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Warsaw Business Journal presents CD Projekt with its "International Success Story" award! |
International Info, Posted: Monday, February 18, 2008, 0:00 AM
The Warsaw Business Journal weekly presented CD Projekt RED with a prestigious award in the International Success Story 2007 category in recognition of the company''s introducing Poland to the international games industry. The reason for this is of course the success of the computer game "The Witcher".
The "International Success Story 2007" is one of the four prestigious awards presented by WBJ this year; these accolades go to unique Polish companies that excel in their activities regardless of the field they operate in, which makes it all the more valuable for the computer games'' trade. Michał Kiciński, CD Projekt Chairman of the Board, received the award on behalf of the company.
"We''re honoured by this award and we consider this to be an enormous grace" - said Michał Kiciński. "The award is all the more important due to the fact that it originates outside of the computer games trade, which means that our success is large enough to be noticed outside the business. This shows the scale of the Witcher''s Polish and international success, with its sales of over six hundred thousand copies in just three months following the games'' premiere. This award makes us believe even stronger that we''re heading in the right direction. What''s more, the Witcher is just our debut and we believe that we can achieve even more, as we''ve only begun spreading our wings."
Warsaw Business Journal is an English-language weekly dealing with Poland''s business, political and economic matters. Warsaw Business Journal was established in 1994 and has been from that time the primary source of information for foreigners interested in the specifics of the Polish market and business.
"The Witcher" is a computer role-playing game based on Andrzej Sapkowski''s works developed by the local CD Projekt RED studio that achieves excellent sales both home and abroad. The gamer plays the part of a professional monster-slayer Geralt who is dragged against his will into political manoeuvrings. Characteristic for the game are its intriguing storyline intended mainly for adult gamers and the feel of Andrzej Sapkowski''s books reproduced on computer screens.
The Witcher:
The Witcher is a role-playing game developed by the Polish CD Projekt RED team and utilising a new version of BioWare''s Aurora 2007 engine. The game is set in the world known from Andrzej Sapkowski''s widely published books. The first volume of witcher short stories has been available in English for a couple of months. The game presents the adventures of Geralt, a professional monster-slayer that gets involved in political manoeuvrings. "The Witcher" is also the first role-playing game conceived and intended for adult gamers.
CD Projekt:
CD Projekt was established in 1994 and is the biggest distributor of computer games in Central Europe. The gamers value the company for its high professionalism and numerous pioneering projects that changed the local markets. CD Projekt became the first company in the region to begin localising computer games, including the biggest RPG projects such as Baldur''s Gate, Planescape: Torment or the Gothic series. Polish-language versions of these titles are even now considered by many gamers to be textbook examples of perfect localisation processes. CD Projekt currently comprises of a group of companies active in the electronic entertainment trade, employing over 300 people. CD Projekt group''s mission is its work with the realisation of business goals per se being less important than realising our passions and dreams of providing products that are to the maximum possible extent adapted to the user''s needs in every respect.