Focus: From Communist-era roots to cash cows: Poland's gaming industry takes on the world

The Cd Projekt headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, Jan 21. — Reuters

WARSAW/PRAGUE: The drab exteriors of a pair of 1970s buildings in an industrial Warsaw neighbourhood belie the hive of high-tech activity inside where developers, screenplay writers and others at leading video game maker CD Projekt hustle to create the next global hit.

Poland – Eastern Europe's biggest economy – has quietly developed into a leading video game exporter thanks to low labour costs, a young educated workforce and a thriving gaming tradition rooted in the Communist era.