Stalker developer GSC Game World has been added to the Russian government's list of "undesirable organisations," per a press release from the country's Prosecutor General's Office. In other words, it's been deemed a threat to the "foundations of Russia's constitutional order, defensive capacity and security," and anyone in Russia maintaining ties to the studio could face punishment.
GSC might be the most famous of the myriad Ukrainian studios affected by Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The war forced the studio to relocate from its former home of Kyiv to offices in Prague; one of its developers, Volodymyr Yezhov, was killed in action in December 2022; and the studio has come under repeated propaganda attacks from anti-Ukrainian forces and disgruntled Russian ex-fans.
