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Console release and weeklong Steam deal for all S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fansMar 6, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsWinter is a tough season, especially in the Zone. And even though some winter days felt like late March, stalkers are jubilant to welcome the advent of spring. The season when everything is new, the world refreshes, and the Zone is no exception. Curious mutants lurking through the grass searching for adventures, artefacts and anomalies are easier to spot. Seasoned veterans are ready to find what was left under the snow, some romantic stalkers are happy to see first flowers and traders are ready to welcome newcomers. Spring is a big deal to them, tons of rookies are looking to venture for a better life, and they need equipment, and food, and drinks, and, you can see where it goes. Most rookies go by the established route. Steam offers discounts up to 75% for classic S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. But some future stalkers can venture into the unknown, that is console Zone, and try S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Legends of the Zone trilogy. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. world joins consoles, and you can try to survive and find your way with a gamepad. This route is branched into two separate entries, Xbox Store and PlayStation Store. It is up to you to choose one you prefer. Huge new Stalker game, built by fans, is available to play right nowDec 22, 2023 - PCGamesNWell, this is a very nice way to end the year. As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Stalker 2, and the return of GSC's iconic apocalypse shooter, what is basically a completely new Stalker game has just dropped out of nowhere, courtesy of a huge overhaul mod for the 2010 classic Call of Pripyat. With new missions, environments, music, a retooled UI, and improved graphics, this is the perfect way to keep busy before Stalker 2 gets here, and you can play it right this second. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: ModDB and IndieDB reveal their top ten mods and indie games of the year Liberated: GSC Game World ditches GameSpy in all STALKER games Gamescom is coming, as well as the demo of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2Aug 2, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsDeadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists, bandits, free stalkers, players and partners are heartily invited to join us and play the demo of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at gamescom 2023 on 23-27 August. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3949753/f34f3c766bcb8edc95bdbe14e99ff588f94a57ff.jpg See you and Good Hunting Stalkers!Fix for the 12th Generation Intel® Core™ CPUsJun 6, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsMinor update in the renderers initialization sequence to address issue with freezing the game on computers powered by 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors running on Windows 11. Patch affects only R2 render (Full Dynamic Lighting @ DirectX® 9). The reason behind this issue is the fact Intel dropped hardware support for DX9 in their integrated graphics cards found in 12th Gen (and upper) CPUs and discrete Arc GPUs. To support older games, emulation layer called D3D9On12 is used to translate DX9 API calls to DX12 at runtime. The game has somewhat complicated initialization which locked the emulator. To address the issue, initialization was simplified a bit to be more emulator friendly. Update, June 15 Thanks to the valuable patch feedback collected in this thread, we’re releasing a really tiny fix:
R2 render (Dynamic Lighting) should now work properly on the systems with outdated DirectX End-User Runtime Multiplayer servers with previous version should not reject clients with the new version On numerous requests, we created public “beta” branch called “pre-win11-patch” which points to the game version without this patch Information for modders: the only file changed in the patch is “xrRender_R2.dll” S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 🤝 Dying Light bundle is here NOWMay 10, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsAdrenaline roof jumps or painstaking, step by bolt, advance to the goal? Bloodthirsty zombies or predatory mutants? The nights that turn hunters to prey, or the Emission that gives you the only chance to survive by hiding as deep as possible? Together with our partners at Techland, we got you an option to add both the universes to your collection at once! The “Dying Light Definitive Edition + S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy” bundle is already available here in Steam. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3949753/c9a0ff3143adcaed78199fa9e957bd209ee23b99.jpg S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will get a board game adaptation!Feb 28, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsBright Emission illuminates the sky. Seems the Noosphere is proceeding that stalkers from Awaken Realms have discovered — something that will forever go down in the history of the Zone. Rumors say that these explorers are true masters of their craft and are ready to share some fruits of the expedition! Clues we've got: you'll need a squad of stalker mates, a safe shelter with one evening supply stock, and… a table. Perhaps a campfire for complete immersion. We guess the best chance to clear it out is on their stream that’s start right now: GSC Game World Birthday SaleDec 5, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsThe last leaves drop down to the soil. Winter takes its toll, and the Zone gets covered with new, pure snow. The snow that will change its look but not the essence: strong, dangerous and a bit lonely. She keeps the memories about those times when the first stalkers did their first timid steps through the fences, ruins and anomalous puddles. Today those stalkers are hardy wolves, perhaps. And they are waiting for her next call. The call that they are promised to answer back by returning to Her, their home. If you desire to renew your ticket to Pripyat, follow the first stalkers steps and find your own path… Then GSC Game World birthday sale will give you an opportunity! From the 5th to the 12th of December, buy our games with a great discount and venture into this winter trip! Good winter hunting, stalker.Together we raised 800 000$!Apr 15, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsThe charity sale of GSC Game World games is over. The great reason to be proud of our community. Thank you all! Those who hear Ukrainians. Those who open their doors to Ukrainians. Those who do not stand aside: tweet, show their support, correspond, offer help, take to the streets all around the world, donate money, participate in charity sales, join the ranks of volunteers, feed those who are starving, dismantle blockages, protect, treat, transport, rescue and never back down. You are incredible! Together with you, we’ve managed to raise more than $800,000. After taxes and store commissions, all funds will be donated to the «Come Back Alive» Charitable Foundation. Thanks to this sale, there are more Cossacks in the Sich, stalkers in the Zone, and the Ukrainian people made new friends ready to come to his aid. We will remember that. Always.GSC Game World Charity Sale is still ON!Apr 8, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsFriends! We are incredibly grateful for every purchase during the GSC for Ukraine Charity Sale. Now we see your powerful support — on some platforms we even had to generate new game keys for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series. By purchasing any games already released by GSC Game World, you are helping the defenders of Ukraine to protect our Independence. There are 3 days left until the end of the Charity Sale. You are incredible. Do not stop!GSC Game World Charity SaleApr 4, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsIt has been more than a month since the war started in Ukraine. A painful and horribly long time. But in these exact moments, a genuine unity appears. These days, «Duty» with «Freedom» are standing shoulder to shoulder in a single row with militaries, protecting their motherland. Free volunteers are fetching incredibly rare stuff from the well-developed stashes network. Cossacks from Territorial Defence are consolidating to transform any little town into an impregnable Sich. And mages of the Internet are casting Empire-Annihilation spells to ensure our efficient informational support and helping the world to find the truth about the events. And to help these and many other Ukrainians, GSC Game World is starting a charity sale of its games. All the money gained will be transferred to the «Come back alive» fund, which saves Ukrainians' lives each day since 2014. The sale is active from the 4th to the 11th of April on Steam (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy only), GOG, HumbleBundle, Fanatical, Greenmangaming, GamersGate. It includes all the released games of our studio with up to 80% discount. While buying during this sale, you are helping to save lives! And don't forget that you can directly donate to the «Come back alive» fund. More information on the link: comebackalive.in.ua/donate«S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat» — to the nominees for Labor of Love!Nov 24, 2021 - Community Announcements12 years have passed since the release of the latest part of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy, but the GSC Game World team is still as passionate about this universe as before. Some of us even grew up playing the previous games of the series, and now they are working on its continuation. And in many ways, this became possible thanks to our incredible community! The strongest morale booster for our team that can even exist is the nomination of «S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat» for the Steam Labor Of Love Award. We hope that today stalkers will hear the Call and respond to it with their voice in support.S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 — First trailer and informationJul 27, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is a brand-new entry in the legendary series, enjoyed by millions of players worldwide. The explosive combination of first-person shooter, immersive sim and horror is back. It’s the ultimate S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience of unprecedented scale, advanced graphics, freedom of choices and the thickest atmosphere of a deadly adventure. Welcome to The Zone — an area of exclusion around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Full of radiation, mutants and anomalies, it keeps drawing adventurers from beyond the perimeter. Bounty hunters dwell deep into the Zone, driven by its treasures and mysteries. These people are known as stalkers. Are you ready to become one of them? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3949753/aa98b5449edb03c076acec1432b49ee5f955141f.jpg Immerse in the Zone For the first time in the history of the franchise, the Zone will be yours to explore as a seamless post-apocalyptic open-world — one of the biggest ones to date. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3949753/303e6c42e4a4cbf88dc1b64b7e25f36e058372f3.jpg It’s Your Story Craft your own story, as the decisions you make will affect more than just your fate, but also the world itself. A-Life 2.0 A living world simulating system controls the state of the Zone, making it truly alive. All sorts of things will happen every moment — even if you are not involved in them directly. Cutting-Edge Tech Ray-tracing, photogrammetry, full-body and face motion capture: we use industry-recognized technologies to offer you the best S.T.A.L.K.E.R experience possible. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3949753/e5303fcaa8e41bece74de8bfbc53adcc954ea9b1.jpg Find the courage to answer the call. Good hunting, stalker. How brutalism has shaped gamesOct 23, 2018 - EurogamerIt's easy to understand why brutalism has been such a potent source of architectural inspiration for games. The raw forms - solid, legible and with clear lineation - are the perfect material for level designers to craft their worlds with. Simultaneously, these same structures are able to ignite imaginations and gesture outwards, their dramatic shapes and monumental dimensions shocking and attention-seizing. Brutalism is a branch of architecture that spans roughly 30 years (1950s-1970s). It was borne out of the devastation of two world wars, when there was a need to rebuild. In this aftermath brutalism became a vital global phenomenon. If you live in a city, you've no doubt passed by a hulking example. The term derives from a French invention: b ton brut, meaning raw concrete. This is the structure's most prominent feature - sheer concrete surface, often left rough, exposed or unfinished. Significant in the emergence of brutalism was the architect Le Corbusier and his Unit d'Habitation. Built from reinforced concrete, the housing unit was an attempt to create what Le Corbusier called "a machine for living" - a place that met our every need. It was a thoroughly modern, progressive and even utopian conception of architecture. Regardless of the visual force of brutalism, it's impossible to divorce it from this socio-historical background. Read more… The Californian sent to save Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl from development hellJul 31, 2018 - EurogamerIn a restaurant somewhere in sunny Los Angeles County, 13 years ago, two old friends were having lunch. Wine and conversation were flowing. They remembered how they'd met at LucasArts in the 90s. They weren't there to talk business but they did because video games were their bread and butter. One of the men, Jack Sorensen, was reeling-off job opportunities he knew of - he being executive vice president of worldwide studios at games publisher THQ. "THQ Australia?" he enquired. But the other man, Dean Sharpe, didn't seem interested. He had closed his own studio Big Ape Productions a couple of years earlier, dropped off the radar and taken a break, and now he was ready for something new. But Sharpe wanted a challenge. Sorensen dangled the bait. "It was somewhere during the second bottle of wine he mentioned he had this crazy thing in Ukraine," Dean Sharpe tells me over Skype now (he never did get fully back on the radar and he's a hard man to find). "Wow Ukraine," he thought to himself, "that sounds interesting." Sorensen outlined his problem: THQ had a team making a fascinating game in Ukraine called Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. The game was dark and massive, set around the twisted disaster zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was part shooter, part role-playing game, part eerie open-world sandbox adventure. But Stalker was overdue, long overdue, and Sorensen needed someone on the ground out there to finish it - someone in Ukraine to be THQ personified, day in day out, doing whatever it took to get the game done. Read more… Apparently STALKER 2 is happening, but don't get too excitedMay 16, 2018 - EurogamerApparently STALKER 2 is happening and will be released in 2021. That's according to Sergiy Grygorovych, owner of STALKER developer GSC, who shared on Facebook: "Today 15.05.2018 I officially declare: GSC GAME WORLD DEVELOPS S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2." His post linked to a STALKER 2 website displaying the project's logo and the number "2021", which is presumably the planned release date. Read more… Former STALKER team announces Chernobyl-set battle royale gameFeb 7, 2018 - EurogamerHow about a STALKER battle royale game? There's one in development. It's called Fear the Wolves and it's made by Vostok Games, the studio formed from the ashes of STALKER developer GSC. Fear the Wolves takes place, like STALKER, in the creepy radiation-blasted wasteland of Chernobyl. It's a 100-player deathmatch where you can play lone wolf or in squads - but players won't be the only enemy. Deadly anomalies constantly threaten your health, mitigated somewhat by protective gear found while exploring. Of more pressing danger, however, will be the mutated forms lurking in the shadows... Fear the Wolves will be released at some point this year on PC and consoles - presumably much later this year. There'll be an early access phase on PC beforehand. Read more… The best FPS games of all timeJan 8, 2016 - PC GamerStalker series saved from GameSpy oblivion via new patchJun 1, 2014 - PC Gamer Like a lot of you (I'm guessing), I've never even tried the multiplayer modes in the terrific Stalker series, but it's good to know that I'll be able to if I ever get the itch. GSC Gameworld's post-apocalyptic horror shooter games are the latest to be rescued from GameSpy oblivion, via automagical Steam patches, or if you don't own the games on Steam, one equally magical manual multi-patch for all three games. This will switch the multiplayer servers over from GameSpy to GSC Gameworld's own, slightly less risky ones (it's not entirely clear who's running them, as GSC was dissolved in 2011). If you've accrued an impressive set of statistics in Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky or Call of Pripyat, those won't be saved, but if the post-apocalypse (and more destructively, the decline of GameSpy) has taught us anything, it's that nothing lasts forever, not even your kill-death ratio. Previously on GameSpyWatch: Dawn of War, Battlefield 2/1942, Halo: Combat Evolved, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and various Civs and Borderlandses' multiplayer modes have all been saved. Crysis and Crysis 2's multiplayer shenanigans have not. Have a read of Ian Birnbaum's recent GameSpy article to see the full scale of the problem, and to meet the players fighting to keep the games alive. The GameSpy servers were shut down yesterday. Ta, PCGamesN.A console gamer asked me what three PC games he should play here’s what I told himMay 5, 2014 - PC Gamer One of the pleasant parts of writing about games is just meeting the people who share your weird career. I went to a media dinner at PAX East this year and had the chance to get to know some editors that I hadn t met before. The guy sitting next to me happened to be primarily a console gamer, but that actually ended up being a neat opportunity for us to have a kind of cultural exchange. I got to learn about the state of Kinect games and Halo, and he got to hear me explain the appeal of Arma, a game that inspired me to memorize the NATO alphabet. I took his business card and emailed him a few of my favorite Arma videos by Dslyecxi and CHKilroy later that night, hoping they would give him a sense of the beautiful coordination that s possible in a systems-driven, moddable, massive-scale multiplayer game. A few days after PAX East, I got a wonderful reply our conversation and the videos I d passed along had inspired him to build his first PC in 15 years. I love being a PC evangelist. With my colleague s note, though, came a tough question: What are the three PC-only games I missed in the last 15 years that I absolutely have to play? Daunting, right? These are the games I recommended, pasted verbatim from our email exchange: // From: Evan Lahti Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2014 4:01 PM To: James Videogames Subject: Re: ARMA WONDERS Hey James, Late follow-up here, but whoa, how exciting! Let me know if you need a hand with the build. Happy to pitch in or mail along one of our PC building issues. Glad to hear you re willing to dig through some of PC gaming s wondrous past. Give GOG.com a gander for most of that. Fallout 2 is a must; building a grounded, variously amoral character in that setting holds up well. Deus Ex demands a bit of modding to make comfortably modern, though there are some great guides out there. TLJ is a wonder. But man, this is a dream question. It s the gaming editor s equivalent of being visited by an alien, then asked to provide the three products of humanity they re most proud of. The approach I ve taken here is to suggest three games that are deeply representative of what there is to love about PC gaming as it exists right now. I don t know if I can say that these are absolutely, individually the best games ever made and I remember you mentioning not being particularly interested in MOBAs, so I ll omit those but as a group I think that these games form some good kindling for what ll hopefully be a passionate relationship with PC gaming going forward. Play these games: Civilization V Civ is two things to me: the best board game in the world (that you can happen to play alone) and history, reverently presented in an elegant, entertaining form. The care with which Firaxis animates its tiny, tiled Earth and digital figurines does so much to make its subject matter vibrant. Beyond that, it s a wonderfully arranged set of rules that sets up meaningful decisions around how you develop your civilization. You have to zero-in on short-term an...Misery 2.1 released, is a massive overhaul of the STALKER modMar 19, 2014 - PC Gamer Around seven months after the release of Misery 2.0, its team are back with a new update. Misery 2.1 might not be a big change numerically, but the STALKER: Call of Pripyat mod has received some major revisions to AI, weapons, gear, economy, interface and difficulty. It's such a dramatic overhaul that the creators now consider it to be "a completed modding project", and, as such, are moving on to something else. That something else is a Kickstarter project for The Seed: a post-apocalyptic interactive novel set in Eastern Europe. They're looking for 15,000 to finish their 2D psychological story. For Misery, the team have produced a typically gloomy trailer. You can see the full mod patch list over at the Misery site, and download version 2.1 at ModDB. And, if you want to know more about The Seed, head over to the team's Kickstarter page.

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