Good Old Games is gone. But GOG.com continues on. In light of their starting to take orders for more recent games, the words are gone from their name and only the acronym remains. This comes alongside their new frontpage, the news that they’ll be aiming to add three games a week instead of two, an improved downloader, and the addition of The Whispered World, Trine, and the soon-to-be-added Machinarium, Darwinia and Spacechem. Oh, and they’re taking pre-orders for the Dungeon Master inspired Legend Of Grimrock. So where does this leave their identity?

Clearly this pushes GOG further toward the larger crowd of digital distributors, now beginning to compete with newly launched games. And clearly the loss of the word “Old” from their name reflects their intention to sell new games, and newer games. And, I’d argue, the loss of “Good” does somewhat reflect that their selection process has perhaps not been entirely focused on bringing back only classic games. But the crucial thing, I think, is that they’re sticking by their previous mantra of no regional pricing, and no DRM. And in that light, the move is really interesting. Carrying more recently released games, but insisting that they sell nothing loaded with DRM, will be something to watch.

Also worth noting is the apparent addition of a new pricing level, with The Whispered World going for $14.99. At two years old, it’s slightly disappointing to see the game not dropping to $9.99 (although it currently costs $19.99/£14.99 on Steam). The new site has a bunch of new features, and the new downloader will apparently be faster, as well as download new extras and patches, and even alert you to PMs and forum replies.

Quite how many new games will be willing to launch via their service, unable to fiddle with regional pricing to gouge the Europeans/Australians etc, as is the wont of our lovely industry, will be interesting to note. The current plan is to wait a while after the initial release before selling more mainstream games, perhaps a year later, at a point where publishers may be happier to see the DRM gone. But this of course gives more sensibly-minded pubs the opportunity to avoid the web of Steam/Origin’s intrinsic DRM. Interesting stuff.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/27/good-old-games-gone-relaunches-as-gog-com/#more-101480

I wished VGC would look more like GOG. It has an excellent site design (old and new site).

I just checked my GOG collection: 33 games purchased, 54 on my wishlist...

Great that The Whispered World is now available on GOG. It will probably get more attention than on Steam. I hope Daedalic Entertainment release more of their games on GOG.

Legend of Grimrock looks interesting.

Easily among my favourite things in the past ten years, GOG is simply brilliant for consumers on all ends.

Good, good. Now whenever I feel like getting newer games digitally, I know where to go. Before, I didn't really like any other places because they all have DRM (yes, even Steam is DRM and pretty much not worth it for me in the case of newer, more expensive games). I just love GOG.

It's great to see that they're expanding into the territory of newer games, though I do prefer the old name.

Now, here's hoping they stay as awesome as they are now. Even the best of us can fall

Have you guys seen their new adverts? It's on their site, on the "news" sidebar.

They simply go for blood against Steam. Too bad the "new" new games are just indie stuff so far.
I was imagining big publishers DRM-free.

I think I will buy Legend of Grimrock on GOG, I have been looking forword to it for some time now and a nice DRM copy that also supports CD Projekt in a small way is a win, win, win scenario in my book.

Everybody called it GOG anyway

There pre-ordered
and I also pre-ordered Krater direct from Fatshark because I am a whore, I am going to be so broke when inXile call in that wasteland debt.

I love the site. i've bought over 20 games from them in the last year.