PC Gamer

Russia just added Stalker dev GSC to its no-no list of 'undesirable organisations', sobs that Stalker 2 promoted 'Ukrainian narratives' and 'aggressive Russophobic content'

Stalker developer GSC Game World has been added to the Russian government's list of "undesirable organisations," per a press release from the country's Prosecutor General's Office. In other words, ...
TweakTown

GSC explains why Stalker 2's mod SDK takes up 700GB of storage space

TL;DR: Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's mod software, the Zone Kit, launched on Epic Games Store with a massive 700GB file size due to uncompressed, full-resolution assets. This powerful modding tool ...
The Stanford Daily

GSC votes not to certify ASSU election results

The Graduate Student Council (GSC) voted against certifying the 2025 ASSU election results at their Monday meeting. They also voted seven to one to call for a new election. The vote escalates a ...
Polygon

STALKER 2's success led to studio expansion in face of industry challenges, Ukraine war

Some good news from the Ukrainian video game industry: After losing 200 employees from 2021 to 2023, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World is slowly starting to rebuild. According to ...
VideoGamer

Stalker 2 Desolation mod overhauls GSC’s survival game into a “punishing” adventure of “realism” and “nihilism”

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IGN

Following Stalker 2’s Success, Developer GSC Game World Contends With ‘This New Reality’

Stalker 2 is a hit. Officially, it’s sold one million copies across PC and Xbox Series X and S, with many more playing on Game Pass. Reports coming out of Ukraine, where developer GSC Game World was ...
Polygon

STALKER 2 is already profitable and will receive expansions, studio owner says

GSC Game World owner Maxim Krippa recently spoke to Forbes Ukraine about STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl’s profitability and the studio’s plans for future expansion, ITC.ua reports. “We have already ...
VideoGamer

New Stalker 2 mod brings back classic Faction identification missing from GSC’s sequel

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PC Gamer

GSC says it couldn't delay Stalker 2 to fix bugs because 'one more marathon' might have destroyed the devs: 'It has some problems, but it's a game! It's a game with soul'

Stalker 2 is great. Heck, it's my game of the year, and I said as much in my Stalker 2 review. But it also launched with a hell of a lot of bugs. To its credit, developer GSC Game World is cranking ...
Microsoft

When danger sprang from the screen to real life, a Ukrainian game studio battled back

They’d been on edge for months. As winter wore on and Russian troops amassed on Ukraine’s border, they prepared a fleet of well-stocked buses, whose drivers stood by around the clock just outside the ...
vg247

"Difficulty made us stronger" - GSC on how war-time development galvanised the studio, and helped make Stalker 2 a more authentic Ukrainian game

The Russia-Ukraine war rages on, and there is no team more impacted by this reality than Stalker 2 creators GSC World. At the outbreak of the war, the team was split in two, with half evacuating the ...
vg247

Stalker 2 dev GSC did deal with Xbox after finding Phil Spencer's email address on Reddit, like you do

Stalker 2's been through an interesting development cycle to say the least, one that's certainly demanded a lot of developer GSC Game World. As it turns out, one of the minor demands that came of the ...