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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 CC for $6, 1000 free/drm free MP3s and PhysX on the cheap – Woden would be proud of his day

Ah Woden, with your missing eye and your ravens Thought and Memory – you would be proud of this, your day.  Create new life with Spore Creature Creator, listen to music that is both free and DRM free, get a good entry level PhysX enabled card from Nvidia to kill mortals in COD4, and go [...]

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Smashing Pumpkins 114 DRM free songs for $19.99

Whoops! One deal slipped by me this morning and it's cool enough to warrant a post all it's own.  Rhapsody is offering the Smashing Pumpkin's Rarities and B-sides album (that means 114 DRM-free tracks in 256-Kbps MP3) for $19.99.  That's roughly eighteen cents a song.  If you're in to the Pumpkins then this is almost a steal.  The last time Rhapsody did something like this, with Led Zep, the deal only lasted until about 2pm EST so jump on this quick if you want it.

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Every single Led Zeppelin song in DRM free MP3 format for $9.99

Hey folks, if you’re just showing up here, which a lot of you are, this deal ended on July 10th.  Sorry. Holy Houses of the Holy!  Rhapsody MP3 has the Complete Led Zeppelin online for $9.99.  That’s about $50 cheaper than you’ll find it anywhere else.  Available on lin 256-Kbps MP3 format – but who [...]

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