Our russian part of site has recieved long time waited interview from Oleg Yavorsky and O-L decided to end the strike, so from this time its finished :)

Our forum and site decided to support oblivion-lost.de with their fight agaist policy of THQ and GSC. For now we are closed!

A new video from the french guys. Another 4 minutes of e3 stalker action.

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A new e3 video of Stalker: Clear Sky from gametrailers.

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The same video in HD quality:
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And a poor quality video from onlinewelten.
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The first previews are out:


Pc Zone offers a great preview of the upcoming game. Describing the main features and the differences from the original game, it is a must read for all.
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Ign gives a brief overview of the upcoming game, focusing their story on a demo, that was shown at E3.
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Gamespots preview is mostly the same as the IGNs one. If you want to read about the e3 demo, it is your choice.
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Several new screenshots and arts from the web were added to our gallery. Enjoy :)

The rest is here.

GSC have have kept their promise and announced Stalker: Clear Sky. It is a prequel to the original game. The new project was shown at E3. A video is available from this presentation. You can download it here:


Gameplay video
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Screenshots:



A new game deserves a new gallery. The rest of the screenshots are there here

Info from the official site:

The story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky brings the players one year prior to the events of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game in 2011.
A group of stalkers has for the first time reached the very heart of the Zone – Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and brings about a cataclysm on the brink of a catastrophe. An immense blowout of anomalous energy changes the Zone. There are no more reliable and relatively safe roads. The entire levels vanish in the outbursts of anomalies. Stalkers and even expeditions die or end up sealed on the lost territories. New areas, which remained unknown since the time of the Zone emergence, appear on the Zone map. The Zone continues to shake with blowouts. The Zone is unstable. The anomalous activity is at its maximum.

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The fourth of the weekly series of development progress reports:

The exhibition is very close. Besides preparation of the game for the exhibition, we got massive work with the press, preparation of materials, interviews. We are working with publications all around the world. An announcement is an announcement.

The final cosmetic changes are being made to the E3 demo, and we are returning to a normal work schedule.

The main efforts of the team are directed at linking new levels to the map of the Zone and addition of new functionality - faction wars. We want to launch a working fully version as soon as possible, so that we have more time for testing and polishing.

Anton Bolshakov in an interview to Computer and Video Games told about an upcoming "huge update". The main feature of it - the new game play mode, which is based on the famous A-Life - a life simulation system .

"We are working on a new patch, which will introduce a new game mode - Freeplay. This new mode doesnt have a story line, the main idea is to survive. You play, you improve your ranks in order to become the best Stalker of the zone."

This was supposed to be the main game mode and now it will be finaly out.
Anton Bolshakov has mentioned, that the SDK for the single-player will be released along with the patch.

Also GSC Game World has plans to present a new game from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe and unveil some details about it.

The third of the weekly series of development progress reports:


E3 is drawing closer, the crunch is getting stronger...

This is why today we can only give you a short news report, although there won't be many more details until E3.

The prequel has gained a name ... censored by PR.
The first and the second levels ...censored by PR... are finished for demonstration at E3.
Wars between factions are working for the test levels (prequel).
Development of the DX10 renderer has started. The renderer programmer is working at full speed.

Patch 1.0004 release candidate has been submitted to THQ for approval.

In short, these are all the news this week.