GOG Offers Printable Big Boxes to Preserve Classic PC Games
GOG is expanding its preservation efforts by providing users with 3D scans and printable box art for classic PC games. This initiative allows fans to recreate physical big-box releases at home. It stands in contrast to the industry's move away from physical media and ensures long-term access to digital titles.
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"If they won't give you physical games, make your own" - GOG now lets you turn digital games into big box PC releases, and my shelf is already sobbing
GOG has expanded its Preservation Program to allow users to download and print 3D scans of original big-box PC game packaging. This initiative, in collaboration with Big Box Collection, aims to preserve classic titles like Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, and Myst, enabling fans to create their own physical releases at home.
Corporations want to kill physical media because it suits them, but Big Box PC game packaging just got a second chance
GOG is offering printable big boxes for classic PC games, tapping into a renewed interest in physical media. This initiative, in collaboration with Big Box Collection, provides fans with a way to recreate the tangible experience of buying PC games from the nineties, contrasting with the perceived risks of digital ownership and the discontinuation of physical PlayStation titles by Sony.
As publishers like Sony kill physical games, DRM-free store GOG preserves classic big boxes with 3D models and box art…
As Sony moves away from physical PlayStation games, the DRM-free storefront GOG is enhancing its preservation program. GOG is now offering interactive 3D scans of classic PC game box art and printable versions for fans to recreate physical boxes at home. This initiative aims to preserve not just the games but also their packaging and included supplements.
As Sony prepares to end game disc production, GOG jumps up to remind PC gamers that you can just make your own
GOG is reminding PC gamers that they can create their own physical backups of purchased games, especially in light of Sony's decision to end game disc production in 2028. The company highlights its DRM-free installers as a way to ensure long-term access to owned titles, suggesting users can burn them to discs or save them to other media for permanent safekeeping.
