

GSC Game World was officially dissolved on December 9, 2011. Two years in, Grygorovych had announced the immediate cessation of all development due to "personal reasons", likely as a result of financial difficulty. Numerous layoffs and overall attrition during the development of the game had shrunk GSC's employee count by 75%. This will be the next chapter of the mega-popular game players expect from us." The development of the game was ambitious it was stated that the game would feature an all-new multiplatform engine, made from scratch to fit S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
#S.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 multiplayer series
2 was initially announced in 2010, with a release date set in 2012, by Sergiy Grygorovych, CEO of GSC Game World, stating "After the official sales of the series exceeded 4 million copies worldwide, we had no doubts left to start creating a new big game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. However, the development team later stated on their official Discord server that the development process continues and is currently set for a 2023 release. It was scheduled to release on December 8, 2022, but due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, development for the game was put on hold.

The game resurfaced years later in 2018, with the development restarted and powered by Unreal Engine 5. Initially announced following the release of Call of Pripyat, it was planned release in 2012, before it was ultimately cancelled on the year of its intended release. game in 13 years since the release of Call of Pripyat in 2009. video game series, the first game in the series released on consoles, as well as the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Set to release for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox Series X/S, it will be the fourth game released in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is an upcoming first-person shooter survival horror video game developed and published by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World.
