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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]

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]

How many times have we been told that the PC game industry is dying? Console games get the vast majority of media attention and sales for a number of high profile console games reach millions of copies sold. However there are still a number of game franchises that have remained, at least for now, strictly for PC gamers only. We know that console gamers would love to play all of the following game titles:

Check out five PC games that console gamers would love to play after the jump

The worldwide publishing rights to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat have now been announced during Gamescom. German-based bitComposer Games has secured the rights to publish the third game in the first person shooter series from developer GSC Game World.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series has had three separate publishers in it's short history. The original game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. was published by THQ in 2007. The second game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (which served as a prequel to events in the first game) was published by Deep Silver in 2008. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is a sequel to the events of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Confused? So are we. The third game is due for release this fall.

Gallery: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

We've already had a lot of downloadable PC game sales this week so what's a few more between friends?

Steam has announced that it will be offering titles from casual game publisher PlayFirst on its service. From now until August 19 all 10 PlayFirst games via Steam will have a price cut of 10 percent. Also the recent platform action game Trine has a 25 percent price cut until August 19 Direct2Drive has the same price cut offer for Trine.

Meanwhile, GamersGate has announced that the 2008 released first person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky gets a big 50 percent price cut from now until Sunday.

Finally the retail site GoGamer.com has a number of PC games on sale from now until 3 am ET Saturday, including the original Operation Flashpoint for just $5.90, Vietcong 2 for $4.90 and a number of upcoming PC games for smaller discounts. Enjoy the savings.

After taking a few days off (perhaps because they didn't want to compete with E3 2009 coverage), the GoGamer.com web site has posted up some new PC game sales cuts that will end at 3 am ET on Wednesday.

The sale includes some games that are prices at $4.90 including Sid Meier's Railroads, Nox , The Settllers VI: Rise of a Nation and a CSI Double Pack. S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky is also on sale at the site for just $17.90, the Europa Universalis III Complete Collection is priced at $12.90 and the retail release of X3: Terran Conflict (with the Aldrin Missions expansion) has been priced at $26.90.

As we reported a few days ago, the Gamersgate web site has gotten a significant revamp in terms of both features and looks for the game download service. Today the web site offers up some final relaunch weekend deals for a few games on their site.

One is for the first person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky which is being sold this weekend for $14.95, 50 percent off its normal price. If you like ultra-cheap games then you can grab Paradox Interactive's turn based stategy game Galactic Assault: Prisoner of Power for a mere $1.99 this weekend. Finally for just one day the space strategy game Sword of the Stars Ultimate Collection is being sold for $14.95. Yep, that's another 50 percent drop.

Just a few weeks ago GSC Game World announced their plans for S.T.A.K.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, their third game in their post-apocalypse shooter series. Today the developer launched the official web site for the game with even more info and some new screenshots (which we have added to our gallery).

While the game isn't due for release for several months, GSC Game World have already revealed the system specs your PC will need to run the game:

Minimum System Requirements
Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz / AMD XP 2200+
512 MB RAM
128 MB DirectX 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 5700 / ATI Radeon 9600

Recommended System Requirements
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 / AMD 64 X2 5600+
2 GB RAM
512 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD 4850

Confirming rumors that were circulated a few weeks ago, GSC Game World has now officially announced plans to release S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, the third game in their post-apocalyptic first person shooter series. Slated for release this fall the game takes place after the events of the first game in the series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (the second game in the series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky was a prequel to Shadow of Chernobyl).

The story has the player taking on the role of an agent for Ukraine's Security Service that is sent into the radiation zone to investigate what happened to a failed military mission. The game uses real life locations in the Ukranine for its settings and will feature new quests, monsters, a new user interface and more. A publisher for the game has yet to be announced. GSC Game World has already released the first two screenshots from the title.