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GOG: Not Just Good Old Games Anymore

GOG: Not Just Good Old Games Anymore

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The name of CDProjekt’s digital marketplace, GOG, carries special significance. It’s a palindrome, yes, but also an acronym: one that has always stood for “Good Old Games,” as those were the sorts of digital wares the site hawked. Everything, save CDProjekt Red’s own The Witcher 2, was available for under ten dollars, with few offerings from this millennium, much less the past few years.

As of this week, that has changed. Rolling out a new homepage with a more visual format, GOG now offers more recent releases, such as Trine and Machinarium, alongside its growing stable of PC classics. In particular, the site has a pre-order offer for upcoming, old-school, dungeon-crawler The Legend of Grimrock, which will be out April 11 for $14.99 (or $11.99, if one pre-orders).



The website’s curators offer their assurances that, even with these new titles available, GOG will continue to provide only DRM-free software. Our question, though, remains: what are they planning to do about the name?

By Shelby Reiches

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