Prolific S.T.A.L.K.E.R. modder Pavel 'artistpavel' Dolgov has confirmed that Call of Pripyat will receive a version of his popular 'Complete' overhaul mod compilation series.

Saying only "The work on the third and final entry in the Stalker Complete series has begun," Doglov doesn't reveal exactly what the mod will bring but it'll most likely follow in the footsteps of the much-praised Complete mods for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky, which delivered tweaks and bug fixes plus improved graphics, sounds, music and user interfaces while leaving their gameplay and stories intact. Read more »

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat developer GSC Game World has released a new official multiplayer map for its PC shooter, available in a 5MB download from FileShack.

Titled 'Close Combat,' the map is set around the Jupiter factory location and is apparently "designed for dynamic play with use of close- and medium-range weapons." It also boasts a store that buys picked-up items when played in team deathmatch mode. Read more »

Having previously revealed that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat will be released worldwide in February, publishers bitcomposer and Viva Media have announced that GSC Game World's radioactive open-world PC shooter will arrive in North America on February 2.

Closer in style to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl than its prequel Clear Sky, Call of Pripyat packs DirectX 11 support--as can be seen in the benchmark. Read more »

GSC Game World's creepy PC shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat will be released internationally in February 2010, publisher bitComposer Games announced today.

The news is celebrated with new screenshots showing more of the irradiated Ukranian wasteland as well as one of Pripyat's many downright unsettling lurking horrors.

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A 421MB benchmark tool for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (PC) is now available on FileShack, offering insight into how your system will cope with the post-apocalyptic trappings of GSC Game World's DirectX 11-enabled shooter-RPG.

The benchmark cycles through four stages--day, night, rain, and bright sun--with an online leaderboard allowing users to upload and compare their performance scores. Read more »

To demonstrate S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat's support of DirectX 11, publisher bitComposer has issued some new screenshots from GSC Game World's latest.

The post-apocalyptic S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series has always been suitably creepy, and judging by this trailer, the stand-alone sequel Call of Pripyat looks to continue that lineage.

Taking place after the events of Shadow of Chernobyl, Pripyat players will represent the Ukraine Security Service, sent on a mission to discover what exactly went wrong in the Zone. Answer: everything.

Pripyat hits the PC this fall. Read more »

Journey into the nuclear wasteland with a new S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat trailer, showing a sampling of the gorgeous landscapes and mutated monstrosities set to thrill and chill when GSC Game World's action RPG sequel hits PC this fall.

Developer GSC Game World has launched the official site for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, revealing new screenshots and the system requirements of the action-RPG.

Following up on the events of the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. entry, 2007's Shadow of Chernobyl, Pripyat continues the post-apocalyptic PC shooter series with new options this fall. Read more »

GSC Game World, developer of the post-apocalyptic shooters S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and the prequel Clear Sky, today announced a new game in the series, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (PC).

Pripyat will pick up where the original game left off. Players will take on the role of an agent in the Ukraine Security Service, sent into the Zone to collection information on a failed military operation. Read more »

Developer GSC Game World has apparently revealed plans to release a second stand-alone S.T.A.L.K.E.R. expansion and a full-fledged sequel to the action-RPG.

The expansion, subtitled Call of Pripyat, is due out later this year, according to ClanBase and TTLG. Both sites, originally noticed by Blue's News, cite the same Russian language interview with GSC Game World president Sergey Grigorovitch. Read more »