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GOG Offers PC Gaming Classics

GOG.com will soon offer classic PC games via digital download on the cheap.

GOG.com promises to deliver classic low-cost DRM-free PC games such as Fallout and MDK to gamers later this year.

The digital storefront GOG.com--or "Good Old Games"--comes from CD Projekt, the house behind the PC RPG, The Witcher.

Games on GOG.com are DRM-free, work on Windows XP and Vista, and cost $5.99 or $9.99. The site itself will offer community features such as forums, user reviews and editorial content.

A closed public beta is slated to begin August 1.

CD Projekt is currently in talks with "several" publishers to get their games on GOG.com. Interplay and Codemasters are two that are already locked in.

Some titles that are confirmed to arrive on the service include Fallout, Freespace 2, Operation Flashpoint and TOCA Race Car Driver 3.

GOG.com managing director Adam Oldakowski said in a statement, "...We’ve started building a great games catalogue, gotten rid of the copy protection that gamers hate so much, optimized the games to work on modern operating systems, and made them cheap enough that piracy seems like a rip-off."