GOG Aims To Revive Physical PC Games
GOG has long been a proponent of game preservation, with its Game Preservation Program seemingly working tirelessly on getting old PC games up and…
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| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
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| Corroborationleads | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 41% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trust | 0.25 | 0.44 | +0.110 34% | TechPowerUp is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.41 | +0.082 25% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
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What happened
GOG has long been a proponent of game preservation, with its Game Preservation Program seemingly working tirelessly on getting old PC games up and running on modern hardware and providing downloadable, DRM-free, offline installers for those games, and recently even partnering with Big Box Collection to host printable game covers and 3D scans of physical game boxes. Now, in a recent interview with GamesRadar+, GOG's senior business development and partnerships manager, Marcin Paczynski, said that the DRM-free game storefront has ambitions to bring physical media back to PC games. Marcin Paczynski via GamesRadar+ Ideally, my dream would be to be able to buy physical versions of those games on GOG.
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