More EA Titles Coming to Good Old Games!
The news at Good Old Games this morning should be exciting to every fan of Origin Systems:
Back in June, when we announced that Electronic Arts joins GOG’s DRM-free Revolution, we made a promise. After releasing couple stunning classics like Dungeon Keeper, Crusader: No Remorse and Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, we took some time off from EA releases, but promised to bring back more great titles from this publisher in late summer. The time has come to say farewell to the summer and take you all gamers back to the Old School with the release of more EA classic games. Be sure to check back this Thursday to see for yourself what the next batch from Electronic Arts and GOG.com brings!
Now, I don’t know for certain that the games they’ll be releasing on Thursday will be from the Orign portion of EA’s rather large catalogue of grand old titles. I suspect this will be the case, and in fact I’m going to stick my neck out and speculate that we’ll see a trilogy of Ultima titles — Ultima 4 through Ultima 6 — when we all check out GOG on Thursday morning.
But ultimately, I don’t know for sure…so don’t come complaining that I was wrong if they release something like Westwood’s Blade Runner instead (not that it wouldn’t be cool if they did that, of course).
I hope that eventually ALL old games are available somewhere legally like GoG. I can download (have actually) the uber torrent of DOS games, but it’s kinda sad that the only way to get them is illegal. Would be nice, for historical preservation if nothing else, for a company to make it their responsibility to legally house and distribute these games. Finding the instruction manuals and box fronts/backs would be badass too, though probably much more difficult.
Yay! Wing Commander 1 & 2. I’d actually never played any Wing Commander before Privateer got released on GOG, and I’ve been loving it since then so I’ll definitely give these ones a go, just as soon as I’ve got time.
They’ve also released Dungeon Keeper 2 today and apparently there are 6 more games to be released in the coming weeks so I’m sure we’ll see some Ultima very soon.