Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the long-in-the-works sequel to developer GSC Game World’s cult-classic 2007 post-apocalyptic horror shooter, has been delayed again. It’s now due to launch on 20th November, giving the studio “breathing room to address technical issues”.

Word of the delay surfaced on reddit today from a user who said they’d been emailed about the date change by GSC Game World. The news has now been publicly confirmed by the developer in a video titled “Really, again?” posted to YouTube, below.

Stalker 2 has, of course, had quite the journey to release. It was originally set to arrive in 2012, having been announced by GSC Game World two years prior, but those plans were eventually shelved following troubles at the studio. It was a bit of a surprise, then, when Stalker 2 re-emerged in 2018 with a new release window of 2021.

Since then, however, Stalker 2’s development has had numerous setbacks. First, its release date moved to April 2022 before shifting again to December, but the Kyiv-based GSC was then forced to put the game on hold following Russian’s invasion of Ukraine. Development resumed in May 2022, with some of the team relocatin…

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Developer NetherRealm has pulled the plug on its free-to-play mobile game Mortal Kombat: Onslaught, just days after the studio reportedly laid off its entire mobile team.

Mortal Kombat: Onslaught, a character-collecting RPG featuring faces from across the fighting series, was announced in October 2022 and arrived almost exactly one year later. It promised a “mobile-exclusive” story and “massive real-time group battles” for up to ten fighters.

Nine months on, however, and Onslaught is officially shutting down. NetherRealm announced the news on Twitter/X, writing, “We are sorry to inform you that Mortal Kombat: Onslaught will close its operations in October. It has been an honour creating this game for our Kommunity, and we appreciate the enthusiasm from our fans.”

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A screenshot purportedly taken from Cloud Chamber’s upcoming BioShock game – codenamed “Parkside” – has popped up online.
Whilst the image itself isn’t particularly exciting – we can see a weapon, called the “ricochet shotgun” and some kind of weird glowing sphere, er, thing – we do get to see how the UI looked at the time the demo was created (thought to be around 2021), and get our first peek at some of the powers available to players.

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Royal Mail has revealed a set of stamps featuring familiar faces from the Dungeons & Dragons universe, including Baldur’s Gate 3 favourites such as the Mindflayer and Owlbear, which have apparently been personally approved by the King.

Other designs include the Gelatinous Cube, Mimic, Displacer Beast and Vecna, alongside a party of player characters including a tiefling rogue, human bard, halfling cleric, elf fighter, dwarf paladin and dragonborn wizard.

A “presentation pack” with the full set of stamp designs costs £24.40, and ships on 25th July. If you’re feeling flush, Royal Mail has a whole shop full of other D&D stamp paraphenalia you can purchase, including three enlarged prints for £150 each.

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