CDP Sp. z o.o.

Moby ID: 5036

History add

October 22, 2012

The company changed its name to CDP.pl Sp. z o.o.

October 23, 2009

Polish company Optimus concludes the acquisition of CDP Investment, the holding company which includes CD Projekt Sp. z o.o.

October 23, 2008

The company launches GOG.com (Good Old Games) as a purchase-for-download portal.

February 2008

The company acquires development company Metropolis Software House.

2003

Broadened their localization services and localized 30 different game versions externally for other companies.

July 1, 2002

Established the CD Projekt Czech s.r.o. division in Prague, becoming the official distributor of 3DO, Disney Interactive, Interplay/Virgin, Paradox and Wanadoo titles in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

March 2002

Starts to publish games for the Playstation, Playstation 2 and Gameboy Advance consoles.

February 2002

The company's Red Studio was opened - a division of their company dedicated to creating PC games. Currently, Red Studio is working on an action RPG The Witcher, based on the works of Andrzej Sapkowski.

2001

Children's division created with the intention of publishing quality games without violence and some educational value.

2000

Published Planescape: Torment, Diablo II, Colin McRae Rally 2.0 and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn with the latter two holding the top two places in the years top ten best sellers in EMPiK stores.

1999

A new and groundbreaking sales record was set, when Baldur's Gate (published in Poland by CD Projekt) sold more than 18 thousand copies in just a couple of months. For this incredible (considering the market situation in 1999) feat, CD Projekt was awarded with, amongst other accolades, an 'As EMPIKu' for the publishing of the biggest best-seller in the entertainment multimedia business.

1998

Started to continually lower its premiere products' prices, which led to the signing of a contract with Infogrames; the first result of this contract was the publishing of the Polish-language version of Anno 1602.. Additionally, a CD Projekt contracted another publisher, Cryo.

1997

Published Diablo in Poland and sets new sales records, and another CD Projekt-published game, Katharsis, won the accolade for the best Polish game at the spring edition of Gambleriada computer expo.

CD Projekt starts to publish fully localized games with professional Polish-language translations of such games as MDK, Ace Ventura and Ecstatica 2.

December 1996

Published Polish computer game Lew Leon developed by the Polish company Leryx which broke all previous sales records.

January 1996

During the Komputer Expo event a new PC game was presented - Nowy Teenagent, the first Polish CD-ROM game developed by CD Projekt.

1996

After a contract was signed with Psygnosis, CD Projekt begins to translate not only game manuals into Polish but packaging as well which leads to all products being sold in Polish-language packaging.

October 1995

A contract was signed with Blizzard Entertainment, thanks to which CD Projekt became an exclusive distributor of Warcraft II and any Blizzard's future products; Warcraft II hit the stores in December and became the first game in the company's history to sell more than 2000 copies in the premiere edition alone.

April 1995

During the ECTS Spring computer expo first contacts with European game producers were established, and Interplay and Blue Byte games were added to the list of products distributed in Poland.

1994

The company was established by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński in Poland.

Soon a contract has been signed with a US-based company American Laser Games to distribute its products in Poland.