GOG are doing one of those things again! SOMA's currently free, and Fantasy Generals is basically free too! Spend a meager 0.01 USD and you get it... though of course there are no games that cheap, so technically: spend a dollar.
I just wish you could sort games by price, or even better: by rebates, in ascending order, and I'd be all on this... but the game giveaways on this one: sure. I got those. Background here.
This thing dropped into my mailbox a few days ago, and of course I went to check it out! 10 years of GOG?! What can I say? I'm a fan. I'm hyped for the celebrations. I wanted to cast my vote.
But I guess a lot of other people did too because I only reached this far! Disappointed, I moved onto other projects, forgot about the event and just remembered it today.
At the nick of time! :D If you happen to be reading this blog within the next ten minutes or so: there's still time!!! Head over to the voting booth here, or if you're late maybe to read up on their history, watch a quick hype video and admire the graphics? They've always been good at those. Looking forward to seeing which one wins, real soon.
Like, right now. :) And I won!
Well we all won. Even if we voted on another game, cause there's rebates on all of them now, and Shadow Warrior's awesome right?
Also here's a few background images.
Cheers, for all these past years GOG (for the record I always pronounce that gee oh gee - gog just sounds wrong), and looking forward to this new decade that follows!
UPD: Also don't miss the video!
They put out a new free game: Ziggurat. Check it.
This is pretty revolutionary isn't it? And what a coincidence: A week after NG launched their major userpage overhaul GOG introduces userpages!
You can set visibility for each part to Everyone, Friends, or Only You - parts which are so far a list of Friends, Games, and your Wishlist.
There aren't any superfluous fields there to fill out - just a little profile blurb if you like, and your avatar if you don't already have one (I didn't, as until now there was no reason to). It seems you can only see profiles if you log in, but feel free to friend me if you like - I'm not a public figure there.
One cool detail apart from finally being able to share games and wishlists with others - if you do such things, are the customizable backgrounds. The selection looks like this so far; with a nifty search box for titles:
...but that's just a little peek! The full selection is pretty big.
In case you didn't open that image (or as a warning before you do) there's 380 choices. Quite something compared to NG's 5-6 background colors.
I'm not sure if loaded alternatives remain active, but toggling through different backgrounds trying to make a choice actually bogged down my browser so much I had to shut down the page - and open it again.
Hope they get that fixed. Also hope they add in some DOOM in their selection - because those legendary titles I was instantly hyped about being able to decorate my profile with were not there!!!!
Even though they do have the games.
This is pretty cool though. If you didn't have a reason to sign up for GOG earlier maybe this is reason enough? If you're into logging your game times and such this will let you do that too - via the GOG Galaxy client, and then boast to the world how much time you spend by the computer.
I don't think I'll be using that, but I do like the pages! Cool stuff GOG.
