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Ziggurat free for 48 hours!

On June 11, 2018   /   Free games, Free Mac Games, GOG.com Games, News, Promo   /   Leave a comment

Week Two of #SummerGaming opens with a ZIGGURAT giveaway – it’s free to keep! The Painkiller-ish, Hexen-ish, frantic first-person shooter ticks all the boxes – that means magic, powerups, tons of weapons, badass bosses, carrots. All that in a rogue-lite package with more replayability than you can shake your wand at. The giveaway lasts 48 hours until June 13, 1 PM UTC.

There’s still plenty of time to unlock a free copy of Sunless Sea (spend just 5$ in the sale) and RiME (pick up 20$ worth of games). To help you with that, we’ve added even more games to the Sale lineup, including FAR: Lone Sails, Mages of Mystralia, Mainlining, and Commandos.

Go to promo page for the free game up here…

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GOG.com updated your personal library, download the “Offline Backup game Installer”!

On June 7, 2018   /   GOG.com Games, News   /   Leave a comment

It looks like GOG.com updated their game library encouraging the GOG Legacy client. However, this are not the files Porting Kit uses. You need the “Offline backup game Installer” file(s). Using the GOG galaxy setup files will result in install failures. So make sure to use the “Offline backup game Installer” only! We will implant a feature in Porting Kit that recognize the wrong GOG.com galaxy files and will ask to download the correct ones.

I already asked them to at least expand the option, so you can see the file instantly so you are able to download it.

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GOG.com Summer Sale up to -90% for 1000+ titles and free Xenonauts for 48 hours!

On June 4, 2018   /   Free games, News, Promo   /   Leave a comment

GOG.com announces their summer sale up to 90% discount for 1000+ Titles! GOG.com announces: “We don’t like sand. It’s coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. That’s why every year we prepare something that will keep people away from the beach for long – the hottest Summer Promo around! Over 1000 games up to 90% OFF so it’s great opportunity to pump your revenue up!”

“Our biggest annual sale starts today, 15:00 CEST and we want you to get ready. It will last for 2 weeks, feature over 1000 games, and include very exciting giveaways. What’s more? Stretch goals are back! Spending 5$ a user will get Sunless Sea for FREE (20$ to get RIME).”

Free Xenonauts (Mac) for 48 hours:
Saving the world ain’t simple, Xenonauts (Also for Mac) recaptures the original X-COM: UFO Defense gameplay for all its depth and complexity – a highly recommended play for curious fans of the X-COM reboots and series purists alike. The Xenonauts giveaway starts June 4th, 15:00 CEST and will last 48 hours until June 6, 15:00 CEST.

Go to the promo page on GOG.com up here…

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Red Alert and Red Alert 2 Wrapper update!

On June 4, 2018   /   News, Origin, Portingkit, Wrapper updates   /   Leave a comment
Red Alert and Red Alert 2 Wrapper update!

Update 6-June-2018:
We fixed an Engine extract failure which some people experienced. That should work properly now with latest update yesterday. So if you experienced the issue. Try again and it should work fine now.

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I have done lots of stuff for Porting Kit this weekend. Lets start with Red Alert and Red Alert 2 :)

Red Alert:
Red Alert was working quite well already but had after longer game-play a habit to crash or loose the mouse capture in especially multiplayer or skirmish games. That problem is addressed in the latest Wrapper update of Red Alert and works stable as never before! If you have Red Alert installed then it is is required to trash the wrapper in Porting Kit on your local tab, and reinstall it on your server tab.

Red Alert 2:
Red Alert 2 has a long history as well with all kind of changes from stability also due to Origin’s updates. You may have read the news I fixed the Origin Client issue earlier last week. Now this past weekend I took the time to test the latest Winestaging engine and it seems to run remarkably good. I earlier used a specific mod and extra files to get some better performance, but still it would crash regularly. I tested with the latest Wrapper update and I played 1.5 hours in a row without a single crash. It even doesn’t require any manual actions (adding files or using mods). So finnally we have a stable build of this game. Eager to check it out? Get the C&C Ultimate collection cheap here… and start play this game again!

Go to the Red Alert game pages here… and here…

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Origin Wrappers “online login not available” fixed!

On June 4, 2018   /   News, Origin, Wrapper updates   /   Leave a comment
Origin Wrappers "online login not available" fixed!

Due to an Origin update, people got the message: “online login not available” when people launched Origin to play their games. This issue has been addressed now and all Origin wrappers in Porting Kit are updated with the fix. This does mean that you have to reinstall the game with the new wrapper, or if to many things or on stake, you can do an manual action to fix it:

Manual fix (if you don’t want to reinstall):
Download the latest setup file from Origin (windows exe) and place that in the c: of the game folder (click more —> open c:) and then place the file in the c:\. Then go to more —> wineskin tools —> open wineskin —> advanced —> browse —> navigate to the setup file and click “choose”. This will make Porting Kit start the origin.exe in good way without issues about offline.

Have fun with the Origin games!

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Uplay update and Wrapper update Valiant Hearts!

On May 28, 2018   /   News, Portingkit, Uplay, Wrapper updates   /   Leave a comment

We have working hard this weekend fixing issues/bugs in the game clients Origin and Uplay. There has been some issues with Uplay and with the some games itself. I applied a general fix for the Uplay client by using the latest Winestaging engine 3.9, which fixes a bug  in the Uplay client. Besides that I am checking/updating the Uplay games in Porting Kit.

The first game (more coming up this week) I updated is Valiant Hearts. It seemed that Valiant Hearts was not working anymore and besides that had a sound bug. Both Issues are adressed now, and this means you can play this awesome game again on your Mac! Really a recommended game!

Go to the game page up here…

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Porting Kit news.

On May 28, 2018   /   News, Portingkit   /   Leave a comment
Porting Kit news.

As you may know there has been a lot going on in Porting Land. We have lots of things we need to think about and working on, especially concerning future 32-bit support drop by Apple in later OS updates. As you also may know we had a Linux version of Porting Kit planned for the future, but because of the Mac OS advancement, we decided to make this a priority. So Vitor is working hard to create a Linux version of Porting Kit, which should work with the existing “game port scripts” (WSI2 files) we have for Mac (just like in Crossover the cross-ties work for bot Linux and Mac). There is only 1 difference in Linux, which is that there is no such thing as “Macdriver”. So this will be X11 instead. Hower, the pro thing in Linux is, that there is much better support for Directx11. So games like Witcher 3 and others are possible in there. So that’s something to look forward too.

Besides that we are working on something new as well in Porting Kit called: PKE “Porting Kit Environment” which will be a complete “environment” and more cool stuff, but more info follows, when things progress. In short, we never sit still although it may be that there is some silence for a while.

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GOG.com Weekend sale THQ Nordic Games up to 80% off!

On May 25, 2018   /   GOG.com Games, News, Promo   /   Leave a comment
GOG.com Weekend sale THQ Nordic Games up to 80% off!

You’re into RPGs, perhaps? Turn-based, action, or just plain EPIC RPGs? Maybe you’d rather go with strategy, adventure, or action-adventure. Doesn’t matter, really, since THQ Nordic’s catalog’s got it all. In spades. Also discounts up to 80%. In today’s Weekend Sale.

85 games are included in the sale from which 14 also for Mac and Linux. Like The Dwarves (-67%) and The Book of Unwritten Tales (75% off). But also games like Battle Worlds: Kronos (-75%) and This is the Police with 67% off and many more!

Then for the discounted games left we have in Porting Kit, almost 40 game ports available to use! I will mention a couple important ones which are most popular and biggest discount. For the Delta Force series (-75%), Titan Quest (-80!!%) Red Faction series (75% off) and Desperado’s series (75% discount) Black Mirror Series (-75%) and many many more! Simply double-check in porting kit server tab if the game is in porting kit and get the game and download the setup and porting kit will do the rest!

The THQ Nordic Weekend Sale ends May 28, 10pm UTC.

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UNREAL 20th Anniversary: Unreal Gold free for 48 Hours!

On May 23, 2018   /   Free, GOG.com Games, News   /   Leave a comment

Great news on GOG.com! It’s been 20 years since we crash-landed on a planet full of ugly aliens, snazzy guns, and conveniently places power-ups. Today we’re going back for a nostalgic trip FREE of charge! You can then download the setup file and install it into Portingkit on the server tab of the Porting Kit app.

Together with Epic Games, we are celebrating this anniversary with a 48h giveaway of Unreal Gold, the hallmark FPS that expanded the shooter genre with open areas, sweet weapon upgrades and, well, unreal lighting effects. Grab it for FREE through our front page banner until May 24, 5pm UTC. Remember to redeem your code before June 7th, 10pm UTC.

Then make sure to grab the rest of the Unreal series at 80% off until May 29, 5pm UTC.

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GOG version of Mafia 2 added to Porting Kit!

On April 23, 2018   /   Action, GOG.com Games, News, Portingkit   /   Comments Off on GOG version of Mafia 2 added to Porting Kit!

For the ones owning Mafia 2 om GOG.com I have good news, I made a GOG.com source available for those people :) Have fun!

Install is simple:
1. Get Porting Kit or Crossover if you don’t have it yet.
2. Then download the GOG.com setup file from Mafia 2 from GOG into your download folder.
3. Then in Porting Kit search the game in the library –> server tab and click install.
4. After installation of the game, “exit” the GOG installer.
5. Click “Play” to start the game! Have fun!

Game Description:
Mafia with a mature and compelling narrative that will immerse players like never before. From the mean streets of Little Italy and Chinatown to the dizzying heights of its glittering skyline, find out if you have what it takes to be somebody in the city of Empire Bay. Immerse yourself in a violent criminal underworld in an all-consuming quest to become a man of honor.

Go to the Porting Kit game page for more info up here…

Mafia 2 for Mac

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