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EA Classics Now On the GOG.com DRM Free Store

Post by Dan @ 09:20am 03/06/11 | 7 Comments

GOG.com, the Poland-based online retailer of DRM-free "good old games" have today announced another significant addition to their selection: the classic games of publishing giant Electronic Arts.

During parent company CD Projekt's Summer Conference, GOG revealed that Wing Commander: Privateer, Dungeon Keeper and Ultima Underworld 1+2 can now be purchased from their site and Crusader: No Remorse, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Magic Carpet are due to follow soon.

Answering the question that we're all thinking, GOG was also quick to make the following concession

While the agreement between Electronic Arts and GOG.com brings back many acclaimed and well known franchises, it doesn’t include the much anticipated System Shock or Syndicate series at this time. After releasing the first six Electronic Arts classics, GOG.com will take a break from the concentrated awesome until later in the summer.

So no Syndicate or System Shock for now unfortunately, but all of the others (as all games on GOG.com are) will be free of any form of invasive copy-protection and configured to run correctly on modern PCs.

Check out the full press release, watch the trailer below (click here for HD) or head over to GOG.com for more information.

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Hogfather
Posted 09:24am 03/6/11

Wing Commander: Privateer (available now for $5.99 USD), one of the famous Origin Systems productions, is a spin-off of the acclaimed Wing Commander space flight simulator series.

Oh fuck!

Although a 320x200 resolution, 256 colour game may not have aged so well haha ><

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Dan
Posted 09:40am 03/6/11

Re System Shock and Syndicate, my (completely and utterly speculative) guess would be that EA has some future plans for both franchises so might want to hold off on re-releases of the classic games until they can be used to help promote new ones.

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BladeHunter
Posted 09:43am 03/6/11

Re System Shock and Syndicate, my (completely and utterly speculative) guess would be that EA has some future plans for both franchises so might want to hold off on re-releases of the classic games until they can be used to help promote new ones.

God I would love a new Syndicate game :)

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blokey
Posted 10:36am 03/6/11

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blokey
Posted 10:38am 03/6/11

Stupid iPhone. Agreed I was thinking a couple of months ago how seriously cool the game was and would love to see a reincarnation. Still remember fondly my dudes running around in trenchcoats with flamethrowers. Ahh those were the days.

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deus
Posted 11:53am 03/6/11

I'm sure another Syndicate game would be eagerly anticipated if it were announced, more so with a rerelease of the classics as a bundle to whet the appetite, bring on the trenchcoats!

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