Our latest coverage of Russia.
The last that we heard from Artificial Core was that several of their employees and their families were hunkered down in bomb shelters in Kyiv as Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital. Most of their staff, however, had already relocated to safer regions in Europe and are continuing to work on Corepunk even while the studio is in “emergency mode.” The [...]
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Trove is celebrating the coming of Spring with the return of the Bunfest Easter event. The event is now live and will run until April 19th, featuring Easter-themed activities such as searching for hidden eggs, taking on shadow bunnies in the Bunfest Delve Biome, and completing daily quests to earn seasonal rewards. The new Sunrise Spring Pack is also available [...]
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In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Wargaming limited their marketing campaigns for World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes, starting in late February and asked affiliates to do the same. They also donated $1 million to the Ukrainian Red Cross and fired World of Tanks creative director Sergey Burkatovskiy over his pro-Russian remarks on social media. [...]
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Epic Games, in partnership with Microsoft and the Fortnite community, has raised over $100 million which will go towards humanitarian relief efforts in war-torn Ukraine. The funds were raised from all the proceeds from the PC, Xbox, and mobile versions of the popular battle royale shooter since March 20th. “Epic is committing all its Fortnite proceeds from March 20, 2022 [...]
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Amazon Game Studios has blocked Russian and Belarusian players from accessing New World. Presumably, the move is in response to the IGDA’s call to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We say presumably because the studio has failed to explicitly state this, citing “technical and other restrictions” as the reason behind the IP block. “Due to technical and other restrictions, the [...]
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Bungie is the latest video game company to join the IGDA’s call to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The studio is currently working with their partners to suspend all Destiny 2 sales and microtransactions in Russia and Belarus. Players in the said regions will still be able to play the game but will not be able to purchase premium currency [...]
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