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Posted July 12, 2012
GOG.com is extremely happy to tell you that while the <span class="bold">very successful "Battle of the Games"</span> has ended, our plans for an exciting summer have only just begun. Following the 66% off Alan Wake series promo, which will be over in two hours, we have prepared something indie fans will love. [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/release_promo_indie_drop]<span class="bold">Today, we&rsquo;re dropping four releases and dropping their prices a neat 50%.</span>

For the next 7 days, four great indie titles: Gemini Rue, DEFCON, Multiwinia, and Uplink are available 50% off. Gemini Rue is a tense, surprising, and challenging sci-fi point-and-click from the publishers of Resonance and the Blackwell Bundle. is a Global Thermonuclear War Simulation in which you prepare your military forces, and nuclear silos, make or break alliances with other superpowers, and finally, fire zee missiles! [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/multiwinia]Multiwinia is the multiplayer-focused (but not multiplayer-only) sequel to Darwinia, a fantastic RTS with simple game mechanics, but great strategic depth. Uplink is a hacker simulator--not your typical game, but strangely entertaining and believable.

Visit the Summer Indie Drop promo page to get DEFCON, Uplink, Gemini Rue, and Multiwinia for 50% off until Thursday, July 19 at 04:59 AM EDT.
Posted July 12, 2012
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Starmaker: And if GOG's version of Gemini Rue works on my Win7 x64 netbook, that's just icing on the cake.
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bazilisek: Is there a version of Gemini Rue that doesn't?
It was a bug of some kind in the first release of Gemini Rue.... it's long since been patched (and buggered up my save file in the process ¬_¬)
Posted July 12, 2012
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SimonG: How exactly is that praise for a company that wants our money? Honestly, I don't see people praising Amazon for releasing another 5 games today.
I did not praise GOG, I just said there's no reason to complain about a perceived lack of classic releases. Your comparison is hardly fair though - GOG is much more involved in the distribution process of a game than Amazon is.
Posted July 12, 2012
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adamzs: I did not praise GOG, I just said there's no reason to complain about a perceived lack of classic releases. Your comparison is hardly fair though - GOG is much more involved in the distribution process of a game than Amazon is.
Fair point.

But the involvement GOG takes into their releases has been demonstrated by Torchlight ...
Posted July 12, 2012
Damn! If these were the Linux releases I'd buy them Immediatly. Guess I'll have to get them from the developers directly, then :(
Posted July 12, 2012
The thing is, I don't really see these as "releases". They were not withheld. They were available for a click on the next website. I have them already because of that. If you wanted them, you had them already. Especially after the insane "because we may" bundle thing.

What I'm looking forward to, in GoG, is releases, in the sense of : games that I could not buy, or find, or run, anymore. Release as in : a new book published (or re-published), and not a book that the next shop is selling and that shop starts selling too. This is slightly redundant to me. It's nice when I prefer this shop (and I do prefer GoG, unless it's indie games, where I prefer the authors' own sites), because I can buy it from here instead of there. And when offered the choice, I prefer getting a game on GoG than gamersgate or -haha- steam. But still, when it's not a formerly unavailable game (even if just to me), these releases provoke a polite "oh" more than an enthousiastic "ah". So "meh".

Looking forward to "actual" releases. Like blitzkrieg, etc.
Posted July 12, 2012
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Fred_DM: Steam Summer Sale starting today, so you'll need all the money for that anyway.
Steam Summer ( and Christmas ) Sale sucks . Servers will be overloaded , you will have to wait for days if you want to download the game(s) you bought .
Posted July 12, 2012
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Fred_DM: Steam Summer Sale starting today, so you'll need all the money for that anyway.
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ne_zavarj: Steam Summer ( and Christmas ) Sale sucks . Servers will be overloaded , you will have to wait for days if you want to download the game(s) you bought .
Not if you choose some of the more obscure regions for download.
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Posted July 12, 2012
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Fred_DM: today's releases have been in indie bundles and Steam deals plenty of times. unless you're living under a rock, chances are you've already picked them up if you wanted them.
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mrkgnao: Not necessarily. I don't buy games from services that require me to be connected to the web to play or mandate a special client or downloader, so steam is nothing but vapour for me.
I'd agree that a game already being on Steam is no argument against celebrating its DRM-free release on GOG, but these four games have always been available DRM-free directly from the developers. Granted, you wouldn't support your favorite distributor GOG by purchasing them for the dev's websites, but you'd actually support the people who created them.

Not to say that they don't belong on GOG or that there's something wrong with being happy that they're here, just to explain why a lot of people aren't really excited about the "new" release.
Posted July 12, 2012
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Starmaker: And if GOG's version of Gemini Rue works on my Win7 x64 netbook, that's just icing on the cake.
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bazilisek: Is there a version of Gemini Rue that doesn't?
Both bundle versions and the wadjeteye demo (at least I didn't when I tried it). It's not a very good netbook, but it's better than any other currently sold in Russia by either Acer or Asus. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough - I feel guilty about bugging the devs when I have a perfectly serviceable gaming PC.
Posted July 12, 2012
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Profanity: Not if you choose some of the more obscure regions for download.
I wasn't talking about the content servers only .
Posted July 12, 2012
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Profanity: Not if you choose some of the more obscure regions for download.
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ne_zavarj: I wasn't talking about the content servers only .
Well, your whole point seemed to revolve around waiting longer than usual for games to download, so that's what I went with.
Posted July 12, 2012
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SimonG: But the involvement GOG takes into their releases has been demonstrated by Torchlight ...
Heh heh, yeah that was a bit of a mess.
Posted July 12, 2012
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Profanity: Well, your whole point seemed to revolve around waiting longer than usual for games to download, so that's what I went with.
I forgot the word : purchase .
Posted July 12, 2012
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Starmaker: Both bundle versions and the wadjeteye demo (at least I didn't when I tried it). It's not a very good netbook, but it's better than any other currently sold in Russia by either Acer or Asus. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough - I feel guilty about bugging the devs when I have a perfectly serviceable gaming PC.
Really? That's odd. I mean, it's an AGS game running at 320x200, that shouldn't be a problem for most calculators these days.
Posted July 12, 2012
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ne_zavarj: Steam Summer ( and Christmas ) Sale sucks . Servers will be overloaded , you will have to wait for days if you want to download the game(s) you bought .
right, because the point of a sale is to download your games immediately...
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