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As our catalog gets bigger and better every week, it's easy to lose track of some of the awesome games that we have to offer. We've been running one day "Gaming Gem" promos for a while now to highlight some classic titles that don't get the love of some of our best-known blockbusters like Baldur's Gate or Duke Nukem 3D. To celebrate summer, for the next two weeks until July 25th, we're going to run a Gaming Gem promo every day, so you can rediscover these lesser-known classics! Grab that plastic toy shovel and dig out gem after gem over the next 18 days. We think every game we're going to be offering on our Summer GOG.com Gem Extravaganza will be an excellent title, and we hope you give them all a try.

If you’re itching for a mature, classic point-and-click adventure game, today is your lucky day! We’d like remind you about a golden gem of adventure games from the era when the genre was almost already forgotten - meet [url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/the_longest_journey]The Longest Journey. The game created by Funcom is not only one of the best adventure titles ever created, it’s a piece of video game art! The 91 out of 100 score on Metacritic is one of many proofs for that. As a young woman, April Ryan, you’ll be switching between two parallel words: Arcadia - the world of fantasy and magic, and Stark - ruled by the strict science and technology. It seems that these two worlds are slowly merging, and April is the only one who help restore the natural order of thing. That’s a truly epic story, with truly epic characters for a truly epic price - today you can grab The Longest Journey for 60% off.

Don’t waste time, grab The Longest Journey for only $3.99 and enjoy one of the best games ever. The promo on this game ends tomorrow, July 20 at 5:59 a.m. EDT (9:59 a.m. GMT). If you already own this title or it’s just not your type of game, be sure to check back tomorrow for another Summer Gem Promo!
Long time NVIDIA user, currently using ATI, its a freakin pain in the nuts with some games, just updating the drivers is buggy, needing re-installs all the time.
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dukenuke88: its been ATI vs Nvidia for the longest...I'm not sure if thats gonna change any time soon...but that would be cool if there was a manufacture that strictly worked on older games
There is always someone new. And the way they enter the fray... giving the consumer what they want and breaking away from the bloat of the top dogs. Its how Best Buy, Fryes, Netflix, etc came to be. They come in and "fix" what we have become accustomed to.

Sadly, they eventually become one of the big dogs themselves and start to raise prices and restrict the policies that got them where they are.

Specifically speaking to video cards, there was Voodoo, Diamond, S3, Trident, etc. I agree, Nvidia and ATI have a major share of the market. So for a competitor to step up, they would need to innovate. IMHO one way to do that is to stop offering useless frills and fluff and just make a very solid driver set where the core is built on instead of modified endlessly. Once a game works, it should always work on that card. If you build solid updates it should add features, not change older ones because the older ones should be stable and locked. So while a retro card would work (even just a retro PC with win98Se/ME installed with manufacturer support might be marketable...) but I'm thinking there is room to innovate and spark competition.

sorry for the derail, see what happens when you name a game, THE Longest Journey ;)