GOG.com
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GOG.com homepage as seen on December 15, 2014
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Type of site
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Digital distribution |
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| Available in | English, Russian, French, German, Portuguese |
| Founded | July 10, 2008 |
| Headquarters | Nicosia, Cyprus |
| No. of locations | 2 offices |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | CD Projekt |
| Managing director | Piotr Karwowski |
| Parent | CD Projekt |
| Website | gog |
| Alexa rank |
 2,728 (December 2015[update]) |
| Advertising | No |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | August 1, 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
| Native client(s) on | Microsoft Windows, macOS |
| Written in | PHP, C++ |
GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a Cypriot digital distribution platform service for video games and films, operated by GOG Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CD Projekt based in Nicosia, Cyprus, with an office in Warsaw, Poland. GOG delivers video games through its DRM-free digital platform for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux. In March 2012, it began selling more recent titles such as Alan Wake, Assassin's Creed and the Metro Redux series, among many others.
In 1994, Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński founded CD Projekt. They originally imported games from wholesalers in America to sell in Poland. In late 2008, CD Projekt launched GOG.com under the moniker Good Old Games. The initial goal was to release classic games to a modern audience without digital rights management restrictions.
During a period of days from September 19 to 22, 2010, the GOG.com website was disabled leaving behind messages on the web site and their Twitter accounts that the site had been closed. A spokesman for Good Old Games reiterated that the site is not being shut down, and confirmed news would be forthcoming about changes to the service. A clarification posted on the site on September 20, 2010, said they had to shut down the site temporarily "due to business and technical reasons", with industry journalists believing the shutdown may be related to the nature of DRM-free strategy, based on Twitter messages from the company. On September 22, 2010, GOG.com revealed that this shutdown was a marketing hoax as part of the site coming out of beta. The site's management, aware of the reactions to the fake closure, stated: "First of all we'd like to apologize to everyone who felt deceived or harmed in any way by the closedown of GOG.com. As a small company we don't have a huge marketing budget and this is why we could not miss a chance to generate some buzz around an event as big as launching a brand new version of our website and even more important, bringing back Baldur's Gate to life!"
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