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If there's one thing that Stalker does brilliantly, it's lure you into exploring areas with the promise of loot and unveiled mystery.

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Dear players! Many of you have faced a problem of making S.T.A.L.K.E.R. run on your PC today. On behalf of GSC Game World, we would like to apologize for the inconveniences caused.

The problem of running the game is caused by temporary shutdown of our internet service. According to our colleagues, the situation will be resolved within the next few hours. For players who would like to play in single mode or in multiplayer over LAN, as a temporary solution, we suggest disconnecting the internet network cable on your PC on launch of the game, or disabling the internet connection via Windows OS tools.

We are thankful for your understanding of this situation.
Sincerely
Web-site Administration

GSC Game World announces S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 – the official sequel to best-selling game series – in development now. A completely new multi-platform technology developed by GSC will make the core of the game.

"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. universe. This will be the next chapter of the mega-popular game players expect from us" - said Sergiy Grygorovych, CEO of GSC Game World.

The game is scheduled for release in 2012.

Here comes a good news for all the fans of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat multiplayer gaming: we are happy to offer the players an absolutely new game map made available for download today.

The map, named 'close combat' is a compact game location featuring a warehouse of containers in the Jupiter factory locale. The map is designed for dynamic play with use of close- and medium-range weapons. An interesting touch about the map is availability of one store per two teams for selling picked-up items in TDM (team deathmatch) mode.

The map is available for free download here. To install the map, run the downloaded .exe file, then follow the automatic instructions of the installation program.

Wishing you a great fun with the new map play!

Good news for those who consider room space more valuable then disc space, now that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is available on Steam! English, Russian, French, Italian and Spanish language versions could be found there.

We would like to mention that there is also a Loyality Promo available, which grants a special discount for those who already own the Steam Version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Steam page

We would like to congratulate all the fans of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to today's worldwide release of the game!

From now on, s.t.a.l.k.e.r.s from all over the world have a possibility to join the comrades from ex-USSR in search of artifact, exploration of new territories and revealing what Pripyat city has to hide.

Enjoy the game!

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Undeniably, one of the key events in the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. this year was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Fest, the first international festival of s.t.a.l.k.e.r. culture to have gathered about 200 thousand participants on Kiev's central plaza.

As a small New Year present, please, accept our video of the festival – we collected snippets of all the best to have taken place on Square of Independence that October day and put them together into a story we are happy to offer for viewing today.

Enjoy the video and wishing you a happy holiday season! Good luck!

Download S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Fest video

On the Christmas Eve the GSC Game World team would like to wish success, health and prosperity to all the players, partners and friends, to all those who have been supporting us for many years. We would like to present you a postcard that we hope will spark a smile and serve a good start of the upcoming year!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Download the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. New Year wallpaper

From now on we will present the best results obtained while checking your system performance with the recent S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark. The dynamically changing Top 100 of results will always demonstrate the up-to-date situation, based on the test results sent.
Join the battle of systems to gain your spot among the best hundred!

We are glad to present you a special version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Having your PC tested with benchmark you will be able to get detailed information about its performance on various graphical modes and find out how well your system is balanced for gaming and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat in particular.

This benchmark is based on one of the ingame locations – Pripyat . The testing process includes four stages, those utilizing various weather and time of the day settings (day, night, rain, bright sun). In order to test your system thoroughly the benchmark is provided with a number of presets and options including different versions of DirectX (9.0, 10.0, 11), screen resolutions, antialiasing etc, all at your disposal.

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Today, November 5, 2009 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Windows PC.

The publisher bitComposer Games announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is available in two versions: a standard version and a limited special edition. The special edition game comes in a cool metal box with lots of extra goodies for fans. Besides a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. lighter, there's an A3 map of the area, two embroidered badges and a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bandana.

In United States, United Kingdom and the rest of Europe the game is slanted for release in Q1 2010.

Check out our special section Where to buy for the game order links.