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GoG.com has yet another new addition to its growing DRM-free line up of classic PC games. Today you can download and purchase the turn-based fantasy strategy game Lords of Magic for just $5.99. The game includes the original version and its expansion pack Legends of Urak.

The game was originally released in 1998 by the now defunct Impressions Games for the also now defunct Sierra/Vivendi Games. As we reported last week, UK-based developed Rebellion bought the rights to Lords of Magic and a number of other Vivendi Games titles and has plans to release new entries in the game series at some point.

The merger of Vivendi Games with Activision in 2008 to form Activision Blizzard left a ton of former Vivendi Games properties looking for new owners. Many of them found new homes with various publishers. One of them was UK-based developer Rebellion, best known for their work on the first PC Aliens Vs Predator game. Currently the developer is working on a new AVP game for publisher Sega along with the first person shooter Rogue Warrior for publisher Bethesda Softworks.

Last week, the DRM-free download site GoG.com revealed they were adding new games owned by Rebellion to their catalog. What wasn't mentioned at the time of the announcement was that the games were actually former Vivendi Games titles that were not previously owned or developed by Rebellion. That got our curiosity up and we decided to contact Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley to get more information.Kingsley confirmed to us that they now own the rights to release several former Vivendi Games titles. You can check out the breakdown after the jump: