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Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl isn't the mind-bending prospect it once was, but that’s only because we have it so good

The emergent has become the everyday, and shooters are all the better for it

GamesRadar

Xbox has its game of the year contender: Talking Game Pass, Xbox Series S struggles, and the future of STALKER with GSC Game World in our exclusive 'STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl' interview

We spoke to the team behind STALKER 2, which after 3 hours of playing, felt like a tried and tested game of the year contender.

Windows Central

RTX 4070 Ti Super launches with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl theme — GPU bundle comes with a free copy of the game

MSI has created a new RTX 4070 Ti Super Gaming X Slim graphics card featuring a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl color scheme. The GPU was built ahead of the game's launch on November 20.

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Chernobyl Roulette by Serhii Plokhy review – gripping account of wartime chaos at Ukraine’s nuclear plant

The Ukrainian historian compellingly chronicles the singular courage and selflessness of atomic power station employees held hostage by Russian troops in 2022

The Guardian - UK

Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to Chornobyl, study finds

Much of the land near the atomic bomb’s birthplace was converted to recreational areas, but toxic waste remains

The Guardian - US

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl continues to impress, but the question now is whether it can draw fans of Far Cry, Fallout and Metro into its wasteland of horrors

Opinion | The most recent deep-dive into Stalker 2 showcases a desolate open world I can't wait to explore

GamesRadar

‘With the war in Ukraine, these stories no longer exist’: the final images from inside Chornobyl

A new book brings together Pierpaolo Mittica’s stunning photographs from the devastated, yet still populated, exclusion zone around the destroyed nuclear power plant

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My first time playing a STALKER game was at Summer Game Fest, and I think Heart of Chornobyl is going to be special

I got a chance to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl following its Xbox Games Showcase appearance, and I'm officially interested.

Windows Central

Challenger by Adam Higginbotham review – chronicle of a disaster foretold

The story behind the explosion of the Nasa space shuttle in 1986 is a gripping, damning catalogue of underfunding, labyrinthine bureaucracy and fatal corner-cutting

The Guardian - UK

Abandoned, abused and belittled: how Oksana Masters survived a torturous childhood – and became a world-beating athlete

Born with disabilities in the shadow of Chornobyl, she spent her early life in an orphanage that was also a brothel. Then Masters was adopted, and thrived, becoming a phenomenal rower, skier and cyclist

The Guardian - UK

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl's brutal wasteland has grown more thrilling with age

Opinion | A classic that gets better, and more terrifying, with time

GamesRadar

Dam breach could be Ukraine’s ‘worst ecological disaster since Chornobyl’

Former minister makes grave warning as scientists wait for water to subside before assessing impact

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine condemns Russian nuclear 'blackmail' on Chornobyl anniversary

Ukraine marked the 37th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster on Wednesday by urging the world not to bow to Russian "blackmail" over nuclear facilities it has seized during its invasion.

Reuters

As Germany ends nuclear era activist says still more to do

Heinz Smital was a 24-year-old nuclear physics researcher when he first saw how far nuclear contamination could spread after the Chornobyl disaster in 1986.

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Oksana Masters: ‘Without sport, I would not have had that healthy way to scream’

The US’s most successful Paralympian, who was born in the shadow of Chornobyl, tells Donald McRae about Ukrainian resilience, her plans for two more Olympics and looking forward to becoming a parent

Reuters

Explainer-The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: who controls it and why is it important?

Repeated shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has raised the possibility of a grave accident just 500 km (300 miles) from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chornobyl disaster.

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Dandelions; Good Reasons to Die; Notes on Grief – reviews

An erudite Italian memoir, a suspenseful Chornobyl-set thriller, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s moving essay about the death of her father

Reuters

'Like Chornobyl': Wary Ukrainians return to ruined towns after Russian retreat

Joy, trepidation and grief flickered across the face of Nataliia Yelistratova as she sat next to her husband on a special train back to their home town of Balakliia that Ukraine recaptured last week after six months of Russian occupation.

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Key facts about the nuclear plant in the eye of the war in Ukraine

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been shelled in recent days, raising the possibility of a grave accident just 500 km (around 300 miles) from the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chornobyl disaster.

Reuters

Explainer-The vast nuclear plant in the eye of the war in Ukraine

Reuters

Under pressure: Ukrainians at nuclear plant work under Russian guns - technician

Ukrainian technicians at the Russian-held nuclear power plant hit by shelling work under the barrels of Russian guns and face huge pressure, but they are staying on to make sure there is no Chornobyl-style disaster, one of them said.

PC Gamer

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl — Everything we know

Get the skinny on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, GSC Game World's long-awaited follow-up to the Stalker trilogy.

The Guardian - UK

Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh review – in search of meaning in Chornobyl’s forbidden wasteland

A Ukrainian writer reflects on the joys and costs of a life dedicated to illegally exploring the nuclear site

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The Lost Manuscript

Already manuscripts are burning, / and the snow from Chornobyl is flying

Reuters

Chornobyl radiation detectors back online, levels normal - IAEA

Radiation detectors in the Exclusion Zone around Ukraine's defunct Chornobyl nuclear power plant are back online for the first time since Russia seized the area on Feb. 24, and radiation levels are normal, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday.

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