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Stalking through Chernobyl

A cloud of radioactive material settled over Ukraine and Belarus after a critical failure blew apart a Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station reactor in 1986. The resulting death toll had exceeded 4,000. Twenty years later, we got our first view of Stalker at an Nvidia conference where they showed some clips of it. It was amazing than with debris, bits of ...

Jon Peddie

A cloud of radioactive material settled over Ukraine and Belarus after a critical failure blew apart a Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station reactor in 1986. The resulting death toll had exceeded 4,000. Twenty years later, we got our first view of Stalker at an Nvidia conference where they showed some clips of it. It was amazing than with debris, bits of grass that moved, caustics, dust, and a shabby worn and abandoned look about the buildings and equipment—it was shockingly realistic and ran on an ATi Radeon R520 or an Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX. Those AIBs were breakthrough in the PC
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