GOG's new client aims to integrate all your games and friends across PC and consoles Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. GOG's new client aims to integrate all your games and friends across PC and consoles The "all-in-one solution for the present-day gamer". News by Matt Wales Reporter Updated on 22 May 2019 49 comments PC storefront GOG is in the throes of updating its Galaxy client to version 2.0, and its ambitious aim is to integrate all game libraries and friend lists across PC and consoles into one pleasingly convenient place. GOG Galaxy in its current form offers a smartly featured, and optional, Steam-like client for buying, browsing, and launching GOG games. However, its upcoming 2.0 release is designed to create what GOG calls "the all-in-one solution for the present-day gamer". It's intended to enable you to import all your game libraries from PC and consoles so that you can organise them into a single master collection. You'll obviously only be able launch your PC games via the client, but GOG says it intends to have integration with all major platforms. There's no confirmed list of what those might be, but it seems reasonable to assume the likes of Steam, Origin, and the Epic Store. Additionally, you'll have access to all your achievements, hours played, and games owned across all platforms, on both PC and consoles. As for your friends, scattered as they may be across various platforms and storefronts, GOG says that its new client will bundle up all the goings-on in your gaming circle, displaying your friends' cross-platform achievements, game time milestones, and recently played titles in a single activity feed. There's also a leaderboard system based on things like collecting, completing, and game time, for an added bit of communal fun. GOG also hopes to display the likes of upcoming releases and games popular among friends and other users, and there are plans for a unified friend list and cross-platform chat - although it sounds like these are due further down the line. You'll find a few more technical details regarding the overhauled platform over on the Galaxy 2.0 site, and if you'd like to take the new client for a spin yourself, it'll first be available as part of a closed beta. There's no start date for that, but you're free to register your interest right now. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Modder dives into Demon's Souls files following PS5 jailbreak, discovers fabled Ring of the Chieftain Who knows what's nexus? 5 Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 11 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store