The back and forth on the status of GSC Gameworld's S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has been an on-going saga for a while now, but perhaps it's time to move on, cause that's what a bunch of former GSC staffers have done as they've founded Vostok Games.
Their first game, Survarium, is a game set in the same kind of universe as S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but this is going to be a massively multiplayer free-to-play experience.
"The concept of Survarium is a next evolution step for the idea of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. we've been working on for the last ten years," project lead Ruslan Didenko, who was also a project lead at GSC, told Gamasutra.
Based in Kiev, Vostok Games hopes to have Survarium ready for launch late in 2013.