Insider expects many game delays this year

In very early 2007, THE, the video game publisher, revealed that Stalker was the phrase for Scavengers, Trespassers, Adventurers, Loners, Killers, Explorers and Robbers. Converted into French, these terms imply looters, transgressors, travelers, solitary, burglars, killers as well as explorers. The English verb to stalk likewise indicates improvement development, trace, hunting.

Stalker: Darkness of Chernobyl (initially Stalker: Oblivion LOST) is a computer game created by the Ukrainian GSC Game World Studio. This is a survival — first-person shooting game integrating role-play items. In Stalker, the player takes the identification of an artifact of the location. The area is the location of explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, which has ended up being a No Male's Land where radiation reason unusual modifications in fauna and also plants, along with abnormalities in physical legislations. The gamer can move to make his missions.

Following the official postponement of Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl, many have been disappointed. The sequel took time to come and suffered several cancellations. The fans of the original games will unfortunately have to wait a little, and they may not be the only ones to have to wait.

According to an initiate, this delay is only the beginning. Danny O'Dwyer from Giant Bomb and No Clip Video thinks that many games will be delayed this year. O'Dwyer said that most industry developers are still under the shock of the pandemic.

The past year led companies to pivot and adapt to restrictions and other limitations of their usual development process. And unfortunately, the pandemic is still not part.

Many games that were to go out this year were unfortunately in the early stages of development when the pandemic hit for the first time. So there has been a lot of time lost during the first months of restrictions when any development has indeed stopped.

For Stalker 2, O'Dwyer believes that the game will actually be delayed even more than in December. However, he continues by saying that many games supposed to go out next month should be on the right track. They were closer to liberation.

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