The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series may move into the house that built Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, if a new report proves accurate. Ukranian blogger-marketer Sergey Galyonkin–who reportedly accurately predicted the demise of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 earlier this year–now claims in a new blog entry that Bethesda has acquired the rights to develop and publish a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title.

Galyonkin writes (via Google Translate) that he has heard from a “very reliable source” that GSC Game World CEO Sergei Grigorovich has not sold the brand to Bethesda entirely, but will allow the publisher to develop a game set in the action-shooter universe.

Under the reported stipulations of the deal, Bethesda has picked up the rights to a game, with Grigorovich holding on to the rights for everything else (books, movies, and merchandise), though that could change.

A Bethesda representative told GameSpot, “we don’t comment on rumors and speculation.”

Earlier this year, developer GSC Game World was shut down, with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 being canceled outright, despite efforts to keep the project alive. A spin-off studio–Vostok Games–rose from the ashes, and is now working on Survarium, a near-future game coming to the PC next year.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are centered around Chernobyl, which suffered a nuclear reactor meltdown in 1986. In the original game, the town is subjected to a second dose of nuclear fallout, spawning a rash of hideously mutated monsters. GSC Game World released two follow-ups to the original game: Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat.

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I learn that way too. Seems a bit silly to leave out that kind of thing, considering even guitar hero has a practice mode where you can change the speed settings. But I guess you can always just put the game on pause and practice the old fashioned way.

 Darnasian You don’t say? o.O (note the sarcasm)  I don’t really understand what acronym MOBA’s supposed to stand for but i’m guessing it’s the LoL and Dota genre of games.

I agree that playing similar type of games would kindof teach me the basics of the genre but that would be way more timeconsuming than someone experienced actually explaining why and how you should play, not to mention small things like (last hit killing and the sort) would never have been something a n00b would think about unless someone actually mentioned it’s a good tactic. 

Aaaand, me mentioning that they should also do a guide like this for starcraft (since rts games are infamous for beeing hard for n00bs) doesn’t in any way mean that DOTA 2 is an rts 😛

And finally, not to be all in your face or anything, (note the sarcasm again), but even though Dota per say might not specifically be an rts, if you know anything about the genre, you should also know know that Dota indeed stems from a little rts game known as Warcraft 3.