Gamers looking forward to another visit into the forbidden zone of Chernobyl will surely be disappointed. Ukrainian studio GSC Game World has cancelled their upcoming project, “S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2” today via their facebook page. In the post they acknowledge that they were in fact able to receive investors for the new project, but those investors weren’t comfortable with the tenuous licensing ownership over the Stalker brand.
It’s not all bad news though, as the company is refocusing its efforts on a new project called, Survarium a free to play first person shooter MMO. Set in a near future where Earth is ravaged, the project is expected for the end of next year. Considering the original STALKER played almost like a first person MMO without the multiplayer, I’d say this is good news.