private industry video game industry founded 1995 ; 21 years ago 1995 founder sergey grigorovich headquarters kiev ukraine area served worldwide key people sergey grigorovich ceo divisions gsc world publishing website gsc game.com logo of gsc world publishing gsc game world s former cis publishing arm gsc game world is a ukrainian video game developer based in kiev ukraine . founded in 1995 by hryhorovych serhiy it is best known for the cossacks and s.t.a.l.k.e.r. series of games . their first game was the 2000 cossacks european wars which directly led to their breakthrough . in 2004 gsc game world opened their publishing arm gsc world publishing which would publish and distribute their titles in the commonwealth of independent states . their next successful series s.t.a.l.k.e.r. started with s.t.a.l.k.e.r. shadow of chernobyl on 20 march 2007 and was followed up with two sequels in 2008 and 2009 respectively . in september 2009 they announced that the s.t.a.l.k.e.r. series would be ported to xbox 360 and playstation 3 however due to a lack of manpower they instead shifted to the development of s.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 which later got stuck in development hell . 1 on 9 december 2011 gsc game world was officially dissolved and in march 2012 a new studio vostok games was opened by former gsc game world staff to produce a free to play first person shooter which would later become survarium . 2 in june 2012 a controversial new studio union studio was formed which falsely claimed to employ former s.t.a.l.k.e.r. developers . 3 the studio renamed itself to west games and opened a kickstarter campaign looking for us 50 000 to produce areal a spiritual successor to the s.t.a.l.k.e.r. series . 4 after reaching us 64 928 two weeks before the funding closed the campaing was suspended by kickstarter stating contract violation . 5 it was later revealed that west games acted out fraud having employed no former gsc game world staff and tried to crowdfund a now cancelled adobe flash game . 6 on 22 december 2014 gsc game world officially reopened and picked up development on a new game . 7 on 18 may 2015 gsc game world announced cossacks 3 which will be a remake of their real time strategy classic scheduled for release on 20 september 2016 . 8 contents 1 games developed 1.1 cancelled 2 references 3 external links games developed edit 2000 cossacks european wars 2001 codename outbreak 2002 cossacks the art of war 2002 cossacks back to war 2002 cossacks campaign expansion 2003 hover ace uk 2003 american conquest 2003 american conquest fight back 2003 american conquest divided nation 2003 firestarter uk 2004 alexander 2005 cossacks ii napoleonic wars 2006 cossacks ii battle for europe 2006 heroes of annihilated empires 2007 s.t.a.l.k.e.r. shadow of chernobyl 2008 s.t.a.l.k.e.r. clear sky 2009 s.t.a.l.k.e.r. call of pripyat 2016 cossacks 3 cancelled edit s.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 heroes of annihilated empires chapter 2 references edit makuch eddie 25 april 2012 . s.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 canceled . gamespot . cbs interactive . retrieved 14 august 2016 . hall charlie 8 september 2013 . stalker fallout polygon traces the exodus from kiev s legendary gsc game world . polygon . vox media . retrieved 14 august 2016 . cook dave 2 july 2014 . update s.t.a.l.k.e.r successor scandal is media fabricated dev claims . vg247 . videogaming247 . retrieved 14 august 2016 . tach dave 24 june 2014 . stalker devs working on survival horror spiritual successor areal . polygon . vox media . retrieved 14 august 2016 . mcwhertor michael 22 july 2014 . kickstarter suspends ex stalker devs areal campaign west games turns to direct funding . polygon . vox media . retrieved 14 august 2016 . pearson dan 22 december 2014 . it s a hard time for ukraine but a good time to be a proud ukrainian . gamesindustry.biz . gamer network . retrieved 14 august 2016 . hall charlie 22 december 2014 . the original developer of stalker re opens has a good laugh announces new game . polygon . vox media . retrieved 14 august 2016 . hall charlie 18 may 2015 . the company that made stalker is back with their next game cossacks 3 . polygon . vox media . retrieved 14 august 2016 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to gsc game world . official website v t e gsc game world cossacks series european wars 2000 the art of war 2002 back to war 2002 campaign expansion 2002 ii napoleonic wars 2005 ii battle for europe 2006 3 2016 american conquest series american conquest 2002 fight back 2003 divided nation 2006 s.t.a.l.k.e.r. series shadow of chernobyl 2007 clear sky 2008 call of pripyat 2009 2 cancelled other games codename outbreak 2001 hover ace 2003 firestarter 2003 alexander 2004 heroes of annihilated empires 2006 authority control worldcat identities viaf 150322445 isni 0000 0001 0945 0348 bnf cb14040569w data retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gsc game world & oldid 740345944 categories 1995 establishments in ukrainecompanies based in kievvideo game companies 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