GSC Game World

GSC Game World is a private Ukrainian company engaged in the development of video games.

It was founded 27 years ago in 1995 by Sergey Grigorovich, who is currently the CEO of the company. The name of the company GSC is an abbreviation of the surname and initials of its founder, it stands for Grigorovich Sergiy Constantinovich.

Since 1995, the company was one of the first to translate video games into Russian.

Since 1997, GSC Game World has been trying itself as a game developer, failing due to a lack of workers and resources, but still by 1999, the company's first game based on its own WarCraft 2000 engine appeared on the network.

In 2001, a full-fledged video game developed by GSC appeared. It was a real-time strategy game for Windows "Cossacks: European Wars". This game has brought success and recognition in the community of players.

For the next few years, GSC Game World pleases fans with the continuation of "Cossacks" and the tactical first-person shooter "Venom", while simultaneously developing its own new game engine "X-Ray".

In 2002, GSC Game World company returns from a trip to the Chernobyl exclusion Zone and decides to dedicate its next game to the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The project gets the working name "Stalker. Oblivion Lost».

On March 20, 2007, after numerous postponements and improvements, the game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl" was officially released. This game was included in the top 10 best-selling PC games of 2007. The book series "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." is being launched, which expands and complements the universe of books. By 2022, the book series has more than 317 unique works.

On August 22, 2008, the first supplement "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky" was released. This is the prequel "S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl".

On October 2, 2009, the second supplement "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: The Call of Pripyat" was released, which is a sequel to the game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl".

On August 13, 2010, GSC Game World announced the development of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 project, a full-fledged continuation of the series of games about the Chernobyl Zone. But on December 9, 2011, the closure of GSC Game World was announced and the development of a new ball game was discontinued.