CD Projekt-owned GOG has launched the GOG Preservation Program to guarantee the longevity of over 100 video games resembling Fallout: New Vegas, The Witcher 2: Murderer’s of Kings, Resident Evil, and extra.
The GOG Preservation Program is a dedication from GOG to preserve video games’ compatibility with trendy and future methods in an more and more digital world.
“The GOG Preservation Program is our dedication to preserving gaming historical past,” GOG mentioned. “By the program, gamers can belief that their video games will all the time be up to date and prepared to run on present and future PC setups.
“Whether or not it’s manuals, DLCs, or lacking options, we’re providing the most full model doable, backed by GOG’s tech help and offline installers, so you possibly can safeguard these classics for years to come.”
A complete of 108 video games are presently included in the GOG Preservation Program in an inventory additionally containing Dragon Age Origins, System Shock 2, The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, Legacy of Kain: Defiance, Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, and Mad Max. GOG will add extra video games to the checklist over time.
“In a world of fast technological change, we see the pressing want to save video video games from
vanishing,” it added. “The GOG Preservation Program is dedicated to retaining beloved classics alive and
playable for future generations.
“Our aim is for all video games, whether or not latest or traditional, to ultimately change into half of the Preservation Program. For a recreation to qualify for the Program, our group should run it by many high quality checks. If these checks fail, our group updates and improves the recreation till it matches our high quality requirements. Solely then, we stamp the recreation with our Preservation Program and grant it Good Previous Sport standing.
“There’s a lengthy backlog of traditional video games obtainable on GOG which will already qualify for the program, however our group has not been ready to affirm that but. We goal to help as many video games as doable, nevertheless it’s not all the time solely up to us.”
This can be a rising concern for online game followers worldwide who fear about video games new and previous shedding performance as time goes on. A chief instance is available in The Crew, which Ubisoft faraway from sale and took offline in March. This implies The Crew, which was launched in 2014, can now not be performed in any capability, now or in the future. It now not exists.
The Crew was an online-only recreation and due to this fact half of a class maybe extra in danger of delisting, however even single-player video games are more and more changing into in danger. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, for instance, is a purely single-player recreation that launched solely partly on-disc. It in any other case required a obtain for the full recreation, and due to this fact its bodily model can not exist with out an web connection.
GOG mentioned it needs tons of of video games to enter the GOG Preservation Program by the finish of 2025, and that it presently has a protracted backlog of video games presently being evaluated. Every recreation should go by many high quality checks earlier than it’s deemed of a excessive sufficient normal to enter the GOG Preservation Program. Video games which fail shall be improved upon till it matches GOG’s requirements.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.