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[spectre51]

THE BIG WINTER SALE STARTS NOW

Once again seems gog is going the early bird route with its sales to tempt people into some sales before the other stores offer their winter sale promotions and not have to directly compete at the same time.

[spectre51]

INTRODUCING GOG CONNECT

Connect your Steam account and grow or jumpstart your GOG.com library.

Today, we're launching a new program called GOG Connect. The premise is simple: connect your Steam account and add your eligible games to your GOG.com library.

Whether you're checking us out for the first time or have been with us for a while, GOG Connect gets you DRM-free versions of your games, digital extras, and a whole lot of freedom of choice (like whether you go with the GOG Galaxy client or not). It gets you our take on game ownership, and we say: why buy the games more than once?

Thanks to our awesome partners including Deep Silver, Harebrained Schemes, Jonathan Blow's Number None, TaleWorlds and more, you can now add more than 20 games to your GOG.com library if you previously purchased them on Steam.

The full list of games will always be available on connect.gog.com, starting with these and more:

- The Witness
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut
- Galactic Civilizations 3
- Trine Enchanted Edition
- Saints Row 2
- Shadowrun Returns
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition


While GOG Connect will stick around, the available games will come and go. These are limited-time offers made possible by participating developers and publishers, so stay tuned as we bring new titles onboard in the future (and grab your copies before they go away)!


For a bit more library-building, a bunch of our favorite titles will also be discounted up to -85% all week long, including The Witness, Saints Row: The Third, System Shock 2 and more. You can check out all the deals here. The sale will last until June 6, 12:59 PM UTC.

Source: gog

[Axe99]

An interesting development.  Am guessing GOG is still struggling to compete with the behemoth that is Steam.

[GasClown]

Axe99, on 02 June 2016 - 09:25 AM, said:

Am guessing GOG is still struggling to compete with the behemoth that is Steam.

Can't beat 'em, join 'em!!

[SmokeyPSD]

Seriously great move by them. It'll be good to get the odd GOG extras for games I already have here and there.

It's probably to help get even more people just plain using GOG. Makes it easier to have another platform going if you can transfer a bunch of games onto it.

PC is so segregated right now which makes it a headache. Steam is a bit of a walled garden it's good for things like this to keep happening and force Steam to actually put some effort into their platform and customer service. Hopefully GOG will be a real contender in a few years time, it's definitely coming along well at this point with how Galaxy is going, achievements, crossplay etc.

[spectre51]

Grab deals up to 90% off and earn free games | System Shock 2 giveaway!

It's time for another adventurous Summer Sale! Join us for two whole weeks and lie by an ocean of game premieres and 1000+ deals, gather XP to unlock free games, and participate in summer activities! It's seriously the neatest one yet.



System Shock 2 is free for the first 48 hours to help us improve the GOG Galaxy client with a stress test giveaway. If you want to help out (and score a freebie), simply download GOG Galaxy, visit your experience page through the client, then claim and download your free game.


We'll have more and more deals for you every 24 hours as the 2016 Summer Sale marches on – and the deals will stick around until the end — starting with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (-50%), Rebel Galaxy (-50%), and Day of the Tentacle Remastered (-33%) as well as bundles including X-Wing and TIE Fighter, D&D Gold Box classics and more. Come, or stay, but do look out for more awesome deals and game premieres!

Collect XP to earn free games

This is the really cool part – check in every day, participate in activities to collect badges, and buy stuff during the sale to earn XP. As you progress, so will your Summer Sale hero, plus you'll unlock free games: Spelunky(5000 points), Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – 20th Anniversary Edition(15000 points), and Dreamfall Chapters Season Pass(30000 points).

GOG Plays on Twitch.tv/GOGcom

Join us for the grand Twitch plays event and help achieve greatness in Stardew Valley and Grim Fandango Remastered. For every challenge we complete everyone will get an extra XP boost. The first, Stardew Valley, event begins Thursday, June 9, at 4:00 PM UTC – where you will be tasked with the greatest feat of all: to plant a Parsnip. It's going to be all kinds of ridiculous.

We'll be streaming great games all sale long too, so check out the schedule and tune in!

The 2016 Summer Sale will last until Wednesday, June 22, 12:59 PM UTC / 14:59 CEST / 5:59 AM PDT / 8:59 AM EDT.

Source: gog

[Axe99]

Cheers for the latest All-knowing Spec .  Great to see GoG fighting the good fight, competition is good .