Also, military squads carry out operations in the Zone, like elimination missions or strategic points protection. To protect the Zone from intruders, the Cordon was built by the Ukraine Military Forces. Conversely, the Freedom fraction members believe the Zone should be freely accessible to all people. The Duty faction believes the Zone is a threat to humanity that must be destroyed. Many of them are working on their own, though there are also several factions present. People, known as “stalkers”, are exploring the Zone to search for artifacts for personal enrichment. Īnomalies are creating the Artifacts, which are items with unique and extraordinary properties such as anti-gravity or radioactivity absorption. The Zone is rich in anomalies - inexplicable phenomena that don't obey the laws of physics and common sense (such as pillars of fire, lightning scatter, whirlwinds that tear everything that falls into them, etc). It caused physical and meteorological phenomena all over the Zone and mutation of local plant and animal life. Due to the activity of several classified laboratories that had been conducting experiments with psionic abilities, a catastrophe occurred in 2006. The franchise's actions take place in the Zone, an alternate Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The autotranslation is messy, so if anyone can explain the sixth paragraph - which tries to speculate on what was going on - accurately, that would be great.Attendees of fan festival Stalker-Fest 2009 The closure was apparently announced to the workforce earlier today. ORIGINAL: According to this report from Ukrainian news site UkraNews, GSC has been shut down by owner Sergei Grigorovich. GSC closed."įIRST UPDATE: GSC deny the report on their twitter here. Dmitri Bourkovski (apparently not a GSC employee) has just tweeted "Not PR. Still trying to get confirmation on this, but it's looking like GSC is down. SECOND UPDATE: The denial tweet has now been deleted. THIRD UPDATE: GSC have got back to me with "Sorry, no comments at this point." That does not sound promising.
The rest of the story, as it happened, below.įOURTH UPDATE: GSC's social media manager announces he is looking for a new job here. The team is almost completely dissolved, the state has only a few people." Galenkin blames the cost of developing a PC only shooter for a European audience, and a failed console publishing deal, for the collapse of the developer.
He states: "GSC is closed, a fact confirmed by all.
LATEST UPDATE: GSC's twitter this morning announced there will be an official statement on Monday.ġc Ukraine's Sergey Galenkin has blogged about the closure of GSC.
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