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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was initially announced in 2010, with a release date set in 2012, by Sergiy Grygorovych, CEO of GSC Game World, stating "After the official sales of the series exceeded 4 million copies worldwide, we had no doubts left to start creating a new big game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe. This will be the next chapter of the mega ...
On 23 August 2023, the release date was pushed further to Q1 2024. On 16 January 2024, the release date was pushed back again, being announced as 5 September 2024, but was then delayed to 20 November 2024. [20] On October 31, 2024, the game collection S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy was released for the Nintendo Switch.
GSC Game World hopes to release Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl next year.
GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv with a second temporary office in Prague. [a] Founded in Kyiv in 1995 by Sergiy Grygorovych, it is best known for the Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of games.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. takes place in an area called the Zone. The Zone is based on the real-life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and is also inspired by fictional works: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's science fiction novella Roadside Picnic (1972) which was loosely adapted into Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker (1979), as well as the film's subsequent novelization by the Strugatsky brothers.
The engine's revamp has allowed for improved and increased performance on most systems. Version 1.5.03 of the game supports MSAA for DirectX 10, while version 1.5.06 added support for DirectX 10.1. In August 2014 the game's X-Ray Engine 1.5.10 source code became available on GitHub under a non-open-source license. [3] [4]
Call of Pripyat utilizes the X-Ray Engine 1.6, allowing advanced modern graphical features through the use of DirectX 11 to be fully integrated; one outstanding feature being the inclusion of real-time GPU tessellation. Regions and maps feature photo realistic scenes of the region it is made to represent.
VG Entertainment Ltd (formerly Vostok Games) is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv.The company was founded in March 2012 by former employees of GSC Game World, including Oleg Yavorsky, after GSC had been shut down.