CD Projekt has bought its PC sport retailer, GOG.com, to its co-founder, Michał Kiciński.
GOG is targeted on DRM-free digital video games, together with trendy releases and the preservation of traditional video games, and has operated inside Witcher and Cyberpunk proprietor CD Projekt for over 17 years.
On Monday, CD Projekt introduced that its co-founder and main shareholder, Michał Kiciński, is buying 100% of the shares in GOG for PLN 90.7 million ($25.2m). As a part of the deal, CD Projekt and GOG have signed a distribution settlement that features a plan to launch CD Projekt Purple’s upcoming video games on the platform.
Michał Nowakowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt, mentioned the sale would enable it to deal with sport improvement whereas GOG stays in “superb fingers”.
“With our focus now totally on an formidable improvement roadmap and increasing our franchises with new high-quality merchandise, we felt this was the precise time for this transfer,” he mentioned.
“For a very long time now, GOG has been working independently. Now it’s going into superb fingers — we’re satisfied that with the assist of Michał Kiciński, one in every of GOG’s co-founders, its future shall be filled with nice initiatives and successes.
“We want to thank the GOG crew for years of fruitful cooperation and want all of them the perfect. And to the GOG neighborhood, I say ‘see you round’, as a result of our upcoming releases will naturally be obtainable on GOG as nicely.”
In his personal assertion, Kiciński mentioned GOG will proceed to uphold its values of “freedom, independence, and a real sense of possession”.
The co-founder mentioned that, in a PC market that “retains shifting towards necessary purchasers and closed ecosystems”, he believes GOG’s method is “extra related than ever”.
“I consider that CD Projekt, with its distinctive AAA video games, will stand, as at all times, behind the GOG providing — making GOG the perfect place on the planet to buy The Witcher and Cyberpunk video games, each current titles and the brand new ones all of us anticipate a lot,” he mentioned.
“As a mature gamer, I typically play traditional video games myself and deeply admire the creativity behind lots of them. I really consider that well-crafted classics can ship as a lot pleasure as new releases. In relation to pure playability, timeless video games typically show to be actually the protected alternative, particularly in a market flooded with gazillions of low-quality smaller video games.
“Past preserving classics, GOG has at all times sought out new video games with a retro spirit. I’m personally concerned within the improvement of some video games like that, and they’ll definitely make their sturdy look on GOG in 2026.”
