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Banned Steam game Horses sells 18,000 units in 2 weeks and earns $65,000 – enough to break even but not enough to keep its studio from disbanding: "Fragmentation is a lasting consequence"

Santa Ragione wants "clearer rules, transparent processes, and meaningful accountability from near monopolistic distribution platforms and the systems they enforce"

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Producer behind banned horror game Horses says public outcry and support "made a huge, huge difference," but it's still "very likely" the end for the studio

"We might be able to pay back the people who have lent us the money and pay off the debt. But it's unlikely that will give us enough money to actually produce something new at this point"

GamesRadar

The Outer Worlds is actually not being delisted from GOG after all: 'It was an unfortunate miscommunication'

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is apparently still on the block, but GOG is hopeful for a turnaround on that one too.

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The predecessor to one of Xbox's biggest new games is getting delisted from a popular PC gaming store — you have less than a week to get it

Next week, both The Outer Worlds and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey are being delisted from the popular DRM-free PC gaming store GOG.

Windows Central

If you don’t use your Steam key, Humble Bundle will apparently replace it with Epic or GOG instead

Redeem those keys ASAP, folks.

Destructoid

"This still does not compare to the kind of audience we would have on Steam": Horses lead says ban virality helped sales "but we're not out of the woods," and he fears "self-censorship" with future games

Horses has become a top seller on GOG

GamesRadar

To celebrate Total War's 25th anniversary, 4 of the series' best games are being added to GOG's preservation program—and they're currently available at up to 80% off

Rome, Shogun, and both Medievals have been added to the store for only a few dollars each.

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Banned horror game Horses now topping GOG's best-seller charts amid censorship controversy, and it's back on Humble even as Steam and Epic refuse to carry it

"After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal from their store"

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Horses is back on the Humble Store: 'After a full review they determined that while the content is heavy, nothing in the game warrants removal'

It turns out that all the press about Horses being banned on Steam and Epic made the Humble folks nervous, and they freaked out a bit. And didn't tell anyone.

PC Gamer

Getting banned by Steam and Epic has made HORSES a best-seller — but this censorship bodes ill for creativity

HORSES is now a top seller on GOG and itch.io after it was controversially banned on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and now Humble.

Windows Central

One week after an acclaimed indie studio said it faces closure following a Steam ban for its surreal horror game, Humble joins Epic in banning Horses at the last minute

Well somebody has to think of the children

GamesRadar

One of the biggest and best game mods of all time is now a one-click install on GOG — but there's one huge downside

STALKER GAMMA, a huge modpack for STALKER Anomaly and one of the most popular mods of all time, is now available to play through GOG.

Windows Central

Banned by Steam, $100,000 in the hole, and facing shutdown, graphic horror game dev now dropped by Epic Games Store "roughly 24 hours before launch"

This game can't catch a break

GamesRadar

GOG says it's 'proud to give Horses a home' after the horror game was rejected by Steam, but commenters won't let it forget the time it rejected another horror game

Horses won't be leaving GOG, but it isn't the first game to get this treatment from big storefronts.

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GOG shades Steam in support for horror game banned by Valve: "We've always believed that players should be able to choose the experiences that speak to them"

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Original Yakuza 0's getting delisted from Steam on December 8, but you can tuck away a GOG copy for 45% off right now

We're through the looking glass.

PC Gamer

Disappeared survival horror Cold Fear magically returns in GOG's immortal games lineup, with 4K, crash fixes, and support for modern controllers

Joined by Ubisoft's 2012 I Am Alive, no less, which it turns out is alive.

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A brilliant new app makes your Xbox Ally look cleaner with proper Steam artwork

Your Xbox Ally finally looks like a real storefront powered by proper artwork.

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The 7 apps I always install first on a Windows 11 PC — and they're all FREE

I spend more time than an average person setting up fresh installations of Windows 11, so here's a little list of the first seven apps I always put on any PC.

PC Gamer

Study says only 72% of game developers reckon that Steam has a monopoly on PC games, and even with some big caveats, it makes me wonder what the other 28% are thinking

Most of the developers surveyed were C-suite level.

PC Gamer

GOG's preservation program now includes Splinter Cell, Resident Evil HD and, er, Spore, while you can also get 95% off XCOM 2 in its Autumn Sale

The Witcher 3 is also going cheap, as ever.

PC Gamer

GOG is giving away the perfect horror freebie for Halloween

The most excellent (and awful) adventure Stasis is yours to keep until November 3.

GamesRadar

Once an icon of intrusive EA DRM, The Sims studio's classic life sim Spore will "live forever" in the GOG Preservation Program alongside Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider 2013, and more

If only Darkspore would follow suit

PC Gamer

Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program

Marcin Paczynski told The Game Business he could "write a book" on the strange routes GOG has taken to keep games available to buy.

PC Gamer

Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: 'We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience'

What you fail to understand, Mr GOG, is that new thing is shiny.

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