CD Projekt S.A. (Gloss: [ˌt͡sɛˈdɛ ˈprɔjɛkt] is a Polish video game programmer, author as well as distributor based in Warsaw, founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński as well as Michał Kiciński. Iwiński and Kiciński were computer game retailers prior to they started the firm, which initially served as a distributor of foreign computer game for the residential market. The division in charge of establishing original video games, CD Projekt Red, best understood for The Witcher series, was developed in 2002. In 2008, CD Projekt introduced the digital distribution service GOG.com (initially as Good Old Gamings). The company began by translating major video-game launches into Polish, teaming up with Interplay Home entertainment for two Baldur s Gateway games. CD Projekt was servicing the PC variation of Baldur s Entrance: Dark Alliance when Interplay experienced monetary difficulties. The video game was terminated and also the business made a decision to recycle the code for their very own video game. It became The Witcher, a computer game based upon the works of Andrzej Sapkowski. After the launch of The Witcher, CD Projekt worked with a console port called The Witcher: White Wolf; however growth issues and also raising expenses almost led the firm to the brink of bankruptcy. CD Projekt later released The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings in 2011 and also The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2015, with the latter winning numerous Video game of the Year honors. In 2020, the firm launched Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world parlor game based on the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop game system, for which it opened up a brand-new division in Wrocław. A computer game distribution service, GOG.com, was developed by CD Projekt to help players locate old video games. Its objective is to supply games devoid of digital civil liberties monitoring (DRM) to players and its solution was expanded to cover brand-new AAA and independent games. In 2009, CD Projekt s then-parent company, CDP Investment, announced its plans to combine with Optimus S.A. in an offer intended to reorganise CD Projekt as an openly traded firm. The merging was enclosed December 2010 with Optimus as the legal surviving entity; Optimus became the current manifestation of CD Projekt S.A. in July 2011. By September 2017, it was the biggest publicly traded video clip game firm in Poland, worth regarding US$ 2.3 billion, as well as by May 2020, had actually gotten to an appraisal of US$ 8.1 billion, making it the largest computer game sector company in Europe ahead of Ubisoft. CD Projekt signed up with WIG20, an index of the 20 biggest business on the Warsaw Stock Market, in March 2018.
CD Projekt , the Polish study behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, has announced the acquisition of the Indie Study The Molasses Flood , authors of The Flame in the Flood . And they are already working on a game based on one of the CD Projekt IP.
The Molasses Flood will maintain its name and structure, although they are expanding their rows for this new and more ambitious project, of which they would love to talk, but at the moment we will have to wait .
Exciting News for Us today! We ve joined the cd Projekt Family, and are Working on a Project Within One of the Existing Universes ???????? pic.twitter.com/8JHWYLIFKH.
- The Molasses Flood is Hiring! (@molassesflood) October 22, 2021
Forrest Dowling, director of The Molasses Flood, explains that since the beginning of the negotiations, CD Projekt made it clear that they were not going to absorb them, and will continue to work relatively independently, signing as The Molasses Flood - A CD Projekt Studio .
Previously, Dowling worked at Irotional Games (Bioshock Infinite) and Kaos Studios (Homefront, Frontline: Fuel Fo War).
During this year s investor meetings, CD Projekt already explained his plans to expand his franchises (The Witcher and Cyberpunk) with other games, especially after the bad results of the Cyberpunk 2077 launch.
A good example of this is The Witcher Monster Slayer , the mobile game that came out this summer, of augmented reality, in the Pokémon GO style. Monster Slayer was developed by Spokko , another of the internal studies that form CD Projekt (whose main equipment, CD Projekt Network, is the one who signs the large RPG).
CD Projekt wants to diversify your offer with spin-offs and products derived from your two main franchises , and this movement is a clear example of this. To this, you have to add license your IPS for auxiliary markets, such as comics, merchandising, cinema or television.
Netflix is home to the successful series of The Witcher, which although it adapts Sapkowski s books and not video games, Both products are feedback and helped each other , and in fact Netflix and CD Projekt collaborated this summer In the first Witchercon.
In addition, Netflix is producing an anime series based on Cyberpunk 2077, Cyberpunk Edgerunners.
Now the question is, will it be a game based on The Witcher or in Cyberpunk 2077? At the moment, in 2022 the versions of PS5 and Xbox Series from The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 will be launched, because this week it was announced that they were delayed.
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