After several weeks, the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues its course with more and more countries involved in the war and thousands of refugees leaving their homes to settle in other parts of Europe. Everything and everyone has been affected in Ukraine. Nor is GSC Game World saved, the study behind stalker 2 and whose offices are in kyiv. Now we know that STALKER 2 changes its name to claim the Ukrainian script to the detriment of the Russian. Although GSC has not issued an official statement in this regard, the name of the video game has changed on its official website. Steamchanging its subtitle Heart of Chernobyl to Heart of Chornobyl.
Chornobyl is the ukrainian pronunciation of the city of Chernobyl, internationally known with the Russian form. However, given the seriousness of the events that have been taking place in recent weeks, GSC Game World has made this decision, surely, to provide greater foreign recognition to the Ukrainian culture that is threatened today. The official game arts and texts on the official website of the game are still have not been changed and they continue to reflect the word Chernobyl as they did until a few hours ago. It is to be expected, however, that little by little this variation will be applied to the game in all its aspects.
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Meanwhile, the development of STALKER 2 continues discontinued given the impossibility of the developers of GSC Game World to go to their workstations normally, which adds to the delay until the end of 2022 that the Ukrainian company announced before Russia invaded the country presided over by Volodimir Zelenski. Of course, the most important thing at the moment is the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine and the return to normality for the Ukrainian population, so the development of STALKER 2. is completely secondary.