{"id":30644,"date":"2012-01-12T12:17:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T10:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30644"},"modified":"2012-01-12T12:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T10:29:06","slug":"stalker-2-development-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30644-stalker-2-development-back-on-track","title":{"rendered":"STALKER 2 development back on track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite recent talks about GSC Game World going bust, and the team behind the iconic STALKER series being \u201calmost completely dissolved\u201d, it would seem that STALKER 2 development is continuing, according to the official STALKER Facebook profile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stalker team is extremely happy! Why? Because we are continuing work on Stalker 2 after the holidays,\u201d reads a recent status update, which has since received over 2,000 \u201clikes\u201d and over 400 comments.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours that the studio was facing closure begin surfacing towards the end of 2011. An \u201cinformed source\u201d reportedly told a Ukranian news site that studio head Sergei Grigorovich made the announcement at a staff meeting, and that the studio would be shutting down due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A tweet from the company later denied that it was closing down.<\/p>\n<p>However, to confuse matters further, a later tweet then said: \u201cWe will do our best to continue. However, at this moment, nothing is certain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the first positive confirmation from the developer that STALKER 2 is not dead in the water, and we\u2019re holding thumbs that it stays that way.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialstalker\/posts\/354976321194956\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite rumours of closure, GSC Gamesword continues work on Stalker 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":30646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1547,21,1546],"class_list":["post-30644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-gsc","tag-headline","tag-stalker-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30648,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30644\/revisions\/30648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}