Rule the World With New Strategy Classics at GOG.com
Sporting an intense single-player campaign and online multiplayer action, Empire Earth: Gold Edition [http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/ground_control_expansion], the 2001 Game of the Year-winning RTS that takes players from the prehistoric era to the dark reaches of space.
"This deal with Rebellion is awesome for strategy fans," said Tom Ohle, vice president of marketing at GOG.com. "If you've been big into PC strategy games in the past ten years you'll remember a lot of these games fondly - Ground Control was an incredible game from Heroes of Might and Magic [http://www.massive.se/]... it's just a lot of variety and quality within the strategy genre."
The new additions boost GOG's catalog to almost 130 games from more than 20 different partners, Ohle said, including many well-known hits that are enjoying resurgent popularity with a new audience. "Obviously a lot of people have bought the Beneath a Steel Sky [http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout] and the other free titles we have are kicking ass too."
"We have a 'Baldur's Gate [http://www.gog.com/en/wanted/].
"That being said, we really want to give people all the classic PC games they can get, so we're reaching out to a lot of publishers and going after titles that we feel would really interest our users," Ohle added. "We have some personal dream games we're close to bringing on board, and... uhh... yeah, I probably shouldn't say much more than that. I fear the wrath of our team in Poland."
Like all GOG releases, the Rebellion games will be available entirely DRM-free and Ohle expressed hope that other publishers would also give up on the idea of intrusive and ultimately futile copy protection schemes in the future. "Gamers are constantly expressing their displeasure with intrusive DRM - or really any protection that gets in the way of them enjoying their games however they want," he said. "A lot of publishers are taking note of that and easing up on DRM, but there's still a long way to go."
Ground Control ($5.99) and Evil Genius ($9.99) are available now, while Lords of Magic and Empire Earth will follow in the coming weeks. Have a look at GOG's Rebellion catalog [http://www.gog.com/en/search/sort/publisher/Rebellion], and get ready to rule the world!
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Rebellion [http://www.gog.com] to add four more PC classics to its stable in a deal that GOG Vice President Tom Ohle says is "awesome for strategy fans."Sporting an intense single-player campaign and online multiplayer action, Empire Earth: Gold Edition [http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/ground_control_expansion], the 2001 Game of the Year-winning RTS that takes players from the prehistoric era to the dark reaches of space.
"This deal with Rebellion is awesome for strategy fans," said Tom Ohle, vice president of marketing at GOG.com. "If you've been big into PC strategy games in the past ten years you'll remember a lot of these games fondly - Ground Control was an incredible game from Heroes of Might and Magic [http://www.massive.se/]... it's just a lot of variety and quality within the strategy genre."
The new additions boost GOG's catalog to almost 130 games from more than 20 different partners, Ohle said, including many well-known hits that are enjoying resurgent popularity with a new audience. "Obviously a lot of people have bought the Beneath a Steel Sky [http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout] and the other free titles we have are kicking ass too."
"We have a 'Baldur's Gate [http://www.gog.com/en/wanted/].
"That being said, we really want to give people all the classic PC games they can get, so we're reaching out to a lot of publishers and going after titles that we feel would really interest our users," Ohle added. "We have some personal dream games we're close to bringing on board, and... uhh... yeah, I probably shouldn't say much more than that. I fear the wrath of our team in Poland."
Like all GOG releases, the Rebellion games will be available entirely DRM-free and Ohle expressed hope that other publishers would also give up on the idea of intrusive and ultimately futile copy protection schemes in the future. "Gamers are constantly expressing their displeasure with intrusive DRM - or really any protection that gets in the way of them enjoying their games however they want," he said. "A lot of publishers are taking note of that and easing up on DRM, but there's still a long way to go."
Ground Control ($5.99) and Evil Genius ($9.99) are available now, while Lords of Magic and Empire Earth will follow in the coming weeks. Have a look at GOG's Rebellion catalog [http://www.gog.com/en/search/sort/publisher/Rebellion], and get ready to rule the world!
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