GSC assures it's "working full throttle on completing the game" in response to recent reports of doom and gloom

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer GSC Game World has rubbished recent internet reports suggesting its ambitious PC project is in serious trouble, describing them to us this afternoon as "nothing but a hoax".
In a nutshell, the reports stated that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was still a considerable way off from the finish line and that the game's publisher, THQ, had pulled funding with a view to assuming control of development of the title - potentially placing it into the hands of another studio for completion. Additionally, it was suggested that certain members of GSC's S.T.A.L.K.E.R. development team had been moved to another project while others had been laid off.

However, GSC Game World has now dismissed the reports. "What you're talking about is a completely unjustified rumour which appeared on the net just recently," the developer's senior PR manager Oleg V. Yavorsky told us when queried on this latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 'news'. Saying that his entire morning's been spent "clarifying the situation to [the] public today", he added "...the whole buzz is nothing but a hoax."
Yavorsky also assured us that GSC is "working full throttle on completing the game".

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is one of the most heavily anticipated survival FPS/RPG for PC which casts you as a bounty hunter scavenging the deserted wasteland around the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power station as you battle other opportunists and the radiation-streaked mutants roaming the land. It's expected to release toward the end of 2006.

SOURCE - CVG