CD Projekt Sells PC Game Store GOG to Co-Founder - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2026 / 6,511 Views
CD Projekt announced it is selling the PC game store GOG to co-founder Michał Kiciński.
Kiciński is purchasing 100 percent of the shares in GOG for PLN 90.7 million ($25.2 million USD) in the deal, which includes CD Projekt and GOG signing a distribution agreement that will see CD Projekt Red upcoming games release on the platform.
"With our focus now fully on an ambitious development roadmap and expanding our franchises with new high-quality products, we felt this was the right time for this move," said CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski.
"For a long time now, GOG has been operating independently. Now it’s going into very good hands — we are convinced that with the support of Michał Kiciński, one of GOG’s co-founders, its future will be full of great projects and successes.
"We would like to thank the GOG team for years of fruitful cooperation and wish them all the best. And to the GOG community, I say ‘see you around’, because our upcoming releases will naturally be available on GOG as well."
Kiciński added, "I believe that CD Projekt, with its exceptional AAA games, will stand, as always, behind the GOG offering — making GOG the best place on the planet to purchase The Witcher and Cyberpunk games, both existing titles and the new ones we all anticipate so much.
"As a mature gamer, I often play classic games myself and deeply admire the creativity behind many of them. I truly believe that well-crafted classics can deliver as much joy as new releases. When it comes to pure playability, timeless games often prove to be really the safe choice, especially in a market flooded with gazillions of low-quality smaller games.
"Beyond preserving classics, GOG has always sought out new games with a retro spirit. I am personally involved in the development of a few games like that, and they will certainly make their strong appearance on GOG in 2026."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can follow the author on Bluesky.
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As long as GoG stays the course with it's ambitions, all good. Odd how it is back to it's creator but prehaps it shows more that this is what he wanted to do and not what CD Project wants to do.
25 million... that is absurdly low of a price. I guess it's true that GoG is not making any money, which is a shame, really...
GoG, which has nearly as many of the big games, some older games for preservation and DRM free cannot compete with Steam and is "only worth 25mil", god knows what others are pulling in. Who is to blame? GoG for doing exactly what it's saying or consumers who "like steam"? ;-)
My impression is that GOG has had its troubles but it's sustainable at the moment. That is, it's probably profitable but not very profitable.
It is a site for people like me but just like in general most gamers don't care about old games... Some collections of games like Gex seem to be selling in the ten thousands of units.
