The disappearance and unavailability of basic titles is inflicting an existential disaster in all of video gaming. Final November, in response, on-line PC video games retailer GOG introduced a Preservation Program, the place over 100 video games are promised ongoing help to be offered and run on trendy machines without end. It was introduced final evening that the beloved Silent Hill 4: The Room, greatest PC sport of all time Deus Ex, and authentic FEAR could be amongst 20 new video games becoming a member of the scheme. And the remainder of the names aren’t small, both.
In February, when one of many scourges of preservation, Warner Bros. (an organization that cabinets completed films such that they could by no means be seen by anybody, whereas deleting huge archives of basic animations from its streaming providers, alongside closing down sport studios which have created a number of the greatest video games of latest occasions), GOG reacted to the information of the closure of Monolith with an announcement that it’ll try to save lots of as most of the studio’s video games because it’s in a position by way of the Preservation Program. The primary of those, FEAR, is now in.
In the meantime, 2004’s Silent Hill 4 has joined this system with the addition of “restored scenes that had been by no means accessible on PC earlier than,” based on a press launch from GOG. This contains lacking “hauntings,” the unusual occasions that happen, which GOG discovered had been within the PC code however by no means included—their engineers have dug them out and received them working.
Alongside these two headliners are another basic video games that might simply benefit the identical moniker. Stone-cold classics like Deus Ex, Fallout 2, Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, Alone In The Darkish 1 to 3, and all eight authentic Ultima video games are additionally now included, that means they are going to be always maintained to work on trendy PCs for so long as GOG exists (and, the corporate instructed me, it has plans in place to make sure preservation can proceed if it was to go away). Oh, and Crystal Dynamic’s first three Tomb Raiders.
Right here’s the total checklist of latest additions. It’s value noting most of those are at present a minimum of 75 % off in GOG’s present sale:
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