The report comes from Gamemag.ru and is translated by GameGuruMania. The article is worth a read, but the basic gist is that THQ appears to be extremely annoyed by the constant delays on the project and is going for a radical overhaul of the development team in a bid to get this out the door.

"Another source claims that at the end of November THQ made a decision to stop financing the development and to conduct a thorough revision to gain control over the development process. 'We don't care what shape the game will ship in anymore,' - said one of the THQ bosses to an IGN journalist, - 'The game must ship in 2006.'"


There is also the prospect that THQ may sever ties with the devlopers, GSC, and hand the title over to another development team to finish.

"Some of the developers revealed that a few months ago THQ seeked a studio ready to finish STALKER. One of the GSC programmers said that this is very unlikely: 'The code is mostly not documented, they wouldn't understand a thing there.'"