Stalker 2: Making a game in Kyiv during a Russian invasion
How the Ukranian studio between an anticipated video game kept going when Russia invaded.
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Evgeniy is a technical producer on Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, an upcoming video game developed by Kyiv-based developer GSC Game World.
It's a title fans of the original, released in 2007, have been awaiting for some time.
But it might not have happened at all, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
BBC Newsbeat spoke to Evgeniy about how Stalker 2's developers kept going, losing colleagues to war, and why the studio feels it's so important for them to complete the game.
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