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Article #697932GOG Summer Sale (and ELEK)
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:51
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:51
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GOG.Com has started their summer sale. Some okay deals - I just grabbed SWAT4 - and you get a free game (Rebel Galaxy) with your first purchase. More interestingly, they added a bunch of new games to their GOG-Connect service, so you can transfer (duplicate) more games from Steam to DRM-free GOG if you want. I still think GOGConnect makes no financial sense for GOG to offer, but it's great for us customers ;-) They were also offering a pre-order for a new game - ELEK - that caught my attention. It's apparently an open-world sci-fi game, but what caught my attention was one of the screenshots; "Wow," I said to myself, "That picture reminds me a lot of a screenshot from Gothic 3". Turns out ELEK is being developed by the same team (Piranha Bytes) so its no wonder there is a certain visual thematic consistency. Since I quite enjoyed the Gothic titles -despite their later misteps with the Risen series - I was very tempted to buy ELEK sight unseen and at full price. Fortunately, the game isn't out yet, else I might have forfeited the money.
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