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GOG has announced the addition of GSC Game World titles to its digital library, starting with an entry from the studio’s tactical RTS series Cossacks. The anthology bundles together Cossacks: European Wars with the expansion packs Cossacks: Art of War and Cossacks: Back to War. The Cossacks Analogy lands today for $5.99 and comes complete with wallpapers, soundtracks, the manual, a quick reference card and is DRM-free. Further titles from GSC Game World are to be added in the future.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 developer GCS Game World has issued its promised statement on the studio’s future. Short version: it’s not good news.

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In an interview with Ukrainian site KP, GSC Game World studio head Sergey Grigorovich explained how the DRM would work in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 when it is released.

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A teaser site and a pilot for a television series of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and funded by the game’s developer GSC Game World has surfaced online.

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Steam has a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle on sale this weekend for 75 percent off until August 23.

This means it will only run you $9.99.

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GSC Game World has announced it’s developing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.

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Koch just confirmed a February 5 street date for S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat in the UK, Nordic and Italy.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat will launch on February 2 in the US, Viva Media and bitcomposer said today.

Viva Media boss Carlo Voelker said: “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat is the third in the highly successful Shooter/RPG franchise developed by GSC Game World. The game opens up a dark world where players can immerse themselves into a gripping storyline full of action and suspense.”

PR after the break. Go grade A mental.

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bitComposer’s site‘s confirmed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat for a Q1 2010 release, quashing hopes of a 2009 ship.

Some system specs for you there, in addition:

Minimum
OS: Windows® XP
CPU:
2.0GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon™ 2200+
RAM:
512 MB
GPU:
128 MB RAM DirectX® 8.0 compatible Card e.g. GeForce 5700 or Radeon 9600

Recommended
OS: Windows® Vista®
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 or AMD 64 X2 5600+
RAM:
2 GB
GPU:
512 MB RAM DirectX® 9 or 10 compatible Card e.g. GeForce 9800GTX or Radeon HD4850

Thanks, Blue.

A new video for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat shows off the irradiated Zone near the Chernobyl.

Looks like there are horrific anomalies in the landscape, with dangerous things lurking and lying in wait for you.

Spooky. Aim your weapon and don’t miss, because it apparently takes loads of bullets to kill whatever those things are.

It’s out this fall.

Watch below the page jump, courtesy of BigDownload.

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bitComposer have been confirmed as the publisher to S.TA.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat worldwide.

It comes as developer GSC Game World told VG247 yesterday that an announcement concerning a publisher for the title would be coming very soon.

Press release is after the break. It’s due for a fall release on the PC.

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Remember S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat? It still hasn’t come out. In case you’d forgotten about it, have some new images.

This doesn’t actually have a publisher yet. It’s releasing this “autumn,” apparently.

GSC’s Oleg Yavorsky has told RPS that STALKER followers can expect a full range of new environments in the next in the shooter series.

“We will present a complete set of new locations in Call of Pripyat,” said the developer.

“This includes the Pripyat river basin and its rusty fleet standing still for over 20 years now, the Kopachi village completely buried after the accident, Jupiter factory located on the outskirts of Pripyat, the railway station Yanov, and, to crown it all – an entire district of Pripyat, modeled in its real scope.

“Many players have repeatedly asked us to implement Pripyat in the game, so we decided to satisfy their wish.”

Yavorsky said the title will top both the vaunted original and battered sequel, Clear Sky.

“I think Call of Pripyat will be the most photo-realistic, and hence, atmospheric S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game of all three,” he said.

It’s out this autumn. There’s a full interview through there.

The official website for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat has gone up revealing system requirements and a few new screenshots.

In order to play GSC’s S.T.A.L.K.E.R. add-on you will need:

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz / AMD XP 2200+
• 512 MB RAM
• 128 MB DirectX 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 5700 / ATI Radeon 9600

Recommended System Requirements

• Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 / AMD 64 X2 5600+
• 2 GB RAM
• 512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD 4850

Screenshots are through here.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is out in later this year. Thanks, PCGamesHardware.

GSC’s put out the first two screens on the now-confirmed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, as you can see after the break.

The title promises a new story and a new version of the developer’s A-Life system over Shadown of Chernobyl and Clear Sky.

It’s out this autumn.

Update: There’s more in shots from a Russian mag here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Thanks, _S_E_R_G_.

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According this this Shacknews story, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky has been confirmed for a September 15 launch in the US.

The game was delayed at the end of August thanks to a lack of CD keys in the initial shipment.

More through the link.

That’s it, really. PC Gamer’s given S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky a miserable 6.8/10, as you can see on CVG.

Probably won’t play it, if we’re being honest. Get more sad-smiley-face scores here.

Eurogamer’s given S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky 7/10, which added to IGN’s 70 percent and PC Zone’s cover score of 88 percent should give you a good idea that this probably isn’t quite what it was supposed to be. Snip:

There’s been a lot of negativity, hasn’t there? There’s still a lot of what made Stalker so appealing here. It shows how having these sorts of character-improvement and living world elements can improve a shooter’s appeal. Why do you think we’re so angry when they take away all our stuff? Between the improved weapon modification and the more living Zone, a certain strand of Stalker fan will find much here to applaud, and those who’ve never actually played the earlier game at all will still be enchanted by the unique atmosphere of the place… but would be recommended going there first, perhaps with the Oblivion Lost mod attached.

Full thing through the link.

Uh oh. Despite an 88 percent cover review from PCZone, IGN UK’s posted a 7/10 for the GSC sequel, saying it has a “reactorful of misfires” and “so much decaying flesh attached to it that cutting through to the admittedly very healthy bone below may prove too tall an order.”

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There’s also a stack of bugs and balance issues, perhaps unsurprisingly given Stalker 1′s messy gestation, and we suffered an AI failure at one point that broke the faction war system. As well as that, that aforementioned difficulty feels like an over-enthusiastic mod – enemies often turn up in ridiculous numbers and are almost always aware of exactly where you are – plus there’s those damnable grenades. A hardcore reward for the hardcore player, perhaps, but for the more casual Zone-wanderer or total newbie it gets too much like hard work, crushing the desire to press onwards.

Full thing through the link. Not the prettiest thing in the world.

The first S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky review’s in, and it’s an 88 percent from UK mag PC Zone.

The review lauds the shooter for being the “game Shadow of Chernobyl was meant to be,” but decries it for “crap script.” Swings and roundabouts.

You can read the entire thing on Oblivion-Lost.de.