Posts Tagged ‘digital distribution’

In Cold Blood now available on GOG

Posted in adventure game on November 22nd, 2009 by David – Be the first to comment

Good Old Games (GOG) maintenant offre In Cold Blood, un jeu classique d’aventure de Revolution Studios, avec quelques éléments d’action.

Chacun qui aime les jeux d’aventure connaît Revolution Studios. Leurs premières jeux, Lure of the Temptress et Beneath a Steel Sky, sont disponibles maintenant avec le logiciel libre ScummVM. Après ces deux, Revolution Studios a continué a créer des jeux d’aventure qui ont redéfinis le genre.

Parfois, cette redéfinition n’était pas tout à fait ce que le public voulait, comme c’était le cas avec In Cold Blood. Simplement l’idée d’éléments d’action faisait en sorte que les joueurs ‘die hard’ n’en voulaient pas, et le jeu n’a pas atteint le succès commercial attendu. Due à cela, le jeu était impossible à trouver jusque maintenant.

Il faut remercier GOG qu’ils continuent a nous proposer des jeux d’antan qui sont vraiment chouettes.

Divine Divinity comes back to life on Impulse

Posted in Games on November 22nd, 2009 by David – Be the first to comment

The guys at Larian really want all of us playing back the game that started it all : Divine Divinity. After the initial release on GOG, as I mentioned earlier, the game has how also been made available on Impulse.

Now is your time to choose: GOG delivers the games without DRM, and as such the price is at $9.99. Impulse requires you to download the impulse client (a bit like the steam client from Valve) and due to the fact that you have DRM involved, the price is read more »

Larian releases Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity on GOG.com

Posted in Games on November 2nd, 2009 by David – 1 Comment

Larian games has just released Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity on Gog.com. As a prelude to the worldwide release of the new installment in the Divinity universe, Larian is giving us the possibility to get re-acquainted with the fantastic worlds their stories play in. Divine Divinity (or ‘Sword of Lies’, as it was called initially) is now available on GOG.com for $5.99. The sequel, Beyond Divinity, is announced as ‘coming soon’ with a price of $9.99.

Divine Divinity was the game that put Larian Games on the map of the RPG-playing world. I had the luck of being able to go playtesting the first game just before the demo was released, and I was truly impressed by the insane amount of detail that went into the world.

The game sports a massive world with diverse locations to explore, an enthralling storyline offering weeks of gameplay, plus a great atmosphere, augmented by an outstanding musical score. If you like RPGs, you cannot miss this one.

I couldn’t agree more. The comparison with “Baldur’s Gate” was made quite often, and it still remains incredible that a small Belgian games company was able to produce such a polished and fun game.

As for the music, just come to Zwinneblomme in Knokke at the end of November, and you’ll be able to hear and see Kirill Pokrovsky himself. He’ll be enjoying himself entertaining the people in the piano bar at that party, so it won’t be games music. Nevertheless, it’ll be a blast, like every year.