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STALKER 2’s subtitle has changed from ‘Heart of Chernobyl’ to ‘Heart of Chornobyl’ to reflect the Ukrainian way of referring to the city in which the game takes place.
GSC Game World , developer studio of STALKER 2 , has decided to change the official name of the game in its PC version : if we access its Steam page we can see that the subtitle that appears ‘Heart of Chornobyl’ instead of ‘Heart of Chernobyl ‘ original . The company has not specified the reason for this change, but it relate to the Russian invasion of Ukraine which, among its multiple effects on the video game industry , has caused the paralysis of the development of this game since this study has its headquartered in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
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Why has Chernobyl been changed to Chornobyl?
The name ‘Chernobyl’ , by which most of us know the famous Ukrainian city where the unfortunate nuclear incident took place in 1986, is actually the Russian way of calling this town . That is why GSC Game World, one of the studios that has led the requests for help against the invasion of Russia , would have changed the name of its game so that the name ‘Chornobyl’ appears, which is what is the name of this city in ukrainian It is not an officially confirmed theory, but everything seems to indicate that this is the reason for the name change of STALKER 2 .
At the moment this change is only reflected in some sections of the STALKER 2 file on Steam, while in images and official social networks, as well as in the Xbox digital store , the old name is maintained . We understand that little by little the title will be modified in other spaces so that for its launch, whenever it may be, it appears with the Ukrainian name of Chornobyl instead of with its Russian version.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl was scheduled to arrive on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and PC for December 8 , a date that has most likely been compromised due to the current situation.
