Roskomnadzor has blocked the website of GSC Game World, the developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Kozaky, in Russia.
This was reported by the Roskomsvoboda project.
The reason for the blockade is the demand of the Russian prosecutor's office from 24 February. Probably, the petition was opened due to the company's appeal, published on the main page of the site. In it, GSC Game World says that Russia has declared war on Ukraine and asks to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Based on this demand, dozens of websites were blocked in Russia, including the conditionally opposition media.
According to Roskomsvoboda, access to the gsc-game.com website has been restricted since 16 March.
GSC Game World is a Ukrainian company headquartered in Kyiv. After Russia launched a full-scale war in Ukraine, the company said it would stop selling its products to users in the aggressor country.
Earlier in the debut trailer for the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 encrypted excerpts from Taras Shevchenko's poem "Kateryna" were found. The first official video was presented by GSC Game World on the Xbox Game Showcase. There were no game episodes, but only the atmospheric locations of the Zone, so gamers began to look for details in each scene.
So, at the end of the video, the scene shows a flask called "Yellow-11", where a small print excerpt from the poem "Kateryna" is written:
Young Katerina did not heed
Her parent’s warning words,
She fell in love with all her heart,
Forgetting all the world.
The orchard was their trysting-place;
She went there in the night
To meet her handsome Muscovite,
And thus she ruined her life.
(translated by John Weir)
The passage is located at the bottom of the flask. To read it, one had to turn over and reflect the image.
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