“Attempts to blackmail or intimidate us are completely futile”

GSC Game World, the Ukrainian devs working onS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chernobyl, have claimed that one of their employees has been hacked by a “community from a Russian social network” and the studio threatened with blackmail.

Announced via Twitter, GSC said that a “collective work-with-images application” was hacked and the information then used for “blackmail and intimidation”. GSC then urged that anyone who comes across leaked information doesn’t start sharing it across the web, as it would “dilute the impression of the final idea” that they’ve put into the game. Hear hear.

A message from GSC Game World teampic.twitter.com/rqRM0tFZmO

The game will be out sometime this year, and you can find it onSteamand theEpic Games Storefor £50/$60/€60.