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Last summer developer GSC Game World announced plans for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, the first real sequel to the company's post-apocalyptic first person shooter that later spawned two stand alone follow up games. Now the official S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Facebook page has posted up a Q&A which gives a little more info on what we can expect from the sequel.

While the Q&A dodges some questions such as if the game will take place in one single zone, how many weapons will there be or if the series' popular character Sidorovich will appear in the sequel it does answer other. The game will have old characters returning while some new characters will pop up and new mutants will show up. The sequel will take place "in the triangle of CNPP, the cities of Chernobyl and Chernobyl 2 (where the huge antenna is located)". It will also have new X-Labs and secret underground complexes to explore and there will be more of a survival aspect to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. The PC port will use DirectX 11 for graphical features and the Q&A states, "Since we develop primarily on PC, you won't see any compromises in the PC version."

[Via VG247.com]

While concrete details of S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 have yet to be revealed, the upcoming first person shooter sequel is already running a contest that could get some of its fans to actually contribute to the game. The official S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Facebook page has announced that fans can sent in ideas for quests they would like to see in the game.

The quest suggestions will be evaluated by the development team at GSC Game World and the best ones will be used in the game with the creators of those quests mentioned in the final game's credits. The development team does reserve the right to alter some of the specifics of the quests submitted by fans while still retaining the essence of the original quest idea. The deadline for entries is March 1, 2011.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. first person shooter game franchise has spanned three PC game installments and a fourth is in the works. Now word has hit the internet that the game series about a post-apocalypse Chernobyl could become a TV series in its native Russia.

A teaser site and trailer for the show, which is appropriately grim and gritty, are already online (you can check out the trailer after the jump). Kotaku reports that the pilot for the show has been self-funded by the game's developer GSC Game World. Talks are underway with Russian and Ukrainian TV networks to turn the pilot into a full TV series. If that happens and if it is successful we might even see the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. TV series show up here in the US (legally, that is).

The announcements and reveals of new games and release dates continue to come in a flood today with the announcement of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, the full-fledged sequel to the post-apocalyse first person shooter series from developer GSC Game World. In a brief post on the developer's web site the company announced that the game would be due out in 2012.

Little info on the game itself was announced with GSC Game World saying only that, "A completely new multi-platform technology developed by GSC will make the core of the game." The original S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl was first released in 2007 after several years of development. Two stand alone follow-ups to the original game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, were released in September 2008 and February 2010, respectively. All three were PC exclusive games. GSC Game World stated today that the series has so far sold a total of four million copies.

[Via Blue's News]