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Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
submitted 3 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world
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The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.

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[โ€“] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gog goes another step and provides a guarantee on stuff they've modified to ensure it works, and provide an offline installer that's entirely self-contained for archviing purposes.

[โ€“] Quazatron@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I prefer to buy GOG when possible, Steam second. I even have some duplicated titles across vendors.