Michal Kicinski, co-founder of CD Projekt, acquires 100% of the PC game store GOG

Michal Kicinski has acquired the entire PC video game sales platform GOG, of which he is co-founder, after 17 years within the CD Projekt Group, and has assured that it will continue to operate independently and free of DRM (digital rights management).

GOG was born in 2008 by Kicinski and Marcin Iwinski with the idea of ​​”returning classic games to players and guaranteeing that, once they buy a game, it belongs to them forever”, as Kicinski himself recalled in a press release.

This platform has operated within the CD Projekt Group for 17 years, although it has done so independently and cooperating with the CD PROJEKT RED studio so that The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 franchise games reached players around the world.

Kicinski’s acquisition of one hundred percent of GOG’s shares will maintain their independence and the support they provide to players and developers through their DRM-free philosophy, as stated in the press release.

The store will maintain CD PROJEKT RED titles and will grow with “new games with a retro spirit” in whose development Kicinski participates, who is confident that “they will have great success on GPG in 2026.”

The acquisition has been closed for a value of 90.7 million zlotys (about 21.5 million euros at the exchange rate), which is financed entirely through committed financing, without implying the sale of Kicinski’s shares in CD PROJEKT, of which he is also a co-founder.