GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’

PC crippled level GOG has launched a caller preservation programme dedicated to keeping beloved older games playable, “now and successful the future.”

“If a crippled is portion of the Preservation Program, it means that we perpetrate our ain resources to maintaining its compatibility with modern and aboriginal systems,” the announcement blog reads.

The programme is launching with 100 games including Diablo, System Shock 2, and Resident Evil 1-3, with GOG readying to adhd emore titles successful the coming months. Games featured successful the programme volition travel with a fig of perks. GOG says that erstwhile you bargain a crippled from the program, you can:

GOG says that its extremity is to get “all games nary longer updated oregon maintained by their archetypal publisher,” nary substance their age. A caller survey from the Video Game History Foundation recovered that 87 percent of games released earlier 2010 are nary longer capable to played. These figures are exacerbated by the inclination of delisting classical games from storefronts oregon shutting down full storefronts altogether. Even caller games are taxable to inaccessibility with Sony’s Concord going permanently offline specified weeks aft its motorboat earlier this year.

With the motorboat of this preservation program, GOG is 1 of the lone large crippled platforms to straight admit the grim world of video crippled preservation portion taking important enactment to support older games accessible.

“Games shaped us,” reads the announcement. “Being capable to play them is an indispensable portion of reconnecting with ourselves. They indispensable enactment accessible, playable, and alive.”