STALKER 2 Developer Leaving Ukraine Amid Russian Invasion

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STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is just one of many video game productions that are being affected by the Russian aggression on the Ukrainian people, but what puts the developer, GSC Game World, in a particularly troublesome spot is that it is based primarily in Ukraine. This is why the development of the game had been put on hold for some time now.

This may yet change in the coming weeks, however, as sources claim that GSC Game World is now moving its headquarters to a neighboring country to try and continue working on STALKER 2. Reports on this information come from Czech gaming website Vortex, as well as a prominent Czech gaming journalist, Pavel Dobrovsky.

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Even though development of STALKER 2 was put on hold until «after Ukrainian victory,» sources now claim that GSC Game World is moving its headquarters over to the Czech Republic. Reports of this taking place originally came about via Vortex, a prominent Czech gaming website, with Dobrovsky mirroring these sentiments on Twitter soon thereafter. It seems that GSC is transitioning its whole operation over to Prague or somewhere close by, and if everything goes well and all the logistics are sorted out soon, the company may resume its business in relatively short order.

Recently, GSC Game World changed the STALKER 2 subtitle to reflect the Ukrainian spelling of its location, which is why the game is now known as "Heart of Chornobyl," rather than «Chernobyl,» which is the Russian spelling. Given the subject of the game, it's clear that the current geopolitical situation has cornered GSC between a rock and a hard place.

GSC issued a statement about the Russian invasion in the earliest stages of the