

in a deal intended to reorganise CD Projekt as a publicly traded company. In 2009, CD Projekt's then-parent company, CDP Investment, announced its plans to merge with Optimus S.A.

Its mission is to offer games free of digital rights management (DRM) to players and its service was expanded to cover new AAA and independent games. In 2020, the company released Cyberpunk 2077, a role-playing game based on the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop game system for which it opened a new division in Wrocław.Ī video game distribution service, GOG.com, was established by CD Projekt to help players find old games. CD Projekt later released The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings in 2011 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015, with the latter winning various Game of the Year awards. It became The Witcher, a video game based on the works of novelist Andrzej Sapkowski.Īfter the release of The Witcher, CD Projekt worked on a console port called The Witcher: White Wolf but development issues and increasing costs almost led the company to the brink of bankruptcy. The game was cancelled and the company decided to reuse the code for their own video game. CD Projekt was working on the PC version of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance when Interplay experienced financial difficulties.

The company began by translating major video-game releases into Polish, collaborating with Interplay Entertainment for two Baldur's Gate games. In 2008, CD Projekt launched the digital distribution service Good Old Games, now known as GOG.com. The department responsible for developing original games, CD Projekt Red (stylised as CD PROJEKT RED), best known for The Witcher series, was formed in 2002. Iwiński and Kiciński were video game retailers before they founded the company, which initially acted as a distributor of foreign video games for the domestic market. ( Polish: ) is a Polish video game developer, publisher and distributor based in Warsaw, founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński.
