CD Projekt Red-owned digital distribution platform GOG (Good Old Games) has just unveiled a major push to ensure classic games are up-to-date and available to play on modern PCs without additional user tinkering.
The announcement arrived on November 13, 2024, highlighting recent retro releases that received additional polish for their GOG launches: Alpha Protocol and the three original Resident Evil games. They’re only the last two examples in a long line of efforts led by the platform to ensure as many classics as possible remain perfectly playable on modern systems.
“Our original promise to classic game creators was that we’d offload all the work from their hands and ensure that games remain compatible with modern systems forever,” the company said via an official press release. Following on the success of recently upgraded re-releases, it appears those efforts are only getting bigger with the announcement of the GOG Preservation Program, which is re-releasing 100 classic games today featuring extra enhancements and fixes, with more titles being included later.
The games that have undergone tweaks and polish thanks to GOG’s own tech and support teams will have a flashy stamp on their respective store pages, with all the information on the work done to ‘modernize’ them included alongside the original release details and through a preservation log.
According to GOG, these DRM-free, fully updated releases will be the absolute best versions available on any digital PC storefront. Looking at the recent work done on particularly wobbly modern classics such as Fallout: New Vegas, we’re inclined to believe this narrative and can’t wait to see more.
According to the press release, this will be an ongoing long-term effort aimed at updating both “new classic releases” and the platform’s “existing catalog” (which is pretty huge already), so we suggest keeping an eye on GOG’s homepage and social accounts if you love retro PC gaming.
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