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GoG.com is holding its usual weekend sales event now and the DRM-free PC game web site is offering four adventure games for 50 percent off their normal GoG.com price for the next few days. You can get The Journeyman Project 2 for just $2.99, while The Longest Journey, Tex Murphy The Pandora Directive and Sanitarium are on sale for $4.99 each.

GoG.com has also announced as part of its continuing 14 day holiday reveal event that it has been making more progress on making its older games work with the Windows 7 operating system. Today it announced that two of its games, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura and Myst: Masterpiece Edition, now can be run with both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7. Folks who have already bought the games can redownload and install them on the new OS.

Several months ago, GoG.com became the only place where you could (legally) purchase and download the classic Tex Murphy adventure games from Access Software. Today GoG.com is offering a great early Christmas present as it gives away the first two games in the series (Mean Streets and Martians Memorandum) for free. The offer ends on Christmas Eve (December 24 for those who might not know). And for those of you who have already bought the games from GoG.com, don't fret; they have a secret alternate offer just for you.

In related news, GoG.com has added Riven: The Sequel to Myst, to their library of games. You can purchase and download the Cyan Worlds-developed adventure game for $5.99

GoG.com has finished celebrating its first anniversary but it's still got some cool sales for this weekend. From now until 11:59 pm ET on Monday the DRM-free PC game download site is offering all of the games in the classic Tex Murphy adventure games from Access Software for 30 percent off their normal GoG.com. price.

By the way, GoG.com has also posted up some interesting first year stats on the web site itself. While there are no business numbers revealed like revenue or profit figures, it does reveal that GoG.com uses 110 GB of hard drive space to hold all of the installers for its 155 games.

GoG.com recently got the rights to all of the Tex Murphy adventure games from the now former Access Software. Today they have added the fifth and final game in the series to their DRM-free PC game library. Tex Murphy Overseer, first released in 1998, can now be downloaded exclusively at GoG.com for $9.99. The download comes with a free manual, its music sountrack, avatars and wallpaper.

In other GoG.com news, they have put three of their racing games on sale from now until the end of the day on Monday. Colin McRae Rally 2005, Screamer and MegaRace 3 are all on sale for 50 percent off their normal GoG.com prices. In fact, GoG.com will soon lose the rights to sell Colin McRae Rally 2005 so this will be the last chance to get the game at such a low price.

Earlier this month, the DRM-free web site GoG.com announced they had gotten the exclusive rights to offer downloads of the great Tex Murphy adventure game titles from the now defunct Access Software. Today GoG.com has added the fourth game in the series to its site, The Pandora Directive.

First released in 1996, this game continued the trend of the series having full motion video that started with the previous Tex Murphy title Under an Killing Moon. It also boasts some Hollywood actors in the cast including Tanya Roberts, Barry Corbin and Kevin McCarthy. You can download the full game from GoG.com for just $9.99.

Fans of the classic Tex Murphy adventure games from the now defunct Access Software have reason to be happy today. The folks at our favorite DRM-free game download site GoG.com have announced that they have gotten the rights to sell all of the games in this series on their site.

They already have the first three games available for download. The first two titles, Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum, can be bought in a collection for just $5.99. That comes with manuals for both games, avatars, and a Mean Streets info chart and map. The third game in the series, Under a Killing Moon (and the first to use full motion video) can be bought for $9.99 at GoG.com. It comes with the manual, avatars and the in-game soundtrack.

Of course if you want to check out what the creators of the Tex Murphy games are up to now you can download a demo of their newly released game, Three Cards to Midnight, right here at Big Download.

Last September we were excited to learn about Three Cards to Midnight, an upcoming adventure game from Chris Jones and Aaron Connors, the main creators behind the classic Tex Murphy adventure game titles. The game, from their development company Big Finish Games, was supposed to have been released by the end of 2008 with a demo out beforehand.

Well that obviously didn't happen as planned and the game's official web site doesn't offer a new update to the game's progress. However a new message from Conners on the Unofficial Tex Murphy Web Site's message board finally gives an update on the game's progress. Conners states that in demoing the game to publishers and online sites, " ...there were some concerns about the scale and difficulty of the gameplay."

So Connors and Jones decided to go back and make some changes and that meant taking more time to finish the title. Conners states, "So...trying to be as realistic as possible, I think we'll have a finished game sometime in February."The update didn't say anything about the demo's release date which was supposed to have been sent out before the full game is released.

At the height of the full motion video adventure game era of the 1990s was Access Software who released a number of games in the Tex Murphy sci-fi mystery series including Under A Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive and Tex Murphy: Overseer. However Microsoft then bought out Access Software which effectively killed off the company's adventure game plans. Microsoft then sold off the company to Take Two Interactive in 2004 who renamed it Indie Built but then shut it down just two years later.

Now the main creative forces behind the Tex Murphy games, Chris Jones and Aaron Connors, have gotten back together to form Big Finish Games, a new development studio that is releasing (natch) a new adventure game called Three Cards to Midnight. The company has released a teaser trailer to the game and they have plans to release a demo in early October with the game itself set for release in November.

While there won't be any full motion video like in the Tex Murphy games, Three Cards to Midnight will have full voice acting and a storyline that seems to involve a woman trying to find out why she can't remember what has happened to her in her recent past. A tarot card is the apparent key to unlocking her memory. It sounds like the game is supposed to be relatively short; the web site says it will have over 6 hours of gameplay but with multiple endings. The game will be a digital download release but there's no word yet on a specifc price.

Download the HD Three Cards to Midnight Teaser Trailer (11 MB)