S.T.A.L.K.E.R. debuts on January 24th

While many readers and journalists started to put this game into the same category as Duke Nuk'em Forever, the Ukrainian game development team, GSC Gameworld, finally managed to polish the code and wrap up something which could be as big as the coming DX10 heavyweights such as Crysis and UT2k7.

In order to get all of those paper and on-line magazines ready for a March 22nd release, THQ teamed up with Omega Sektor. And so we shall see the dubiously named Stalkathon, a 24 hour press "marathon" with the final version of the code. Date is 24th to 25th of January, location is OmegaSektor LAN in Harrow, Middlesex.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will be demoed in Omega Sektor prototype store, consisted out of 70 state-of-the-art machines consisted out of Intel Core 2 Duo and Geforce 7950GX2 graphics cards, but the final things will feature 8800 graphics cards.

Sadly, yours truly needs to do a little job in Italy, so I won't make it to the Stalkathon. But the review will be out as soon as THQ sends us the review code.

It's been a long, long wait. µ