent tried the PS4 controller. might later.10/18/2014 - 2:37pm
MonteSeirously, If Quinn was not involved and GG was instead about something like the Mordor Marketing contracts, the trolling would have never grown so vile and disgusting. There have been plenty of movements in the past that never sufferred from behavior..10/18/2014 - 1:57pm
MonteWe have seen scandel's before but the trolling has never been as vile as what we see with GG. Trolls usually have such a tiny voice you can barely notice them, but its like moths to a flame whenever femistist are involved.10/18/2014 - 1:53pm
ZippyDSMleeWonderkarp: You might be able to if you had a PS4 controller.10/18/2014 - 1:00pm
MaskedPixelantehttp://store.steampowered.com/app/327940/ Night Dive starts charging for freeware.10/18/2014 - 12:21pm
Matthew Wilsonthe sad thing is there are trolls on both sides of this. people need to stop acting like their side is so pure.10/18/2014 - 12:19pm
MechaTama31So, only speak out on a scandal that hasn't attracted trolls? I wouldn't hold my breath...10/18/2014 - 10:49am
MonteI feel like GG just needs to die. The movement is FAR to tainted by hatred and BS for it to be useful for any conversation. Let GG die, and then rally behind the NEXT gaming journalism scandal, and start the conversation fresh.10/18/2014 - 10:33am
quiknkoldand we dont have a Dovakin to call a cease fire10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
quiknkoldThe whole thing is Futile. Both sides are so buried deep in their trenchs that there isnt a conversation. Its just Finger Pointing, Name Calling, Doxxing, Threats. there needs to be a serious conversation, and GG isnt it.10/17/2014 - 7:37pm
quiknkoldI thought it was a good article. Jeff is right. I feel like GamerGate did destroy its message. I am for Ethics in game journalism, but man. so much hate. and its on both sides. I've seen some awful stuff spewed on twitter. Its a big reason why I exited..10/17/2014 - 7:34pm
Matthew Wilsonwhile he focused on gg, he did call out both sides crap.10/17/2014 - 7:18pm
Papa MidnightThat was a damn good read offered by Jeff Gertsmann.10/17/2014 - 7:17pm
Matthew Wilsonhttp://www.giantbomb.com/articles/letter-from-the-editor-10-17-2014/1100-5049/ deferentially a nice write up.10/17/2014 - 6:44pm
 

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