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Birthday fun and gifts (for you!)
GOG.com 5th birthday celebration continues, and we came up with some fun activities essential to every nerd party in the universe. Namely, we want to play some trivia with you! There will be prizes, of course, because there have to be gifts in a birthday celebration. Since it is our party, you get to keep the gifts! We wouldn't have it any other way. But, just to make it more fun, you'll have to put some effort into getting them. For the next couple of days (let's say: until Sunday), we'll post a daily activity for you. A quiz, a puzzle, some trivia--you know: fun stuff. Each day you'll get a chance to prove your gaming knowledge and familiarity with GOG.com for a chance to get some free games. Our activity of choice today: word search!

UPDATE:
We got word from our support, that some users aren't sure where they should send the answers. Let's pretend that finding the e-mail address on the picture below is a little warm-up exercise before the actual word search. If you can't handle that task, there's probably not much point in wasting your time looking for the 40 titles. And one more thing: we didn't notice it ourselves, but there's actually 41 hidden titles in the picture (apart from the highlighted "FEZ"). That's because one of the longer ones contains another one, shorter. Still--we don't expect more than 40, and that gives you a bit of an advantage.

GOG.com Birthday Word Search

You've got time until Thursday, September 26, at 14:59PM GMT. That's 24 hours. Have fun! :-)

SOLUTION:

Here's an image provided by our user. Thanks Dan!
GOG.com Birthday Word Search Solution

The hidden titles are as follows:

1. Alan Wake
2. Alpha Centauri
3. Arcanum
4. Baldur's Gate
5. Bioforge
6. Blood
7. Caesar
8. Carmageddon
9. Descent
10. Dungeon Keeper
11. Fallout
12. Freespace
13. FTL
14. Gabriel Knight
15. Hotline Miami
16. Master of Magic
17. Master of Orion
18. Might and Magic
19. Myst
20. Nox
21. Outcast
22. Painkiller
23. Pharaoah
24. Pid
25. Populous
26. Postal
27. Psychonauts
28. Quest For Glory
29. Resonance
30. Sacrifice
31. Sim City
32. Star Control
33. Syndicate
34. The Witcher
35. Theme Hospital
36. Thief
37. To The Moon
38. Ultima
39. Wing Commander
40. Zeus
+ BONUS
41. ArmA (hiding within Carmageddon)

The 40 quickest winners should have the prizes in their email inboxes now. The draw of the other 20 will be done later today.

Congratulations to all winners!
Post edited September 26, 2013 by G-Doc
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JinseiNGC224: Anyone find a game that's not on GOG?
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DrRoxo: Yeah, two for now: Aion and DOTA.
and GTA
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Psyringe: 40! Finally!

That was fun. :)

Edit:
As a hint for others: It really helped me to copy the riddle into paint and strike out the solutions I already found.
Thank you for the hint - once I started marking my answers off with a sharpie (I printed the puzzle off, of course!), it only took me about five minutes to find the nine titles I was missing.
When comes the next riddle?
I write mini program on AS2. And get all string. If someone needs to send me a PM.
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GOG.com: UPDATE:
We got word from our support, that some users aren't sure where they should send the answers. Let's pretend that finding the e-mail address on the picture below is a little warm-up exercise before the actual word search. If you can't handle that task, there's probably not much point in wasting your time looking for the 40 titles.
*Thumbs up* That brought a broad grin on my face.
Hm, I noticed only now that I am unable to send it.
Every time I try it it returns to me and says that the message was marked as spam. :-(
It seems GOG won't see my searching genius.
29...

Dang it!
I hope after the end of the contest will be posted a list of words from the administration. I would like to compare.
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JinseiNGC224: Anyone find a game that's not on GOG?
Yeah, "SIN". Had written it down, even, and then realized GOG doesn't sell it :) But I guess three letter combos can happen randomly easily enough...
Suspect I was just too late, but found 40 and submitted a few minutes ago- of all the times not to have a chance to go online and catch this earlier! :)

It'll be interesting to hear what the 'proper' 40th word was; mine was the one contained in another answer.
Post edited September 26, 2013 by Timelord1963
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RPGler: When comes the next riddle?
Don't know about riddle, but something else has been up for a while...
I found 20 and I'm very proud of it! :<
Huh, I got to 41 without resorting to one hidden within another word.

Now it just keeps bugging me that there's supposed to be at least one I've missed...

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JinseiNGC224: Anyone find a game that's not on GOG?
Borg & R.O.B. There's also Siam & Ogre, but those are board games.

Edit: So I missed ArmA and Fez didn't count as one of the 40, that could have been made more clear.
Post edited September 26, 2013 by Mavado
I won! Thanks GOG and Happy Birthday :-)
Stuck to 38 >_<!
And I forgot to check GMT time.. now time's up and I didn't send my list.. :'(

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EDIT:
Missed PID and Thief
Post edited September 26, 2013 by nucciurini