Creator / GSC Game World

Transavision Ltd., better known by its business name GSC Game World, is one of the most prominent video game studios in Ukraine, formerly based in Kyiv. Founded in 1995 by Hryhorovych Serhiy, it is best known for the Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.

The company was dissolved on January 2011 due to the Development Hell of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, but would later reopen its offices on January 22, 2018. They released Cossacks 3 and resumed working on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, until the full scale military invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022 put it on hold. Development resumed in June of that year, with GSC temporarily relocating their main workforce to the Czech Republic, with some staff remaining in Ukraine to serve in the military. Developer Volodymyr Yezhov, was confirmed to have been killed in battle in December 2022.

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Video games developed by this company:

• Warcraft 2000 (1998) ^note A mockbuster game they made without paying a single copiyka (Ukranian equivalent of cent) to Blizzard Entertainment.
• Cossacks:
  • Cossacks: European Wars (2000)
    • Cossacks: The Art of War (2001)
    • Cossacks: Back to War (2002)
  • Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars (2005)
    • Cossacks II: Battle for Europe (2006)
  • Cossacks 3 (2016)
• Hover Ace (2003)
• American Conquest (2003)
  • American Conquest: Fight Back (2003)
  • American Conquest: Divided Nation (2003)
• FireStarter (2003)
• Alexander (2004) ^note Tie-in RTS game for the film
• Heroes of Annihilated Empires (2006)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007)
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (2008)
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat (2009)
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024) ^note Formerly known as "Heart of Chernobyl"; the title was altered to use the Ukranian name due to the mass scale 2022 Russian invasion reducing the use of Russian language in the country.

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