Er, does that affect anything? Anyway up to you. I know it's nice to look at all your games in 1 place. And people who view your Steam community profile can see it too.

Good Old Games

    * Enlight games bundle - $19.14 (60% off)

          o Capitalism Plus - $3.59 (40% off)

          o Capitalism 2 - $5.99 (40% off)

          o Restaurant Empire - $5.99 (40% off)

          o Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries - $3.59 (40% off)

          o Seven Kingdoms 2 - $3.59 (40% off)

          o Warlords Battlecry 3 - $5.99 (40% off)

I have only foggy memories of Sega’s 1991 side-scrolling man-thumper Streets of Rage (I was more of a Final Fight man, played on a chum’s Amiga) but I remember visiting the house of the only boy in the world to own a Mega-CD / Sega CD and playing it with him there. Though it might have been the second game, now I think of it. No matter – many buttons were bashed, many men were thumped, many naughty-swears were uttered. And yes, I do remember that thing where the police car turns up and bombs everything to death with as much fondness as the next man.

Now, a cartel of indie devs have painstakingly remade the bally thing as an elaborate, faithful but free PC game. After a remarkable eight years in development, you can play the ‘final’ version of this labour of violent love right now.

No simple tribute, it’s in fact an attempt to merge all three Streets of Rage games into one enormous omni-basher. 19 playable biff-masters, 64 enemies, 103 stages, plus local co-op and all manner of bonus content. It’s clearly a passion project, rather than any kind of cash-in, as evidenced by the devs’ strict mandate that it must not be charged for.

This is version 5, which is leaps and bounds on from the many beta versions over the last near-decade. You can still explore those here, if you’re so taken, but frankly you should go straight to the full-fat newest version, which is dripping with features and polish.

Works pretty well on keyboard, I’m pleased to report, though the dedication to original resolution graphics means it’s not massively sharp’n'beautiful on today’s many-pixelled monitors. Definitely better to have the (more or less) original look, replete with all its early-90s cheese and absurd body types, than some slick modern reworking though, I suspect.

Clearly, it risks standing on the wrong side of copyright law, but apparently no reverse engineering or code-pilfering is involved – instead, “it’s all based on visual interpretation, comparing how things work in the original games and trying to mimic it for Streets of Rage Remake.” The devs have informed Sega of its existence, and as of the time of writing no smackdown has arrived – hopefully all is thus well.

Grab 218MB of meticulously-recreated console vigilantism from here, although you’ll likely need to go through a MegaUpload or RapidShare service to get it – servers don’t come cheap, y’know.

Here’s a video of that wonderful, terrible police car special move:

Guilty Gear X2 Reload is now available! It's a very good game which I enjoyed very much in the past!

Last week SEGA ordered that the Streets Of Rage remake – a faithful fan (reportedly eight years in development) recreation by Bomber Gamers that we previously reported on – be taken down by its creators. Subsequently, SEGA issued this statement:

    “SEGA is committed to supporting any fans that take an interest in our games, and where possible we do so by involving them in Beta tests and other development, marketing or research opportunities. However we need to protect our intellectual property rights and this may result in us requesting that our fans remove online imagery, videos or games in some instances.”

Fairly tragic, I think. Is there any good news today?

At the end of the CDP Days 2011 Spring Conference (which was streamed live online and is available to replay here), CD Projekt teased the audience with logos from five major game publishers: Microsoft, Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Take-Two, and Square-Enix. Apparently, one of those five has already signed on to bring more than 25 titles to the service this summer, and two others are likely to come on board later this year.

Additionally, CDP announced an update to their GOG downloader client that is coming soon, featuring multi-threaded downloads and automatic error checking. The former will let you to download larger games as quickly as your connection will allow, and the latter will check for corruption every 10MB and re-download individual chunks if necessary.

Spotted on Big Download.

Sorry for being a noob.. if $44.99 actually means how much in RM? Compared to retail how much was saved?

Wow RM140 seems affordable for Premium Edition!. Hmm.. downside i need to download... 512package downloading 16GB

Yeah i was reading the GoG.. trying to find out if i need to install some client but the faq state i can even play the game without internet connection. Here: http://www.gog.com/en/about

Sorry i have not use steam or GoG before.. I used to buy games from TSB and bank in cheque to them. So i guess i may need to fill in my full credit card no. and my pin right? Sorry noob here... It's safe doing so right?

Errm.. this sounds bit of hassle.. In the GoG i saw they mentioned they accept VISA / MASTERCARD / PAYPAL. I'm using MBF MASTERCARD. Ermm.. can be used right?

Star Control 2 is already Free to play. You can search for Ur Quan Masters for the full game.

Re-incarnating ship is from Pkunk race.

Whether you bought the game, got the demo in a box of Kellogg's, or haven't even heard of it - here's your chance to visit the Wild West!

Go on a journey to New Mexico in 1881 as one of the six Desperados that are on the hunt for the train robbing "El Diablo." As John Cooper, the bounty hunter engage your enemies in a real time strategy game - think Commandos but with revolvers and a Wild West setting. Utilize each team member's unique skillset, ranging from carrying Gatling guns or faking a siesta to special equipment like Mia's monkey or Samuel with his love for TNT. Overcome the engaging missions with unique setting and scenery. Challenge the robust AI system which makes each try at a mission a unique experience.

Apart from the enemies, your heroes also have unique gameplay features like Quick Action which lets you bind a series of actions into one button, so you can shoot your enemies "John Wayne style".

So what game made you ride with the outlaws? It's Desperados, we think

UPDATED: So if you read this post earlier (or if you scroll down and read it now) you’ll see that we announced that the site update was going to be tomorrow, and that the site was going to be down. We figured, given our kind of rocky history with site updates, that you guys might like to know in advance.

Good news, then! We’re giving you more advance notice than we thought. It turns out that there are a few pernicious bugs with the new GOG downloader that we need to fix, so we’re pushing back the site update until the 35th of April (to keep things still as promised as “late April”) or, if you’re determined to stick with your “Gregorian calendar,” the fifth of May.

We’re still on schedule to have a game release tomorrow, but because we’re shifting our schedule around to reflect the changes wrought by moving the site update there won’t be a game on Thursday. On the bright side, we’ll be seeing a new and improved version of an old friend back on the site Thursday, and man do we ever have a great week-long promo starting for you guys tomorrow.

Unless we have to move it or something.


ORIGINAL POST: If you watched our presentation at CDP Days, you know that we have a plethora—a veritable cornucopia—of new and exciting site updates coming in late April. As late April is upon us, we'll be implementing those updates on GOG.com soon. Wednesday, to be exact.

As a result, we need to take the website down for a few hours to get all of our servers dusted and our databases lined up in rows. We're expecting the downtime to be sometime around 3AM EDT (or 7AM GMT) and should only be a few hours.

Also, because we want to encourage you to come to GOG.com and check out the new site features on Wednesday when they go live, we're holding our Tuesday game release to go out on Wednesday. So check back in at GOG.com on Wednesday (not too early, mind you) and check out the new digs!