STALKER received an heir

In December last year, the news that the Ukrainian company GSC Game World, widely known for its series of post-apocalyptic shooters STALKER, closes for reasons that are not quite clear, raised a number of questions about the fate of its most successful project. Periodically, there were news that the company is actually on the verge of closure, negotiations are underway with publishers, then suddenly it turned out that everything is fine and the project will continue in cooperation with another publisher, but it is not clear how and when.

In this matter, clarity.

Former employees of GSC Game World created in March 2012 in Kiev, the company Vostok Games. The project website states the following:
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Ten years earlier, within the walls of GSC Game World, we began to develop the well-known game series STALKER and continued to work on it until the moment when in December 2011 the studio was unexpectedly closed and the project STALKER 2 was frozen. We did not reach an agreement with the copyright holder regarding the conditions for using the Stalker brand, so we decided to move on as an independent studio with a new project. This day was the starting point of Vostok Games.

And, actually, today, the company announced its new project Survarium, which the developers themselves describe as follows and is called the “evolution of the STALKER idea:

The game "Survarium" is a free2play MMO-shooter from the first person, the action of which takes place in the near future. The events of the game are built around a large-scale environmental catastrophe on Earth, the reasons for which are authentically unknown.
Impassable forest from all sides is attacking cities, crazed animals and birds attacking production complexes, military installations, warehouses and power plants. Cities are cut off from each other, there is no water, electricity, gas, communication does not work. States fall apart, anarchy sweeps the world. Now the power decides who to survive. Meanwhile, new species of plants and animals purposefully destroy human civilization. Strange plants and mushrooms germinate through concrete and iron. Scientists around the world unsuccessfully trying to cope with the anomaly, sprawling across the Earth with terrifying speed.

Survarium is scheduled for release at the end of 2013 on a PC - a separate site has already been launched for the project, which is not yet full of content. One can only hope that the notorious story of the long-standing of the most famous part of STALKER, The Shadows of Chernobyl, will not happen again.

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