Staff digital distribution service games GOG.com announced to move their Steam-like online platform GOG Galaxy to the stage of open beta testing. This means that test the functionality of the platform GOG Galaxy can be anyone, just by clicking on it official page .
GOG Galaxy is a DRM-free online platform, the functionality corresponding to Steam. The GOG Galaxy also has a library of games, friends list, the ability to correspond chatting and earn achievements. The task of the Galaxy also includes installation, start-up and updating games. In addition, the hero of the news in the individual (yet) cases implies the possibility of cross-platform games with users of Steam, which can be very useful.
The developers claim that the use GOG Galaxy is not necessary if the user is more convenient to deal with their games through the site, then so be it. The player is free to decide, and rightly so.
Despite the fact that GOG.com has been actively expanding into the Russian market, the beta version of the GOG Galaxy is available only in English. Other languages will be added in the near future.
So far, the service is only available for Windows and OS X version 10.8 is not ancient. Linux support will be added later.
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