GSC Game World will defend it's STALKER franchise

STALKER is on the rise over again information technology seems, every bit Terminal December the studio that created the acclaimed STALKER franchise, GSC Game World, rose from the radioactive Ashes much like a Phoenix. This is after they vanished and closed down the entire company dorsum in 2022.

"We realised that STALKER 2 was dissimilar"

After the abandonment of GSC Game Globe, near of the cadre STALKER team went on to create Vostok Games, which afterwards would get on to brand and publish the online F2P shooter Survarium (which currently is in beta). Public relations director for GSC Game World Valentine Yeltyshev said that he went on his ain way instead of going over to Vostok Games. In fact he stepped away from the Manufacture entirely, so that he could pursue a career on the motocross circuit.

"That was the beginning of Vostok Games," Yeltyshev told Polygon. "Merely I did not trust in the idea of the Survarium game. Only I did not believe, at that time, that something better could exist done. So that'due south why I stepped away from the games industry and never became part of Vostok Games."

Now both Yeltyshev and GSC Game World are back, and Yeltyshev has been working full-time for GSC since Nov, and he's very excited to talk about their next project "When the time is right". Yeltyshev, thinks that the studio is in practiced hands, with Sergei Grigorovich which was the founder of GSC, however maintaining his role as CEO. Nevertheless he has in turn handed over the job of overseeing the mean solar day-to-day management to his blood brother, Evgeniy who is at present the Producer for their next projection.

"Evgeniy has worked with GSC Game World, as a developer and equally a project lead, from the beginning," Yeltyshev said. "Since around 2000. Then he'southward non new to the games industry."

Yeltyshev continues to say that several of the central members from back in the day are already employed likewise every bit many other Ukrainians with experience from other games companies.

Something that's related and relevant to GSC re-opening is a rather Fishy game/project by the name of "STALKER Apocalypse" or as it was formerly know "Areal". Currently there's a rather fishy game being developed by the studio W Games, the game itself first popped up on Kickstarter last year with the proper name 'Areal', and Westward Games claimed that "core squad members from the acclaimed STALKER series are working on Areal".

The Kickstarter entrada got suspended afterwards a while due to controversy such as showing footage from the STALKER games in their offset video, as well every bit the developers several shenanigans such as not answering questions asked, or taking back previous statements about how far they were in development. As well as pointing fingers and trying to discredit media outlets when media started to cover the Kickstarter campaign.

After this, they put up their own "oversupply-funding" via their website, which had a "funds so far" tracker that was coded in HTML, where they technically could manually change the amount of money that they had been "donated", fishy enough for you? No?
Now they are on a service called "Wfunder" a oversupply-funding platform that looks oddly familiar to Kickstarter but has its HQ exterior of the United states. GSC'south Yeltyshev all but dismisses W Games, stating that the team has neither the skills, nor the permission, to brand a STALKER game.

"We started to develop a Flash-based, a web-based STALKER earlier 2022," Yeltshev said. "An isometric, open-world STALKER. And that was these guys [that brand up the core of West Games]. When nosotros realized that this projection would not be as good as we wanted it to exist, we closed the project."

"They are trying to steal coin from people with this crowdfunding website. With Kickstarter commencement ... and at present they are using some weird, other platform. Who is so stupid every bit to give them coin? These guys do not even have an adequate squad to make a game one-half equally large as the original STALKER, permit lone a full game."

I personally hope that we get to see a STALKER 2 which turns out to be what everyone has been peckish for all of these years. I tend to dive back in to the old games now and and so, which has a pretty extensive modding community that has made the games age quite well, mods such as high-fidelity skyboxes and lightning gfx, as well as cracking gameplay mods that make the games quite hard and more of a "survival" game. I'yard looking frontwards to any and all announcements that should exist coming from GSC Soon™.