{"id":841205,"date":"2026-09-09T01:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841205\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:22:11","slug":"gog-brings-back-big-box-pc-games-one-printable-template-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/841205\/","title":{"rendered":"GOG brings back &#8220;big box&#8221; PC games, one printable template at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who remember PC gaming in <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2024\/11\/how-half-life-2-helped-sell-steam-to-a-skeptical-pc-gaming-market\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the days before Steam<\/a> may have fond memories of the \u201cbig box\u201d packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2022\/06\/inside-the-100k-forgery-scandal-thats-roiling-pc-game-collecting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sought-after in-home collectibles<\/a>. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those days by adding downloadable 3D models and printable, foldable high-res packaging scans for a handful of PC games on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the \u201cPrintable Big Box\u201d collection on GOG is limited to just five games: Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, Myst, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Players browsing those games on the GOG store will now see \u201c3D Boxes\u201d listed among the included \u201cGoodies\u201d before purchase. Owners of those games on GOG can download a ZIP file containing a version of the box art as an animated 3D object file (in an easy-to-open <a href=\"https:\/\/vsquad.art\/blog\/articles\/glb-file-what-it-is-how-it-works-and-why-this-3d-format-matters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GLB format<\/a>) and a \u201cflat printable template\u201d in PDF, SVG, and Adobe Illustrator formats. Those downloads allow for what GOG calls \u201ca proper papercraft project for anyone who misses shelves full of PC game boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" data-pswp-width=\"1438\" data-pswp-height=\"1134\" data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hitmanbox2.png\" target=\"_blank\" data-pswp-><br \/>\n              <img width=\"1438\" height=\"1134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hitmanbox2.png\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              The 3D model animates to show the front flap opening.<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Credit:<br \/>\n                                      GOG\n                                  <\/p>\n<p>\n      The 3D model animates to show the front flap opening.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          GOG<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysical media doesn\u2019t survive the way software can\u2014boxes get lost, crushed, thrown out,\u201d GOG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/pressroom\/gog-preservation-program-brings-the-big-box-nostalgia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes in today\u2019s announcement<\/a>. \u201cScanning them, and letting you print your own, is preservation in a different shape: the same mission that keeps these games running on modern PCs, applied to the objects they used to come in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the \u201cbig box\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-841205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}