If you’re a PC gamer, chances are good you have a GOG account and appreciate their cheap DRM free games as well as their superior customer service that treats the end-user like a human being rather than a walking wallet. Though they’ve stayed true to their mission statement in continuing to offer a wide selection of games both new and old for low prices and without bothersome DRM, it seems they want to take their philosophy into the realm of movies as well.

In the blog post, GOG details their plans for the future; offering game-related movies and documentaries for low prices and without any DRM whatsoever. Of course, this isn’t without its problems since the movie industry is even more notorious for distrusting the customer than the gaming industry once was. GOG seems to address this in their blog post however:

Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: “We love your ideas, but … we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk”. DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation. We kind of felt that would be the case and that it’s gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right. That’s quite a journey ahead of us, but every gamer knows very well that great adventures start with one small step. So why not start with something that feels very familiar? We offer you a number of gaming and internet culture documentaries – all of them DRM-Free, very reasonably priced, and presenting some fascinating insight into topics close to a gamer’s heart.

As a gesture of goodwill, GOG has put up two movies for free.

With GOG now offering new games as well as movies, it’s getting hard for me to see them as “Good Old Games”. Perhaps a re-branding or renaming is in order. Especially if the movie thing works out for them.