Stalker: The Mods, Return To Clear Sky
The past week of my gaming time has been dominated by Stalker mods: downloading, testing, crashing, deleting, reinstalling, and even a few hours of playing. For Shadow Of Chernobyl there’s pretty much...
View ArticleGamersGate: Redesigned, Crazy Sales
This is the kind of thing we’d normally leave for LewieP to herd into his weekly Bargain Bucket post, but if we wait to mention it till Sunday, most of the great offers will be gone. So, call this the...
View ArticleRedemption Song: Clear Sky Complete
There aren’t many things that could possibly lure me back to STALKER: Clear Sky, knowing the series’ troubled second game is bookended by far finer titles. One of them, however, is hearing that...
View ArticleFurther New Dawns For Clear Sky
A few people have mailed us over the past few weeks suggesting that we take a look at the Total Faction War mod v1.8 by PhoenixHeart, Darkenneko and Smoq2. I finally got around to doing that this...
View ArticleMod News: Clever Girl
Quite a lot of mod news this week, apparently, even though there’s very little for you to actually play. There’s a long-awaited update from Jurrassic Life, as well as plenty of other gubbins related...
View ArticleGet Out Of Here: GSC Closure “Confirmed”
LATEST UPDATE: GSC’s twitter this morning announced there will be an official statement on Monday. 1c Ukraine’s Sergey Galenkin has blogged about the closure of GSC. He states: “GSC is closed, a fact...
View ArticleStalker 2: A Light In The Wasteland
The sudden apparent closure of GSC GameWorld and death of Stalker 2 is, for me, the saddest gaming news of this year, and a whole lot of other years to boot. Jim eloquently summed up why over the...
View ArticleIn the Zone: How Gamers Experience The Real Chernobyl
I am standing in the middle of Pripyat in what was intended to be the site of the 1986 May Day festivities. Now an expanse of cracked concrete, the iconic rusting ferris wheel stands behind me. No one...
View ArticleAll STALKER Games Saved From GameSpy Server Meltdown
GameSpy has officially exploded, and games are still fleeing from ground zero while green smoke and shrapnel billows every which way. It’s been a messy process, to say the least, with some games...
View ArticleDon’t Just Stand There, Etc: The STALKER Bundle
Discounts on the STALKER trilogy (which seems like the wrong way to categorise the series somehow, but never mind) tend to wheel around pretty often, but this is particularly good deal for the whole...
View ArticleOwn S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? Get It Free And DRM-Free From GOG
The one certainty with news items about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. [official site] is there’s at least a 70 percent chance they’ve been planted by Jim. Thanks Jim! GOG.com continues to blow the horn in support of...
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