Nobody actually does it like GOG, the basic and DRM-free digital storefront that, up till at the moment, was owned by Witcher developer CD Projekt Crimson.
GOG all the time had you coated while you obtained an itch to play some outdated ’90s shooter that you just misplaced the CD key to way back. And based on its new proprietor, it has some large targets for subsequent yr and past with regards to increasing its library of basic video games.
Introduced at the moment, GOG will now be within the palms of Michal Kicinski. Kicinski is not some random go well with, nonetheless, he was a co-founder of GOG when it began in 2008 beneath CD Projekt Crimson—which he additionally co-founded.
All the things about GOG will keep the identical, together with the video games obtainable on the platform and everybody’s library of video games. Kicinski preached GOG’s aim of being a spot for “freedom, independence, and real management,” over the video games you personal within the announcement submit.
“This new chapter is about doubling down on that imaginative and prescient,” the submit reads. “We wish to do extra to protect the classics of the previous, have a good time standout video games of at the moment, and assist form the classics of tomorrow, together with new video games with actual retro spirit.”
It is also identified within the submit that GOG has plans to “undertake much more bold rescue missions in 2026 and 2027” that it’s going to element subsequent yr. Whether or not that is an growth of its in-house Home windows compatibility efforts with the Preservation Program or one thing else stays to be seen.
The submit additionally confirms that CD Projekt Crimson’s relationship with GOG will proceed and its current and upcoming video games will nonetheless present up on the platform. That is additionally a welcome reassurance that the studio’s current take care of Epic Video games for the Witcher 4 would not embrace Epic Video games Retailer exclusivity or something like that.
Whereas the plans are to primarily embrace basic video games and classic-styled video games, it’s going to even be attention-grabbing to see if GOG can even embrace being a secure haven for video games which can be rejected from different storefronts. Valve and Epic Video games just lately banned psychological horror recreation Horses from their platforms for breaking their guidelines on inappropriate content material regardless of the developer’s claims that nothing within the recreation was in opposition to the foundations. Horses launched with no hitch on GOG and shortly shot up the listing of top-selling video games. Despite the fact that there aren’t a ton of video games popping out like Horses, GOG’s insistence on giving customers the liberty to personal any video games they need might assist it develop into a house for outsider artwork that does not match on the large platforms.
