After a few years of ready, STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl (to offer it its full title) shouldn’t be removed from launch. Admittedly, the developer did must delay the sport as soon as once more, however this ultimate push ought to hopefully make the long-awaited follow-up even sweeter.

Nevertheless, we should be coming to the tip now, as GSC Sport World has introduced that STALKER 2 shall be at this yr’s Gamescom. In a current put up on X, the studio introduced that the demo “will await you within the public zone” on the occasion, which kicks off later this month.

The truth that the put up mentions the Xbox sales space means that it’s going to be the Xbox Collection X|S model of the sport. Not a lot else has been mentioned in regards to the demo, so in case you are attending Gamescom 2024, you could possibly get your Exclusion Zone-based survival horror kicks while you’re there.

No extra delays for STALKER 2

Together with GSC Sport World, different builders and publishers who shall be attending Gamescom 2024 embody: Capcom, EA, Blizzard Leisure, Ubisoft, SEGA, Konami, THQ Nordic, and lots of, many extra. The occasion is being held on the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany between August 21 and August 25.

Nevertheless, not all shall be in attendance. Sony just lately confirmed that PlayStation received’t be at Gamescom this yr. Neither will Nintendo, which suggests there shall be no announcement for the anticipated follow-up to the Change (which everyone seems to be simply referring to because the Change 2 till we hear in any other case).

Again to STALKER 2. It’s excellent news that there shall be a public demo obtainable on the occasion, because it additionally means it’s positively near ending growth. Though it was additionally at Gamescom 2023. Having mentioned that, it’s been a really very long time since there was a brand new entry within the collection, and the likes of Chernobylite can solely decide up some a lot of the slack.