Igår skrev vi om hur licensen till Stalker-spelen köpts upp av tyska Bit Composer. Detta stämmer inte, enligt ukrainska GSC Game World som talat med Gamasutra:
"In view of the rumors appearing in press, we find it necessary to inform that GSC Game World and Sergey Grigorovich [GSC CEO] remain to be the sole owners of all the intellectual property rights to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series and the brand overall, including all the trademarks, the game universe, the technology etc. This can be easily verified with the trademark services online," berättar man, och lägger till att såna här rykten inte är ovanliga:
"From time to time news on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. brand purchase by this or that company appear over the Internet. We relate such a keen interest in the brand to its exceptional popularity."
Bit Composer insisterar dock på att man verkligen äger licensen:
"We hold the license for PC and video games from the Strugatsky brothers. The owner of the license was the Strugatsky brothers. As far as we know, GSC never had the license for S.T.A.L.K.E.R."