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Posted May 05, 2015
Brought to you by GOG.com

<span class="bold">Pacific General</span> and <span class="bold">Fantasy General</span>, the accessible, Panzer-like grand strategy classics, are available now DRM-free on GOG.com!

<span class="bold">Pacific General</span>, available for Windows, is a spiritual sequel from the studio behind the acclaimed Panzer General series - an improvement over the classic, but one that retains the same feel and concepts as its inspiration. Once more we return to the overhead battlefields of World War II in a series of quick-play scenarios and full-blown campaigns: everything from Pearl Harbor to hypothetical invasion scenarios is here, all packaged in a relatively newbie-friendly grand-strategy package. <span class="bold">Fantasy General</span> takes that same experience and sets it in a fantasy universe. This one's for you if you're a fan of large-scale hex-based battlefields and steampunk-infused fantasy. Fantasy General is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
<span class="bold">Pacific General</span> and <span class="bold">Fantasy General</span> are being published by GOG.com. We are happy to release these titles not on behalf of another party, but by acting as the sole publisher for the very first time!



Unleash your inner armchair general with <span class="bold">Pacific General</span> and <span class="bold">Fantasy General</span>, available now, DRM-free on GOG.com!
Posted May 05, 2015
Whaaaaaaat? Such a milestone in gaming history is happening just few seconds after I go for lunch????

Congrats GOG!!! This is awesome!!!
To celebrate it I'm buying these games even I'm not exactly well known strategist ;)
Post edited May 05, 2015 by cyboff
Posted May 05, 2015
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viperfdl: GOG now publishing games brings new options to deal with with steam:

GOG: "We have Panzer + Fantasie General."
Valve: "We know."
GOG: "You want it?"
Valve: "Yes of course!"
GOG: "How about you bring Halflife 1 + Addons DRM-free to GOG.com and we release Panzer General series on steam?"
Valve: "Deal!"
If that ever happened there would be a lot of hat eating is my guess ;)
Posted May 05, 2015
Played through Fantasy General a yaer ago and it is still very playable. But I must say that the remakes (Fantasy Wars and Elven Legacy) are overall much better.
Posted May 05, 2015
I always wondered why you didn't took this step earlier ... but better late than never ;)
If those nightdive dudes can then for sure you can do better.
I wish you good luck as a publisher too!
Posted May 05, 2015
SSi, these guys had nice games, best of them were the EOTB 1,2 and 3
which i had on amiga and eotb 2 on cd for pc
even bought the paper strategy guide way back then for eotb, thats long time ago


if eotb 1,2,3 could come here aswell that would be nice.
Posted May 05, 2015
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angelus04: Hope to see more SSI titles *coughs* Ravenloft damn need to do something about that cough of mine
GOG should also publish Menzoberranzan!
Posted May 05, 2015
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Barry_Woodward: Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back
Bear in mind that Chaos Strikes Back never had an official PC release in the first place. There's been an unofficial port though, which is freely downloadable. Not sure about the legality of it.
Posted May 05, 2015
Awesome :)
It's these kind of releases that I check GOG daily for! Pacific General is still very playable, looking forward to giving Fantasy General a spin too!
Posted May 05, 2015
Thank you, GOG. I hope that Panzer General 1 was also sold by Ubisoft (despite them using the name for a Free to Play online game).
Posted May 05, 2015
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vicklemos: Lemme summon our beloved Judas in here... :P

Why these games? A personal fav or something?
Gotta say I'm impressed with the screens and having played PG some while ago, I'm curious.

And will you guys stick to classics, I mean, wouldn't you provide a huge boost for indie/newer games? Man if I were an indie dev I'd beg you guys* to publish my game; honestly speaking in here :)

Cheers!

* edit: you guys or some other awesome indie publisher like Devolver or something :P
Why these games? Maybe the amount of wishlist votes and the rights availability had something to do with it, I don't truly know, just glad to have them here, to be honest :)

Will we stick to the classics? Again, too early to tell how this whole shindig is going to go so let's not get too hyped up :)


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JudasIscariot: I cannot reveal whether a given title is or isn't coming to our site, NDAs and all that.
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MaximumBunny: Does this NDA apply interdimensionally? Because every time you don't tell us here a Judas in an alternate dimension would be sharing everything. So you're already in clear violation in the books and may as well tell us what you know. ;D
It applies everywhere :P
Post edited May 05, 2015 by JudasIscariot
Posted May 05, 2015
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Barry_Woodward: Can you look into getting the rights to the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_(video_game)]Dungeon Master[/url] series? I believe the rights currently belong to Wayne Holder, founder of the defunct FTL Games. The games have never been released digitally, and nothing has been done with the IP for a long time.

Vote for the games on the wishlist:

Dungeon Master
Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back
Dungeon Master II: The Legend Of Skullkeep
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jamyskis: Bear in mind that Chaos Strikes Back never had an official PC release in the first place. There's been an unofficial port though...
The specialists at GOG could probably find a way to port it to or emulate it on PC, Mac and Linux. Perhaps they could even enlist whoever created the unofficial port.
Post edited May 05, 2015 by Barry_Woodward
Posted May 05, 2015
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GOG.com: <span class="bold">Pacific General</span> and <span class="bold">Fantasy General</span> are being published by GOG.com. We are happy to release these titles not on behalf of another party, but by acting as the sole publisher for the very first time!
Nice move, GOG! Moar of that please :-)
Posted May 05, 2015
I thought Ubisoft had finally gotten around to releasing these, but this is a very interesting development! If Ubi did have the rights to these and they let GOG buy them, I hope that means we can finally see a release of many of the other New World Computing and SSI games, Albion, etc. that they have the rights to but never put up for sale anywhere.
Posted May 05, 2015
Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks!!!!

Two of my all time favorites!

They are back from abandonware, are they?
Posted May 05, 2015
Instabuy.

Thank you!
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