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Posted September 27, 2013
Birthday Bullfrog Bonus Bonanza!

GOG.com 5th birthday celebration continues and we have some more gifts for you! This time, it's a nice pack of add-ons to the classic Bullfrog Productions titles in our EA catalog. There's plenty of previously not included content being added as you read this to five prominent Bullfrog games. If you bought them them previously, the updated versions will become available to you shortly. If you don't yet have those memorable classics in your collection, now you have some extra incentive to get them. Let's see what games get the Level-up treatment today, shall we?

Syndicate receives the American Revolt mission pack taking the future corporate executive work to a whole new level of awesome, thus becoming Syndicate Plus. Similarly, the fantasy underworld management game, Dungeon Keeper, becomes Dungeon Keeper Gold, with extra added evil in the form of the Deeper Dungeons expansion. Hidden Worlds have been discovered in the Arabian desert, making Magic Carpet into Magic Carpet Plus. now invites you to the <i>Promised Lands</i> filled with new challenges, and [url=http://www.gog.com/game/populous_the_beginning]Populous: The Beginning has yet some Undiscovered Worlds in store for you.

That's it! Five excellent, content-filled expansions await you in our classic Bullfrog titles. Again, if you bought any of these titles previously, you should now have access to the newly extended version without any additional fee. Have fun!
Posted September 27, 2013
Excellent, this is great news.

As another commenter stated big hug to EA and GOG. Might I add a manly kiss on the cheek and a squeeze of the buttocks as my affection for you guys knows no bounds tonight ;P . Luckily I've had a lot to drink so I won't remember it come the morning.

If it makes you feel better you can pick someone to receive such honours.


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I think I may have killed any chances of future expansions :)
Post edited September 27, 2013 by deonast
Posted September 27, 2013
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Hillsy_: Oooh crikey, I didn't know. Back in a jiffy :) Thanks for the heads up. Off to buy Alpha Centauri :)
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keeveek: If you're wondering, Wing Commander games got their expansions as well ;-)

If I'm not mistaken, now every EA game has it's expansion added, free of charge.
Oh no, a double whammy :) Off to check out Wing Commander... Thanks keeveek :)
Posted September 27, 2013
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serpantino: Edit: Also does this mean that Dungeon Keeper is no longer the inferior DOS version?
What's actually inferior about the DOS version? I didn't have either version as a child so I have no idea.
Posted September 27, 2013
Thanks for all the new content! i just happened to own all those games here so this is a nice surprise today. I just finished downloading all the new goodness. :D
Posted September 27, 2013
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Hillsy_: Oh no, a double whammy :) Off to check out Wing Commander... Thanks keeveek :)
Seriously, how could you miss this? o_0
Posted September 27, 2013
Thanks to EA and GOG!
Posted September 27, 2013
Excellent news! Thank you for the expansions/update love! Would it be too much to ask though to add the 'updated' flag to these games? Not seeing any of them on my 'new and updated' though haven't tried the manual account refresh yet so don't know if it's just a problem with the notifications on my account being delayed.
Posted September 27, 2013
What an awesome day this is at GOG. Two great new adventure game releases AND expansions added as a bonus to a bunch of games. That's amazing!

Now if you guys could only add the expansion to Alpha Centauri I could die a happy man.
Posted September 27, 2013
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mrking58: Damn you GOG I should be working not playing.

Been playing deeper dungeons and I must say I am smarter then I was then when I was 10
^ I too have found that replaying games particularly of a strategy vein are much easier now than when I played the originals. Other games though I've found that I've no longer got the patience to try something 50 times to get it right (I hate checkpoint save systems because of this!).
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adamzs: What an awesome day this is at GOG. Two great new adventure game releases AND expansions added as a bonus to a bunch of games. That's amazing!

Now if you guys could only add the expansion to Alpha Centauri I could die a happy man.
It does!
- Includes the Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire expansion.
from http://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri

Didn't have the expansion when I originally got it here on GOG; but, it was added later.
Post edited September 27, 2013 by BlueKronos
Posted September 27, 2013
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BlueKronos: It does!

- Includes the Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire expansion.
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BlueKronos: from http://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_alpha_centauri

Didn't have the expansion when I originally got it here on GOG; but, it was added later.
Wow, thanks! I didn't know that! The guys at GOG have a really sneaky way of giving out stuff for free. :)

That's really awesome, thanks again!
Posted September 27, 2013
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timppu: Windows version has Direct3D support which makes things look "smoother" (ie. very fuzzy) instead of pixellated in the first-person view, but in the main mode
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keeveek: I always wonder why anyone would prefer smoothed up barf instead of pixelated glory. I am serious, for me early 3dfx / d3d textures look horribly and I always choose the pixels over the multicolour mess.

For example, this:

http://stiggyblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/sr.jpg

looks 100 times better than this:

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/b8OGpwMj-RY/maxresdefault.jpg
I concur with both of you. I think the DOS mode looks much better for many of those era games. I liken it to console hardware, in a console life cycle the developers get to know how to best make use of it at the end of a console's lifetime sometimes making the older versions look better than the next gen console version if released for more than one. I think the same holds true here, at the end of the DOS era developers knew how to get the most out of what they had to work with, whereas the D3D was just in it's infancy. Yes D3D has more potential bells and whistles but that doesn't mean that a game with D3D early in it's life cycle makes use of those or not without sacrificing something else.
Posted September 27, 2013
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deonast: As another commenter stated big hug to EA and GOG. Might I add a manly kiss on the cheek and a squeeze of the buttocks as my affection for you guys knows no bounds tonight ;P . Luckily I've had a lot to drink so I won't remember it come the morning.
Man, never before was I so glad, not being drinking my coffee, while reading a comment - or else my Laptop would be a caffeine-dripping mess right now. ;o)

PS: thank you both, EA and GOG.com!
Posted September 27, 2013
I still wish you'd swap the horrible Syndicate box art for the (much superior) one us Europeans know and love...
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Post edited September 27, 2013 by Optimaximal
Posted September 27, 2013
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mrking58: Damn you GOG I should be working not playing.

Been playing deeper dungeons and I must say I am smarter then I was then when I was 10
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BlueKronos: ^ I too have found that replaying games particularly of a strategy vein are much easier now than when I played the originals. Other games though I've found that I've no longer got the patience to try something 50 times to get it right (I hate checkpoint save systems because of this!).
For me it depends on what mood I am in. I was just playing deeper dungeons and the game crashed soi had to do the last 10 mins again. Worth it because I just beat the level I tried beating all those years ago
Posted September 27, 2013
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Hillsy_: Oh no, a double whammy :) Off to check out Wing Commander... Thanks keeveek :)
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Gaunathor: Seriously, how could you miss this? o_0
haha! yes well...my birthday was on the 21st of the same month so I may have been elsewhere, I just don't remember where :) Thanks for the link though, Privateer Righteous Fire too. Off to check Privateer... :)
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