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Score big, win one of three free games!

Jul 03, 2009

Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned pinball showdown to celebrate the weekend and our great pinball promo? For the next week we'll be accepting submissions in the Pro Pinball Fantastic Journey high score competition! All you have to do to enter -- in addition to owning a copy of the game here at GOG.com -- is send a screenshot of your highest score to users@gog.com. Next Friday at noon EDT we'll award the top 3 scores with a free game of their choice from the GOG.com catalogue! Pinball wizards, let's see what you've got -- there's no limit to the number of times you can enter (though you can only win once)! If you don't own Pro Pinball Fantastic Journey yet, you're in luck -- it's just $4.79 as part of this weekend's pinball promo!

Pinball Weekend Promotion

Jul 03, 2009

You can't stand the sticky floor and weird smell in the arcade? Or maybe you've spent a fortune on tokens trying to beat your friend's high score?

You won't have to demonstrate uber-human powers to keep the ball on the table in fear you'll lose your last token. Now you can have an arcade at your computer for cheap! This weekend, until Monday, July 6 at 11:59 p.m. EDT, we're giving you a 20% discount on all pinball games available on GOG.com! Grab Pure Pinball 2.0 Redux and Pro Pinball series including Timeshock, Big Race USA and Fantastic Journey for $4.79 each! It's not a bundle promotion, so you will receive the 20% discount if you buy one, two, three or all four games! Check out the promo page for details.

New releases: Crystals of Arborea and Ishar III

Jul 02, 2009

Warm tear to you RPG fans. Now is a time for great rejoicing! Starting right now our Ishar compilation is complete, featuring all four games of the series. And to make the news even better, the price remains the same - just $5.99! This also means that if you already purchased the Ishar 1+2 pack, now you can download all four games with no extra charge.

Both games are first-person perspective role-playing games, which let you create a party and live out a solid storyline in a 3D fantasy world. Crystals of Arborea is the first part of the Ishar series, featuring characters some of you may recall from Ishar 1 and 2. The main protagonist, Jarel, and his companions must find three crystals to rediscover the flooded world of Arborea. Ishar 3, on the other hand, sees the party traveling through time, with consqeuences immediately visible in the timeline's relative present and future. Their quest - to save the world from an evil dragon's dark ambitions, before the Great Conjunction.

New release: Personal Nightmare

Jul 02, 2009

You wanted old, so you've got it - the oldest game in GOG's catalog to date, and the precursor to the acclaimed Elvira series - Personal Nightmare.

Personal Nightmare is a first-person perspective adventure game by Horrorsoft, also known as Adventure Soft. In this game you're placed in the shoes of a young man who left his home village some time ago, and recently received a letter inviting him to visit. Concerned about the strange form in which the letter was written, he returns to the village, only to find out his father, the local pastor, is nowhere to be found and the whole place is nothing like he remembered, with everyone acting strange, sometimes even hostile. Soon he finds out there's evil at work there and he not only has to find his father, but also proof about what is really going on in the village.

Affiliate spotlight: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Jul 01, 2009

This week we'd like to introduce to you one helluva PC gaming site: Rock, Paper, Shotgun. They're all about PC games, so don't count on any console stuff.

RPS is all about PC games and it’s written by four of Britain’s top games journalists, who earned their journalistic and gaming experience with UK's best magazines, newspapers and websites. It aims to cover everything related to PC gaming from big releases to esoterica from the format’s obscurest peninsulas. The guys from RPS were among the first to conduct an interview with GOG.com staff and showed the service to the world. So if you're not familiar with RPS, click on the link and enjoy your stay there - we guarantee you won't regret it! You can also follow RPS on Twitter.

GOG.com list: editorials

Jul 01, 2009

Take a look behind the scenes to see how some of the best PC games of all time were made. We've put together a convenient list of all GOG.com editorials/retrospectives that have been posted.

From the very beginning of GOG.com we wanted to be something more than just a digital distribution outlet with old games. Our goal was to create a community of people who share the same passion for classic PC games. You may not have realized that we've worked with some great video game journalists to publish a number of retrospective articles to show off the development process of some of the best games of all time. Hit the jump to find links to all editorials that have been released on GOG.com.

New release: The Pandora Directive

Jun 30, 2009

Time to put on your well-tailored trench coat, brimmed hat and, of course, your favorite white sneakers. The hard-boiled detective is on another case and needs your help.

The Pandora Directive is the fourth installment of the awesome Tex Murphy series. As can be expected from a game with such an acclaimed pedigree, you'll find an involving story which is guaranteed to keep you glued to your chair, topped with some dark humor and well-designed puzzles. Like its predecessor, this game proves that games featuring FMV sequences can boast some good acting skills, which was extremely rare in other such games of the time. This time our favorite P.I. is hired by a Gordon Fitzpatrick to find his friend, Thomas Malloy. But, as always, there is more to this case than meets the eye...

Community update

Jun 27, 2009

Check out these threads for a glimpse of what was going on in the Community section last week:

Favorite Films - The Last One You Saw - Recommendations by Romulus,
Funny videos (revived) by lukaszthegreat,
RTS games for someone who hates base-building? by Mentalepsy,
Top 10 BEST Games of All Time (revived) by Vagabond,
Review Contest update by GOG.com,
Twitter giveaway is back! by GOG.com,

Weekend promotion: SpellForce Platinum + The Guild Gold pack

Jun 26, 2009

This weekend, together with JoWooD, we invite you to visit the fantasy and beautiful world of EO in SpellForce and go back in time to 15th century Europe in The Guild for a small price of $13.98!

Until Monday, June 29 at 11:59 p.m. EDT, you can grab the SpellForce Platinum + The Guild Gold bundle with a 30% discount - that's just $13.98 for both games! To receive the discount just buy both games in one order. To do so, place both games in your cart or simply click here, before proceeding to payment. If you already own one of the games you'll receive a $3.00 discount for the other one. For more details on this sweet deal, please refer to the promo page.

Affiliate spotlight: DOSBox

Jun 25, 2009

Today we're launching the first GOG.com Affiliate Spotlight, showing off some of the sites that are helping out GOG.com and supporting classic games. The first partner we'd like to show some love to is DOSBox.com!

DOSBox is a freely available, cross platform emulator that allows you to run DOS programs. A number of games at GOG.com run on DOSBox software, and we couldn't be more thankful for that. The first version of the emulator appeared on Sourceforge when Harekiet and Qbix decided to make it open source. Just a year ago, Qbix announced that the DOSBox emulator had been downloaded 10 million times! We've taken this opportunity to ask Qbix some questions about DOSBox and GOG.com - read on to check out the interview, and be sure to visit their site!