The Ultimate Beneficiary of STALKER 2 Developer GSC Game World Changes Ownership

GSC Game World reported that they have been cooperating with Maxim Krippa for several years.

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The fact that the ultimate beneficiary of the GSC Game World studio had changed on November 15, 2023 was reported by Ukrainian media, including the local branch of Forbes, with reference to state registers. Among others, this was noticed by DTF users.

What became known from the registers

The ultimate beneficiary of the GSC Game World studio has changed in the Ukrainian and Czech commercial registers. It was Max Krippa, owner of the NAVI esports team and investor in the Maincast esports broadcast studio. The founder of GSC Game World, Sergei Grigorovich, was removed from the registers on September 22, 2023. As a result, the sole owner of the Ukrainian legal entity GSC UKRAINE LLC is GSC GAME WORLD GLOBAL LTD, registered in Cyprus. GSK Ukraine LLC was registered on March 8, 2023. The authorized capital of the company is 100 thousand hryvnia. Its leader is Ekaterina Vladimirovna Tkachenko.

At the time of writing, Crippa had not commented on the changes to local media. Crippa has also been associated with online casinos and betting. In one of the articles that appeared online in 2023, the entrepreneur was called “a partner of a Russian oligarch.” However, it is worth noting that this material appeared on the BlackBox website, which did not have any other articles. At the time of writing, this resource was not available – the site did not load.

What GSC Game World said

A few hours after major media reported the change of owner of GSC Game World, the studio commented on the situation to the Ukrainian publication ITC.

GSC confirmed that Krippa is a co-owner and one of the company’s investors, noting that cooperation with him began in 2020. Details of the deal have only now become known as a result of updating state registers as part of a non-public investment agreement.

One of our investors and co-owner is Maxim Krippa, who has a large number of different businesses, but casinos and betting are not among them, there are IT companies, IT startups, large and small, there are e-sports areas, including the most famous – This is the NAVI esports team and the Maincast broadcaster, there are areas of activity in real estate and development.

But I note that our cooperation began at the beginning of 2020, that is, we have not made any big changes, and we will continue to develop games that, we hope, we can be proud of. Right now, due to the structure of the deal, the details of which are under NDA, it has become public.

Maxim Tkachenko, community manager of GSC Game World

GSC Game World also emphasized that Sergei and Evgeniy Grigorovich remain the company’s leaders.

The Grigorovichs are still our leaders. Evgeniy is the CEO of the company. In this regard, everything is as it was. All investors allow us to choose what we will do, how and why, it has always been this way, for which we are very grateful for their trust.

But, of course, this is an expensive business and for development we need help to really grow and reach a completely different level in quality, to develop more different games and IP (no public details yet, but it will be interesting, that’s for sure).

Maxim Tkachenko, community manager of GSC Game World

Earlier, the STALKER 2 development roadmap leaked online. According to it, the game will be released in February 2024.

Leak: STALKER 2 development roadmap – according to it, the game will be released in February 2024 Editorial articles

This information matches the officially announced release window.