ukraine
Wargaming launches multiple charitable bundles for its slate of titles to benefit Ukraine
The country of Ukraine continues to defend itself from the ongoing Russian invasion, which naturally means that aid is still needed for the Ukrainian...
World of Warcraft’s charity pets for Ukraine raise more than $1.5 million
It's really easy to have a pretty negative opinion of Activision Blizzard these days, since the company regularly makes sure of that. But its...
Indie time-travel MMO Into the Echo releases interactive lore website experience
If you've forgotten all about time-travel MMO Into the Echo, we'll totally forgive you because we had too. And that's because we haven't heard...
World of Warcraft introduces new charity pets to support BlueCheck Ukraine
If you want to support Ukraine in its continued crisis defending itself against a Russian invasion that has done immense damage to the country,...
War Thunder welcomes Minecraft to the ‘gaming playerbases leaking military secrets’ club
Over the last half week, the intelligence community has been reeling over a serious leak of military documents that apparently were promulgated through a...
Ukraine-based STALKER 2 dev studio has been hacked and blackmailed by a pro-Russian group
We haven't been tracking the development trajectory of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl very closely, particularly since it's projecting a December 2023 launch with...
MY.GAMES says it will ‘exit the Russian market’ and offload Russian licenses
Back in October, Mail.ru sold its MMO subsidiary MY.GAMES to Aleksander Chachava of venture capital firm LETA Capital, for $642 million. The company's MMOs...
Russian security forces apparently killed STALKER larpers they thought were real terrorists
This story's pretty distressing, so we gotta warn you up front: Some S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl superfans were apparently killed by Russian security forces...
Russian soldier captured by Ukrainian forces claims he joined the army to pay off a World of Tanks-related debt
Friends, this story is definitely unique, but we're going to try to condense this as best as we can. Making the rounds today is...
Roblox removes games depicting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but only after a BBC inquiry
There are plenty of shooter games out there in the discovery page of Roblox, but some creators of these kinds of games saw fit...
Wargaming opens new offices in Europe after Russia exodus
With the war in the Ukraine stretching on into the summer months, it might be more difficult to remember how much various game studios...
Whatever happened to the oft-delayed Corepunk? It’s suspended Russian region support
When last we checked in on Artificial Core and its upcoming MMO Corepunk, the Amsterdam- and Kyiv-based studio admitted that it was hunkered down...
Elteria Adventures continues development in spite of half the team ‘hiding in bombshelters’ in Ukraine
It's been almost a year since we poked our noses into multiplayer voxelbox Elteria Adventures, which readers will recall evoked Landmark with its release...
Russian Dota 2 esports player gets his team banned and his contract ended over support for Ukrainian invasion
The gaming world has caught on to the symbolism of the letter Z already, so one has to wonder what was going through the...
From the Depths: Everything we know about Wargaming’s exit from Russia
Mixing gaming and politics is rough. Think back to the Blitzchung fiasco for Blizzard back in 2019. Or when Daybreak was (and then wasn’t)...
Daybreak’s EG7 intends to sell Innova subsidiary and relocate Toadman Interactive studio in a pull-out from Russia
Enad Global 7, the Swedish company that readers will recall bought up all of Daybreak Games in 2020, is apparently looking to cut ties...
Trove kicks off this year’s Bunfest Easter event and releases a bundle to benefit Ukraine
Spring has sprung in Trove, which incidentally brings the springing of hopping bunnies! It's time once more for Bunfest, the Easter event that's available...
Overwatch alters one of Zarya’s legendary skins to avoid any possible association with the Russian invasion of Ukraine
One of Zarya's legendary skins in Overwatch has received an unannounced but very important change with the game's recent patch: The skin no longer has...
Massively Uplifting: How gamers are bringing humanitarian relief to Ukraine
It was a month that started in love but ended with war: Terrible, painful things keep happening in the world and in our communities....
Wargaming will suffer ‘substantial losses’ in corporate exit from Russia and Belarus
Over a month ago, at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, MMO studio Wargaming was already making a bold statement about the burgeoning...
