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GOG.com Linux Games to Use Wine, but That's a Good Thing

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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GOG.com is a digital distribution platform that is specialized mostly in old games, but the company that owns it, CD Projekt Red, wants to also extend the support to include Linux. They are now looking for people to help them with Linux ports, although it seems that some of them will be distributed in Wine wrappers.

GOG stands for “good old games” and the company that took it upon itself to bring many titles back from the dead understood that melancholy sells. People want to play the games of their childhood, but it's possible that some of the titles might not work on current operating systems.

Getting them to work on modern OSes is not a difficult job to do, but GOG.com also wants to bring some of the games to the Linux platform, even if there wasn't a Linux version to begin with. To do this, they need some developers and they are hiring.

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