Our company (Vostok Games) appeared in March 2012 in Kiev. Ten years earlier, when at GSC Game World we started developing the renowned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series and continued working on it until December 2011 when the studio was unexpectedly shut down and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 project – frozen. We did not reach agreement with the rights owner regarding the use of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. brand, that’s why we made the decision to move forward as an independent studio with a new project. That day became our starting point for Vostok Games.
Vostok Games is a new studio founded by veterans of Ukrainian game industry with multi-year experience of developing and releasing commercially successful projects. In March 2012 we reached agreement with Vostok Ventures Ltd. to back up the financing of our new game – free2play MMOFPS Survarium(working title).
Bueno, parece ser que el CEO de GSC-Game world se ha cansado del mundillo y ha tirado la toalla. Ante la imposibilidad de conseguir los derechos de Stalker, los devs de GSC han decidido buscar capital por otros lados (unos inversores ucranianos) para poder seguir con su andadura en el género post-apocalíptico.
Aquí un video de los propios devs donde explican un poco lo acontecido, y lo que esperan conseguir con Survarium: