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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'' is a first-person shooter survival horror video game franchise developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World. The series is set in an Parallel universe (fiction), alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006. As a result, the physical, chemical, and biological processes in the area were altered, spawning numerous nature-defying anomalies, artifacts, and mutants. The player takes the role of a "stalker" - a name given to trespassers and adventurers who have come to explore the exclusion zone and its strange phenomena. The series is based on the novel ''Roadside Picnic'' by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and influenced by the 1979 film ''Stalker (1979 film), Stalker'' by Andrei Tarkovsky which was itself adapted from ''Roadside Picnic''. Setting The franchise takes place in an alternate Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (or "the Zone") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GSC Game World
GSC Game World is a Ukrainian video game developer based in Kyiv with a second temporary office in Prague. Founded in Kyiv in 1995 by Sergiy Grygorovych, it is best known for the ''Cossacks (video games series), Cossacks'' and ''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'' series of games. GSC Game World was the first company in Ukraine to Video game localization, localize PC games to the Russian language. In 2002, it became a publishing house, GSC World Publishing. History Founding and early activity The company was founded in 1995 by Sergiy Grygorovych (), who became chief executive officer (CEO). He came up with the company name and emblem in 1993, aged 15. "GSC" are the initials of his name in the transliteration "Grygorovych Sergiy Constantinovich". Later Grygorovych explained this decision: By 1996, the company employed fifteen people in a two-room apartment. Early employees included Grygorovych's younger brother, Evgeniy, and Andrew Prokhorov. The company was the first in Ukraine to translate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |