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GoG.com has put the previous two games in the Empire Earth RTS series in its library and today the DRM-free web site has announced that that they have added Empire Earth III to its game line-up. The game was first released in 2007 by developer Mad Doc Software (now Rockstar New England) and publisher Vivendi Games. As we have reported before the Empire Earth franchise is now owned by Rebellion who have announced tentative plans for more games in the series.

Empire Earth III is now available to download from GoG.com for $9.99. Also, GoG.com has announced a permanent price cut on another game, Beyond Divinity, to just $5.99.

GoG.com's DRM-free line up gets yet another new addition this week. It's Empire Earth II, the 2005 centuries spanning RTS game from developer Mad Doc Software. The developer, who later got bought by Rockstar Games and was renamed Rockstar New England, took over the Empire Earth franchise from its creator, the now defunct Stainless Steel Studios.

This edition of the game contains both the original title and its expansion pack Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy. You can download and purchase the game from GoG.com for $9.99. As we first reported several months ago the Empire Earth franchise is now owned by Rebellion, who have expressed an interest in possibly making new games in the series.

Just over a year ago the New England-based game developer Mad Doc Software got purchased by Rockstar Games and was renamed Rockstar New England. Now the developer is rumored to be suffering from layoffs, according to a non-sourced article at Kotaku.

According to their report, the developer may have had layoffs that affected "at least 10 percent of the studio". As Mad Doc Software, the studio created mostly PC games including the RTS games Star Trek Armada II and Empire Earth II and III. As Rockstar New England, the only game they have released was the PC port of Rockstar's Bully: Scholarship Edition which was filled with bugs when it was released in the fall of 2008.