{"id":125133,"date":"2022-05-23T08:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125133"},"modified":"2022-05-23T08:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:55:24","slug":"stalker-2-development-has-resumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125133-stalker-2-development-has-resumed","title":{"rendered":"Stalker 2 development has resumed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developer GSC Game World confirmed last week that the development of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has resumed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work continues and is in progress,\u201d said GSC Game World community representative Mol1t in a post on the game\u2019s official <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/stalker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discord<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first sign of good news for fans since GSC announced that it would pause the game&#8217;s development in early March due to the Russian invasion of its employees&#8217; home country, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the only information given to fans was that the title of the game was being renamed Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl to reflect the Ukrainian, rather than Russian, spelling.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the developer also announced that the team would be moving from Kyiv to Prague in the hopes of continuing their work.<\/p>\n<p>There is no indication of how much development is back in motion or whether this delay will impact the expected release date.<\/p>\n<p>For now, however, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl\u2019s release date remains 8 December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be released on PC and Xbox Series X\/S, and pre-orders are available via the Game&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stalker2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl\u2019s Gameplay trailer below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjDMwsbaSd8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Read: <a title=\"Permalink to Free-to-play \u2018Roller Champions\u2019 releasing soon\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125113-free-to-play-roller-champions-releasing-soon\" rel=\"bookmark\">Free-to-play \u2018Roller Champions\u2019 releasing soon<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalker 2 has reportedly resumed development after the Ukraine invasion forced developers to pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":125134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1966,7807,15397,26209,243],"class_list":["post-125133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-games","tag-gsc-game-world","tag-pc","tag-stalker-2-heart-of-chernobyl","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}