Congratulations to our member GOG for winning the DPC Award in the catagory ‘Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third Sector’ yesterday!!!
GOG was awarded for their GOG Preservation Program, which was launched with 100 titles in November 2024. By February 2026, the count had grown to 267 titles with over 1,460 individual preservation improvements applied: compatibility fixes, restored content, stability patches, and quality-of-life enhancements. Each title in the Program has a public preservation log documenting the specific changes GOG’s team made, providing transparency about what was done and why. All titles in the Program ship DRM-free. Users receive standalone installers they can store, back up, and run independently of any online service. If a platform shuts down, the software keeps working. Users do not depend on a server remaining online to access their games. This is a deliberate preservation design choice.
The Digital Preservation Awards are the leading international celebration of achievement in digital preservation, organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) every two years, . The Awards recognize the people, projects, and organizations making outstanding contributions to securing our digital legacy. The fact that GOG won the award is further impressive proof that games have become part of our cultural heritage 🙂
