GOG and CD Projekt Founder Acquires 100% Ownership of GOG

Michal Kicinski, who co-founded both CD Projekt and the DRM-free digital games store GOG back in 2008, has acquired 100% ownership of GOG from CD Projekt, bringing the platform full circle to one of its original creators.

GOG was already operating as part of CD Projekt through its Sp.z.o.o. subsidiary, but Kicinski now takes complete control of the company. The platform will continue operating independently and maintain its commitment to DRM-free gaming. "The mission stays the same: Make Games Live Forever," GOG said in its announcement.

CD Projekt's joint CEO Michal Nowakowski said the parent company's focus on its development roadmap and franchise expansion made this the right time for the move. GOG has signed a distribution agreement ensuring all upcoming CD Projekt Red titles will release on the platform. Kicinski, describing himself as a "mature gamer" who plays classics, said he's personally involved in developing several retro-spirited games slated for GOG in 2026.

Congratulations Michal

[Psykechan]

Congratulations Michal, GOG is back under your control. Can we now have access to the recent releases and news posts instead of them being relegated to the bottom of the store page and only having the last 9 of them?

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[r1348]

Also maybe release the GOG Galaxy linux client we were promised like 15 years ago: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/g... [gog.com]

Since then, I bought ~1000 titles on Steam, and only because they officially support linux.

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[DrMrLordX]

Eww Galaxy kinda sucks. I just use downloaders directly from the GOD site.

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[DrMrLordX]

GOG not GOD duh.

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[Koen Lefever]

Also maybe release the GOG Galaxy linux client

Both Heroic [heroicgameslauncher.com] (source code [github.com]) and Lutris [lutris.net] (source code [github.com]) do on Linux what GOG Galaxy does, and a lot more.

Re: Congratulations Michal

[PoopMelon]

If you're into financially supporting this scum you can always use heroic launcher

Gog is a cultural heritage cancer

[PoopMelon]

"The mission stays the same: Make Games Live Forever," - no, your mission is to monetize abandonware while abusing hard work of open source teams such as dosbox. From day 1 all they did was to abuse copyright by purchasing rights of freely available abandonware and packing it in a bundle with dosbox - a team which has not seen a single penny for their hard work. Abandonware scene was rich and blooming before these thieves appeared on the scene and all they so is only actually make games less accessible to e

Re: Gog is a cultural heritage cancer

[PoopMelon]

Copyright is flawed, abandonware is just a gray zone created out of necessity. Gog is only cannibalizing the copyright outdated laws introduced by MAFIAA/disney. And you could not be further from the truth that their games were not abandonware. In fact, many of active abandonware websites took massive amount of content down after gog purchases rights and repacked it with dosbox, % of sales of which are not going to actual ceators of the game. Just licence/copyright moguls. Sure, they have pivoted to be a p