{"id":178319,"date":"2024-01-19T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=178319"},"modified":"2024-01-19T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:30:18","slug":"stalker-2-finally-gets-a-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gaming\/stalker-2-finally-gets-a-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"STALKER 2 finally gets a release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl was originally announced immediately after the release of STALKER: Call of Pripyat in 2009.\u00a0However, due to the collapse of the development company GSC Game World, the release of the next chapter of the franchise was postponed indefinitely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl \u2014 Strider Trailer\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNGbS0fY80s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Six years later, the project was resumed, and the developers wanted to use the Unreal Engine 5 to make STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl a truly new generation game.\u00a0The game&#8217;s release, scheduled for 2021, was subsequently delayed several times for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>However, the latest announcement still gives the army of franchise fans hope that the date is final.\u00a0GSC Game World has announced that STALKER 2 will be released on September 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-2\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl \u2014 Final Release Date Announcement\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6o6D_a3PAHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the developers, this delay is due to &#8220;a certain number of technical shortcomings and to ensure that gamers get the best possible gaming experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is positioned as a first-person shooter that combines elements of survival horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl was originally announced immediately after the release of STALKER: Call of Pripyat in 2009.\u00a0However, due to the collapse of the development company GSC Game World, the release of the next chapter of the franchise was postponed indefinitely. Six years later, the project was resumed, and the developers wanted to use [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gaming\/stalker-2-finally-gets-a-release-date\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":178320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[777],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-178319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gaming","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}