Kotaku can suck my dick. It was and still is one of the first gaming blogs to start acting like real deal. Fuck them with a yardstick. They were one of the harbingers of the current gen gaming press decline.
I wasn't going to comment on this, but because the guy using my old nick(incognito) commented, i'd like to point out that I'm not taking sides here because my name is Paul and this shit is between ya'll
*My name is not really Paul.
FWIW, Galyonkin has been engaging his readers in the comments and said that his source has so far been 100% reliable and that he has no new information in response to the CVG dude's claim:
http://galyonkin.com/2012/07/31/stalker-2-zhiv-izdaet-bethesda/#comment-604657578