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

Undeniably, one of the key events in the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. this year was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Fest, the first international festival of s.t.a.l.k.e.r. culture to have gathered about 200 thousand participants on Kiev's central plaza.

As a small New Year present, please, accept our video of the festival – we collected snippets of all the best to have taken place on Square of Independence that October day and put them together into a story we are happy to offer for viewing today.

Enjoy the video and wishing you a happy holiday season! Good luck!

Download S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Fest video

On the Christmas Eve the GSC Game World team would like to wish success, health and prosperity to all the players, partners and friends, to all those who have been supporting us for many years. We would like to present you a postcard that we hope will spark a smile and serve a good start of the upcoming year!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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From now on we will present the best results obtained while checking your system performance with the recent S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat benchmark. The dynamically changing Top 100 of results will always demonstrate the up-to-date situation, based on the test results sent.
Join the battle of systems to gain your spot among the best hundred!

We are glad to present you a special version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Having your PC tested with benchmark you will be able to get detailed information about its performance on various graphical modes and find out how well your system is balanced for gaming and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat in particular.

This benchmark is based on one of the ingame locations – Pripyat . The testing process includes four stages, those utilizing various weather and time of the day settings (day, night, rain, bright sun). In order to test your system thoroughly the benchmark is provided with a number of presets and options including different versions of DirectX (9.0, 10.0, 11), screen resolutions, antialiasing etc, all at your disposal.

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Today, November 5, 2009 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is released in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Windows PC.

The publisher bitComposer Games announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is available in two versions: a standard version and a limited special edition. The special edition game comes in a cool metal box with lots of extra goodies for fans. Besides a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. lighter, there's an A3 map of the area, two embroidered badges and a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. bandana.

In United States, United Kingdom and the rest of Europe the game is slanted for release in Q1 2010.

Check out our special section Where to buy for the game order links.

Here comes a brand-new official trailer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, available for download in big and small versions. The video showcases Burer, a new arrival in the monster pack of the game.

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The first official video of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat demonstrating action gameplay is now available on our web-site.

Click on the Files section to download the trailer in resolution as most suitable for you.

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bitComposer Games has secured the worldwide rights to the next first person shooter, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, of the Ukrainian developer team GSC Game World.

With over 2 million copies sold, the new episode of the most internationally successful S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series seamlessly connects to the first part of the Shadow of Chernobyl.

The release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat for Windows PC is scheduled for autumn 2009. We were able to enlist NAMCO BANDAI Partners Germany as our sales partner, which will guarantee a consistent distribution of the title.

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As the saying goes, fortune is a picky lady, impossible to find or buy.

But standard rules don't work in the Zone, which means some good luck can be bought here. To do this you just need to locate a trader and purchase Eye artifact which helps to heal wounds but on top of this, as experienced s.t.a.l.k.e.r.s say, it brings fortune.
Go to the Artifacts section and read all pros and cons of the Eye before rushing to seek it.

S.t.a.l.k.e.r.s brought new interesting pictures from Pripyat and decided to show it to all people who even once were in this legendary city.
On these photos you can see "Berezka" shop, school №1, Yubileiny service center,kindergarten and also bulding 14 at Lenin avenue.