CD Projekt Red

CD Projekt Red is a Polish video game company based in Warsaw, founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński, two game retailers who began by importing and then translating Western games for the Polish market. Its development studio, formed in 2002, is best known for The Witcher series, built on the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski, and for Cyberpunk 2077, released in 2020. The company also launched the digital distribution service Good Old Games, now GOG.com, in 2008, with a stated aim of selling games without digital rights management. It became a listed company through a 2010 merger with Optimus S.A. and has been a large publicly traded video game firm in Europe. For the atlas it matters as an example of a studio that grew from retail and localization into an internationally known developer of story-driven role-playing games.