CD Projekt acquires Metropolis

CD Projekt has signed an investment agreement to take a majority ownership of fellow Polish games developer Metropolis Software.

With the inclusion of the Metropolis team and splitting the existing CD Projekt studio into two, the company is now working on three projects which it believes will result in triple A-quality games.

CD Projekt recently announced that its debut title, The Witcher, has sold over 600,000 units worldwide in three months, while Metropolis - previously responsible for Gorky 17 and Infernal - is now working on a mystery first-person shooter called They.

Michal Kicinski, co-CEO of CD Projekt, believes the success of The Witcher can help be a springboard for greater achievements in the future.

"I'm very happy that we managed to combine the strengths of two key development teams in Poland. Metropolis and CD Projekt have many values in common: we believe that the success of our products depends on innovative character and atmosphere, as well as uncompromising care of the highest quality," he said in a statement.

"In the games business, this latter element is particularly difficult to achieve by independent teams. It is often the case that finance - and not the developers' vision - that determines the final shape and quality of the project.

"CD Projekt was an atypical company from the very beginning — the realisation of our plans is preferred to simply earning a profit. Now, thanks to our financial reserves from the success of The Witcher and CD Projekt's publishing business, Metropolis will have much more creative freedom."