![]() A lot of this is still not available to test. There's a Galaxy menu under the "Store" dropdown as well, with all the marketing points for the service. You click Install and agree to a EULA and. Here's what installing a game looks like. We're not sure why "Community" is located under the "Store" dropdown, but here it is. The wishlisted games in the checkout aisle is pretty clever. Like Steam, the GoG Galaxy client is as much store as it is launcher. They're all collected unde the "Download extras" option. GoG is known for all the extras it includes with its games, like soundtracks, manuals and more. The "More" dropdown has options for each game, including the user manual (a GoG staple). Clicking on its listing in the left column will bring you here. Here's what an installed game looks like. Note: Some titles are "Not yet available" in GoG Galaxy. You can choose your starting page in GoG Galaxy. You can find a photo tour of the Alpha, being replaced by today's Beta, below. Several of us here at Polygon have access to the GOG Galaxy beta, and we'll have more on our experiences with it as time goes on. We're getting ready to release and fully support even more AAA titles in the future." offer automatic updates, achievements and stats. "With GOG Galaxy, we can start bringing new, big games to GOG.com," Piotr Karwowski, vice president of online technologies said in a press release today. When the public finally gets its hands on it, the experience will be better for it. With luck, GOG Galaxy's smaller pool of beta users will allow the company to stress test the system before widely releasing it. Valve famously ran into issues nearly 12 years ago when it launched Steam around the same time it released Half-Life 2. ![]() Of course, a big test of GOG Galaxy will come with the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on May 19, just two short week away. "GOG Galaxy will make it possible for us to support new games that require online features, but it's equally important to offer an even better experience to our existing users, and to support our community in seamlessly transitioning between our website, into games and in between." "GOG Galaxy is as much about bringing the GOG.com experience up to modern par, as it is about offering completely new features and standards," GOG's website says. The first major test of GOG Galaxy will be the new Witcher game ![]() Add to that an achievements and statistics tracking system, friends list and chat functions, and you've got a pretty robust competitor to Valve with a compelling and diverse catalog of titles. GOG Galaxy will also help players manage online matchmaking, potentially breathing new life into games that haven't been played widely in a generation. GOG Galaxy will also let you opt out of updates, and eventually help you manage the process of rolling back updates after they've occurred. When you buy a game through GOG Galaxy, you'll be able to download a backup copy of the title that is completely DRM-free and store it wherever, however you wish. ![]() Play what you want, when you want to - online or off. The final feature set going live for some users today lives up to those design goals. The core of the game will remain 100 percent DRM-free at all times." ![]() "If the player doesn't want to get online to upload his achievements to his GOG account, or simply he just doesn't want to play online, he will not be requested - ever - to get online to play the single-player mode. "We wanted to have online features inside the online games, but we believe that those features should be totally optional," GOG's Guillaume Rambourg told Polygon. But their stated goal was to move beyond a rich back catalog, to create a service not unlike Valve's Steam. This year GOG has managed to publish several white whales - LucasArts series like X-Wing and SCUMM classics like Monkey Island. When Polygon visited GOG's offices in Warsaw this time last year, their vice president of North America was just getting ready to open new offices in Los Angeles. ![]()
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