It seems like Stalker 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl may nonetheless launch this 12 months, regardless of no latest updates on how the sport is doing.
Final 12 months, Stalker 2 was very understandably delayed into 2023 because of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. So it is very cheap that we have not actually heard a lot concerning the recreation in latest months. However as noticed by wccftech, it seems that the upcoming shooter may really be releasing in 2023 nonetheless, based mostly on an inventory on the shop web page for the sport’s distributor, Plaion. The discharge date is presently slated as December 1, and as wccftech factors out, it won’t be a placeholder. Different video games listed on the web site that do appear to have placeholder dates notice that they’re launched on December 31.
December 1 is clearly extra particular than that, so until it is simply an inconsistent mistake with the remainder of placeholder dates, it is attainable Stalker 2 will meet its 2023 launch window. The sport’s Steam web page does record it as having a December launch date nonetheless, however that is not essentially a affirmation of the sport being out by the tip of the 12 months.
Whether or not it does or not, we should always actually lower developer GSC Sport World a complete lot of slack, as because of the invasion the staff needed to relocate to Prague.
Earlier this 12 months, GSC Sport World additionally suffered from a hack, allegedly carried out by a bunch of hackers on a Russian social community, main the staff to ask followers to keep away from any leaks that have been launched.
Stalker 2 is a very long time within the making, because it first introduced the sport method again in 2018, initially anticipated to reach in 2021. That clearly did not occur, with the pandemic clearly affecting growth even earlier than the invasion first began.
Whereas Stalker 2’s launch date continues to be up within the air, each time it does launch it will likely be out there on Xbox Collection X/S and PC.
