Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been hit with its fifth delay, moving the long-awaited shooter from its planned release date of September 5 to November 20.
The last few years have been rough for developers and the gaming industry as a whole, but they've been especially hard for GSC Game World, the studio behind Stalker 2. After originally being planned for launch in 2012, the project was cancelled and eventually revived with a planned release in 2022. With GSC being based in Ukraine, that release was significantly delayed due to the ongoing Russian Invasion.
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Development on Stalker 2 has steadily continued since the Russian Invasion began, with GSC Game World recently settling on a final release date of September 5, 2024. That release has seemed set in stone for the past few months, but it understandably looks like a little more time is needed to finish things off.
Today, GSC Game World has announced that Stalker 2 has been hit with a hopefully final two-month delay and will now be launching on November 20 instead of September 5. The reason for the delay...
