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  • CD Projekt RED Announces GOG, The Witcher 2 For Mac,

    CD Projekt RED, the Polish developer behind The Witcher series and the Good Old Games (gog.com) online store today held its big announcement event celebrating 4 years of GOG.

    The majority of the event revolved around the day’s biggest announcement that GOG will now be offering many of its games on Mac OS. Starting today, 50 GOG games are available, 28 of which have never been available for Mac before. GOG is well-known for offering older PC games from the 80s and 90s as well as offering all of their games without any digital rights management (DRM).

    One of the games that will be offered for Mac is CD Projekt RED’s latest hit RPG The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition. The title is now available via GOG or Steam, and is being offered for only $22.49 for the next 48 hours. The Witcher Enhanced Edition is also being made available during that time for $5. Customers who already own The Witcher 2 for will be given access to a copy for Mac

    In fact, all of Mac games offered on GOG, including The Witcher 2, will be hybrid, meaning customers will get both the PC version and the Mac version for one price. Also, the games will not have any DRM, allowing customers to use and copy the games as they see fit.

    A native OS X downloader app was released to coincide with the announcement, allowing Mac users to speed the download of their purchased titles.

    As a celebration of GOG’s 4th birthday, the company has teamed up with Interplay to offer dozens of classic titles in an “indie bundle” format. For a limited time, customers on GOG will be able to pay whatever they want for 8 Interplay games, including Shattered Steel, Screamer, and Evolva. Customers paying over the average will get 20 Interplay games, including Descent 3, Earthworm Jim 3D, and Fallout. Those paying $35 will get all 32 Interplay games available through GOG, including Fallout 2, Fallout: Tactics, Descent 1 &2, and Earthworm Jim 1&2. The total collection comes with tons of extra goodies, such as soundtracks, manuals, wallpapers, The Fallout Bible, and more.

  • Time Running Out For The Witcher and The Witcher 2 Backups

    CD Projekt RED, the Polish developer behind The Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings have announced that gamers without an activation key for the games have only 10 days left to claim their digital backup of the games from GOG.com. For those gamers who do have their activation key, the backup program will continue for “the foreseeable future.”

    CD Projekt RED has also announced that the price for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has been lowered to $40 in territories that pay in U.S. Dollars. This excludes the U.K., Australia, and E.U. countries, but the company has stated that its “Fair Price Package” has been updated to give gamers a “fair value for their money no matter where they live.”

    The backup program was started to give fans of The Witcher series a DRM-free copy of the games, along with extra content such as wallpapers, videos, and artbooks. So far, CD Project RED claims to have given away more than 3 million backup copies of the game. Gamers without a product key for either game were able to receive their backup copy by undergoing a “manual” verification of their game purchase. That is the part of the program that will be ending as of June 31.

    Last month CD Projekt RED announced that it is currently developing a video game based on the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper roleplaying game (RPG). The game is slated to be a non-linear RPG set in a brutal futuristic world inspired by William Gibson and Phillip K. Dick.

  • Good Old Games Lets Users Vote For Summer Sales

    Good Old Games (GOG), which claims to be the fastest-growing online distributor of DRM-free games, is having a summer sale, and it’s allowing players to vote on which games will receive the biggest discounts. In addition to the sale, GOG is giving away Worlds of Ultima 1 and 2 for free. GOG is best known for selling older PC titles and indie games.

    Called “Battle of the Games,” the summer promotion will allow players to vote for one of two games. The highest voted game at the end of the day will be discounted 60% for 24 hours, while the runner-up will be discounted 40% for 24 hours. Two new games will be up for voting each day between June 19 and July 5. Though GOG is keeping secret the games that will be voted on in the future, the company did mention that Psychonauts, The Witcher, and Broken Sword: Director’s Cut would be up for voting during the promotion.

    The first two games are already up for a vote on the GOG website. The first “Battle of the Games” is between Myst: Masterpiece Edition and The 7th Guest. It appears, so far, that Myst: Masterpiece Edition (which is the original Myst with better graphics) will be discounted 60% tomorrow, meaning players will be able to download the game for only $2.40.

    In addition to the “Battle of the Games,” GOG is giving away copies of Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire and Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams. These games, released in the early 90s, were part of the Ultima series that helped shape what western RPGs have become. So, if you are tired of big-budget games that leave you unsatisfied, GOG looks to be the place to go for some nostalgia gaming this summer.