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You won't survive in STALKER 2 unless you know how to repair and maintain your gear — here's what you have to do

If you don't have good equipment, you won't make it in the Zone. Here's how to repair and maintain your gear in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

Windows Central

STALKER 2 is hardly a perfect game, but The Zone still captivates me like no other open world can

At long last, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has finally come to Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC. But does it live up to the hype? Here's our review.

Windows Central

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review: "The best but most broken game I've played all year"

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl and MSFS 2024 arrive next week — here are the system requirements and driver details

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrive next week, and Nvidia has Game Ready drivers available. Here's a look at the system requirements and other details..

Tom’s Hardware

Ukrainian front-line school system goes underground to protect against bombs and radiation

To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life against the Russian weapons within striking distance

The Independent UK

Patriot by Alexei Navalny review – the man who dared to defy Putin

This remarkable memoir by the bold and fearless Russian opposition leader describes an extraordinary life, from a childhood in the shadow of Chornobyl to surviving a novichok attack and his final days in a remote Arctic penal colony

The Guardian - UK

Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl isn't the mind-bending prospect it once was, but that’s only because we have it so good

The emergent has become the everyday, and shooters are all the better for it

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Xbox has its game of the year contender: Talking Game Pass, Xbox Series S struggles, and the future of STALKER with GSC Game World in our exclusive 'STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl' interview

We spoke to the team behind STALKER 2, which after 3 hours of playing, felt like a tried and tested game of the year contender.

Windows Central

RTX 4070 Ti Super launches with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl theme — GPU bundle comes with a free copy of the game

MSI has created a new RTX 4070 Ti Super Gaming X Slim graphics card featuring a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl color scheme. The GPU was built ahead of the game's launch on November 20.

Tom’s Hardware

Chernobyl Roulette by Serhii Plokhy review – gripping account of wartime chaos at Ukraine’s nuclear plant

The Ukrainian historian compellingly chronicles the singular courage and selflessness of atomic power station employees held hostage by Russian troops in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to Chornobyl, study finds

Much of the land near the atomic bomb’s birthplace was converted to recreational areas, but toxic waste remains

The Guardian - US

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl continues to impress, but the question now is whether it can draw fans of Far Cry, Fallout and Metro into its wasteland of horrors

Opinion | The most recent deep-dive into Stalker 2 showcases a desolate open world I can't wait to explore

GamesRadar

‘With the war in Ukraine, these stories no longer exist’: the final images from inside Chornobyl

A new book brings together Pierpaolo Mittica’s stunning photographs from the devastated, yet still populated, exclusion zone around the destroyed nuclear power plant

The Guardian - UK

My first time playing a STALKER game was at Summer Game Fest, and I think Heart of Chornobyl is going to be special

I got a chance to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl following its Xbox Games Showcase appearance, and I'm officially interested.

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The Guardian - UK

Challenger by Adam Higginbotham review – chronicle of a disaster foretold

The story behind the explosion of the Nasa space shuttle in 1986 is a gripping, damning catalogue of underfunding, labyrinthine bureaucracy and fatal corner-cutting

The Guardian - UK

Abandoned, abused and belittled: how Oksana Masters survived a torturous childhood – and became a world-beating athlete

Born with disabilities in the shadow of Chornobyl, she spent her early life in an orphanage that was also a brothel. Then Masters was adopted, and thrived, becoming a phenomenal rower, skier and cyclist

GamesRadar

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl's brutal wasteland has grown more thrilling with age

Opinion | A classic that gets better, and more terrifying, with time

The Guardian - UK

Dam breach could be Ukraine’s ‘worst ecological disaster since Chornobyl’

Former minister makes grave warning as scientists wait for water to subside before assessing impact

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Reuters

Ukraine condemns Russian nuclear 'blackmail' on Chornobyl anniversary

Ukraine marked the 37th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on Wednesday by urging the world not to bow to Russian "blackmail" over nuclear facilities it has seized during its invasion.

Reuters

As Germany ends nuclear era activist says still more to do

Heinz Smital was a 24-year-old nuclear physics researcher when he first saw how far nuclear contamination could spread after the Chornobyl disaster in 1986.

The Guardian - UK

Oksana Masters: ‘Without sport, I would not have had that healthy way to scream’

The US’s most successful Paralympian, who was born in the shadow of Chornobyl, tells Donald McRae about Ukrainian resilience, her plans for two more Olympics and looking forward to becoming a parent

Reuters

Explainer-The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: who controls it and why is it important?

Repeated shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has raised the possibility of a grave accident just 500 km (300 miles) from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chornobyl disaster.

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Dandelions; Good Reasons to Die; Notes on Grief – reviews

An erudite Italian memoir, a suspenseful Chornobyl-set thriller, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s moving essay about the death of her father

Reuters

'Like Chornobyl': Wary Ukrainians return to ruined towns after Russian retreat

Joy, trepidation and grief flickered across the face of Nataliia Yelistratova as she sat next to her husband on a special train back to their home town of Balakliia that Ukraine recaptured last week after six months of Russian occupation.

Reuters

Key facts about the nuclear plant in the eye of the war in Ukraine

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been shelled in recent days, raising the possibility of a grave accident just 500 km (around 300 miles) from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chornobyl disaster.

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