Rebellion games hit GOG.com, we give them to you (just like that) [update]

Before teaming up with Sega recently for a new iteration of Aliens vs Predator, UK development house Rebellion made a handful of classic PC titles (yes, we know, including the original Aliens vs Predator). Starting today and continuing over the course of the next few weeks, GOG.com will be offering the company's titles through its site (DRM-free, XP and Vista compatible game, priced to move), starting with Ground Control (Dark Conspiracy expansion included) and Evil Genius. Lords of Magic, Empire Earth, "and more" are in the pipeline for the next few weeks.

To celebrate the release, the fine folks at Good Old Games were nice enough to hand us a few codes -- seven in all, just to keep you on your toes -- for not just the games released today but, well, anything on the site you'd like. That's right, folks, you can use the codes on anything from Elixir's Evil Genius to Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil to Epic's Unreal Tournament (and everything in between, in case you were wondering). All you have to do is keep your eye on the Joystiq Twitter page over the course of the day to try and win one of them. Hit the break for an exhilarating explanation of how to redeem a code.

Update: All codes have been redeemed! Thanks to everyone who participated and to GOG.com for providing us with the codes.

Obtain an account at GOG.com and/or login
Choose the game you'd like to use your code with
Proceed to checkout (do not pay!)
Hit the "Redeem Promo Code" button when applicable and, well, redeem your code
Voila ici!

Reader Comments (52)

I like GoG, but 9 Bucks for some of these old games is a bit too much, when they cost less than 5 on Ebay.

Too bad I don't live anywhere people on Ebay ship cheaply to... >_>

do you really think most of these games would straight up run on your computer? You're paying an extra $5 for XP/Vista compatibility on a lot of these games

Most of them run with just a bit of tweaking. On the off chance that they don't, I just happen to have a computer that runs win2k and DosBox.

so I just have to watch the twitter feed, not make an account or any of that shit?

You need to make an account and be logged in, with a game in your shopping cart. Then enter the code on the payment screen to complete your free order.

Nice, I just scored the first code. I used it to get Fallout. Could have used it on a pricier game, but that's the one I wanted to play most. Thanks!

Im kind of glad I missed it

I was gonna get Beneath a Steal Sky, then I saw it was free anyways :D

"The code has already been used"

damn you slow internet connection from work

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Woo! I got code 2 on twitter! I used it on Beyond good and evil. :)

Thanks guys :D

Most of them run fine on DOSBox.

What, even all the windows games?

(actually, it's turning out to be much more of a hassle to get old windows games to run on windows than older dos games... stupid windows).

DAMN IT ALL

I was so close to getting BG&E D:

You'll never see me on twitter or facebook for ANY reason.

Am I getting old if those games don't sound really aged to me?

Hurry up with that third code. >:I

Stupid avatar.. why won't you update!? It's been four days now!

Both 3 and 4 have been taken now. Not by me. :(

that didn't take long for codes 3 & 4 to be used...

The two are gone already. And I got none...

Madness. The Tweet is up for less than ten seconds and the codes are already used.

ARGH!

Empire Earth was from Rebellion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_earth

I think the people posting the codes are using them themselves

*maniacal laughter*

HAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAH!

VANDELL STRIKES A CODE DOWN FOR EVIL GENIUS!

whoever used them sure is taking a while to tell us that they used them...
Especially considering they're apparently very much twitch-fingered when it comes to grabbing them.

YOU GUYS ARE WAY TOO FAST FOR ME

Copy and paste is your friend. :3

well, yeah. duh. I doubt anyone here actually wrote down the codes.

Second two codes gone as well.

Damn you people are fast...

Rebellion didnt make Evil Genius. They just obtained the rights to it after the developer went under. Was hoping they would make a sequel, but they dont seem to be looking at that right now I guess.

5&6 already gone too...

everyone who got a code can just go to hell

NO IM NOT ANGRY

I SECOND THAT....

AND I'M NOT ANGRY EITHER

YES!!! Code #5 is all mine! Time to play some Beyond Good and Evil.

Final code gone already lol

not 5 seconds went by before someone claimed the last code. =/

all gone. None for me. Sad day.
Meh, I'ma go buy myself a game to cheer myself up. :-P

Fucking horsehit, the last code was there for less than two seconds. I see a complot behind this.

Each of those codes was gone within seconds. Way less than that for the last few ones. :-(

Man, those codes were gone fast. I saw a tweet less than 5 seconds and when I entered it seconds later it was redeemed.

Congrats to those who win, for us others, I guess we can enjoy the 3 free games.

you all better be enjoying BaSS or you can burn in hell along with everyone who entered the codes before me

well shit, It looks like all I get today is Beneath a Steel Sky

oh well, I'll just pick up Broken Sword for Wii to get more of my P&C fill

Gay, just frackin gay.
I couldn't find the "Redeem Promo Code" anywhere on the site, checked everywhere.

learn2literacy

What?
All I said was I couldn't find the button for it. Checked in "My Cart", nowhere to be found, even tried "tabbing" through it and nothing popped up.
Clicked the only other thing I could, "Proceed to Payment", nothing there either, did the same thing as well.
Checked their FAQs section too, didn't find anything that helps.

How about saying something that might help instead of L2.

I redeemed the last code for Fallout 2. Thanks.

Someone grabbed that last one real fast. Damn you!

I'm hating on these "just enter the code" giveaway...at least when you pick a random comment I have some kind (no matter how slim) of a chance at winning...some of us have jobs that require us to do other things than refresh a twitter page 900 bajillion times to see if we can c&p a code faster than 800 other kids with too much time on their hands.

Grr. (And yes, I AM angry. lol)

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