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Fed up with DRM, high costs, the same old same old and system requirements that are way to high? Go old school with GOG.com!

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard of Good Old Games (GOG.com).  I've been hearing a lot about it as well so I decided to finally check it out and what I discovered was a little slice of gamer heaven. Let's start with some of the problems of modern gaming - issues that I have at least, maybe you'll agree with some of them.  First of before anything else is the state of the software.  Buggy releases which feel like nothing more than late beta stage games, crippled with DRM and support that consists of the user doing all of the footwork.

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Spore patch released - DRM unchanged

EA released the first Spore patch today (PC only, Mac users will have to check back).  You can grab it here. Here's what it does (details in the full post), and the official site.

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Cheap EVGA Geforce GTX 260s, Xbox 360s, games and a bunch of other tech deals this morning.

A bunch of tech deals this morning, from high end video cards, through Xbox 360s that are not available yet to games and tech bits for building amazing systems.

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