Nordic's Catalog Returns to GOG for "In-N-Out" Sale

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Nordic's Catalog Returns to GOG for "In-N-Out" Sale


Nordic Games and GOG are teaming up for a weekend promotion slashing prices on the publisher's product.

Back in September, GOG's game catalog took <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/137111-GOG-is-Launching-a-Sale-on-35-Games-Leaving-its-Catalog-This-September>a bit of a hit when Nordic Games pulled its library from the site's virtual shelves. In response, GOG held a "Last Chance Special" aimed at giving its customers a final opportunity to purchase DRM-free copies of exiting games before they disappeared. It would now seem, however, that that this "last chance" wasn't as final as the digital distributor had been expecting. As of today, Nordic's games are returning to GOG for a weekend promotion that will give GOG-devotees another chance to add the publisher's games to their collections.

Dubbed the "Nordic In-N-Out" promotion, the new sale will last four days and offer discounts ranging between 75 and 85 percent. GOG is also offering a whopping 90 percent off to anyone who purchases the entire Nordic catalog all in one shot. Included among the discounted games are a variety of titles from diverse genres. RPG fans might want to invest in the Gothic series. Shooter and RTS aficionados, meanwhile, might be interested in picking up Painkiller: Black Edition and the Spellforce games.

While this promotion, on its own, is pretty nifty, we can't help but wonder if this could also be a hint that <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/nordic%20games?os=nordic+games>Nordic and <a href=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/tag/view/gog>GOG might be moving back toward a more permanent working relationship. We've reached out to GOG to see if they can offer any comments. Regardless of what they say however, we'd highly recommend you take a look at the games <a href=http://www.gog.com/news/weekend_promo_nordic_innout>in this sale. After all, if this does wind up being "In-N-Out" as the promotion suggests, there's no telling when you'll get another chance to pick up Nordic's games DRM-free.

Source: <a href=http://www.gog.com/news/weekend_promo_nordic_innout>GOG


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You know, this sale has nothing I want that I don't already own, but I really appreciate that they have a filter for "games you don't already own."
 

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Regarding Painkiller:

I used to have a physical copy of the game years ago, but I got rid of it due to inconsistent game speed. It had to do with my computer being a dual-core system and the game only supporting single core machines.

Does anyone know if GOG optimized the digital version for multi-core systems to avoid this problem?
 
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Neverhoodian said:
Regarding Painkiller:

I used to have a physical copy of the game years ago, but I got rid of it due to inconsistent game speed. It had to do with my computer being a dual-core system and the game only supporting single core machines.

Does anyone know if GOG optimized the digital version for multi-core systems to avoid this problem?
Seemed to run fine on my i5. Although it did have a bunch of other little issues related to being a 10 year old game, some can be ironed out with a third party patch fortunately.
 

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Neverhoodian said:
Regarding Painkiller:

I used to have a physical copy of the game years ago, but I got rid of it due to inconsistent game speed. It had to do with my computer being a dual-core system and the game only supporting single core machines.

Does anyone know if GOG optimized the digital version for multi-core systems to avoid this problem?
I have personally ran the Steam version of the game on an Intel Core-Duo 2200 (or something like that), an i7 940, and an i7 3930K with no problem so I am assuming it might be a patched/patchable issue. Did you ever try and update your copy?


OT: I might have shown some interest had I not spent 30 dollars on 19 games on steam.

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