The road to Stalker 2‘s launch has been paved with hardship. Developer GSC Game World moved from Kyiv, Ukraine after Russia invaded the country in 2022, then the studio was hit with a barrage of ...

Dishonored director and Arkane founder Raphaël Colantonio says Metacritic encourages safe games, and punishes launches like ...

Players are facing issues with getting stuck on loading screens, crashes, and with Shader Compilation in STALKER 2. Here are ...

An unmarked, unassuming location in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is actually an in-game recreation of a popular piece of ...

The game's bugs are a problem, but we've been here before. Trust in the fans.

GSC Game World has confirmed that Stalker 2 has sold over a million copies across PC and Xbox with more players on Game Pass.

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Do you need to play the other Stalker games first? If you check out Steam.db you can see a fair amount of players are indeed jumping back into OG Stalker ahead of the launch to get in a little ...

Another crash. I sighed because this was far from the first time Stalker 2 had frustrated me with bugs, crashes, or performance problems. It’s a shame, because when the game works it’s a ...

Modders are already hard at work improving Stalker 2, from performance enhancements to changing some of the game's more ...

Stalker 2 is here at last, and Stalker 2 is full of bugs, but developer GSC Game World knows this and has fixes in the works for the open-world game. The bugs, crashes, and performance issues ...

For fans of hardcore shooters or punishing post-apocalypse games, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is truly incomparable. Unfortunately, due to a litany of bugs, it's the greatest game you shouldn't ...