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Feb 17, 2022 · The livestream of a videogame superimposed with a banner that reads “Breaking News” and “Russia vs Ukraine war start (sic)” has triggered confusion online.
Jul 30, 2023 · In Minecraft, the immersive game owned by Microsoft, Russian players re-enacted the battle for Soledar, a city in Ukraine that Russian forces captured in January, posting a video of the...
- Horror Game from Ukraine
- Improvization Needed After Russian Invasion
- How The Extraordinary Became Ordinary
- Dark Adventure: 'Sherlock Holmes' Remake
- Sherlock Holmes in The Lovecraft Universe
Kyiv is not only the capital of Ukraine, but also the center of the Ukrainian tech industry. More than 250,000 people worked in IT and tech before the Russian invasion in February 2022, including tens of thousands in gaming and e-sports. In fact, the tech industry is booming despite the war. According to the Ukrainian Digital Ministry, nowhere in E...
But the path to the next project was not always clear. Right after the invasion, the studio closed temporarily. "When the invasion started, we decided to give people the time and all of the support that we can provide to help them either relocate or leave the country or find shelter somewhere in the west of Ukraine," Ognasyen explains. Ognasyen is ...
In the meantime, people in Kyiv have become accustomed to the state of emergency, says Oganesyan. There are no longer power cuts, but sirens still sound several times a day to warn the population of airstrikes. But many people in the capital no longer react to them. Instead of running to the shelter every time the alarm sounds, they hope that nothi...
The war has had an enormous influence on the developers and also on their horror adventure "Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened." "I don't think it's possible to separate that," says Sergey Oganesyan. "I don't think the game would have been as dark as it is right now." Game players take on the role of master detective Sherlock Holmes. Their task is to so...
Although the narrative begins in a straightforward way, it gradually veers into the fantastic. Inspired by the Cthulhu myth created by the US horror author H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the world around Sherlock Holmes becomes increasingly bizarre and terrifying. Cthulhu is described in Lovecraft as an extraterrestrial deity with a face full of tenta...
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Mar 2, 2022 · Several supposedly “live” videos featuring firepower hitting buildings and shooting planes out of the nighttime sky have been shared on Facebook in South Africa with claims that they show...
Feb 22, 2022 · As Russian forces mass along the border with Ukraine, Polygon reached out to more than a dozen teams of game developers to find out how they are coping with the situation.
Feb 28, 2022 · But the video has been shared in a false context: it shows digitally animated footage from the video game War Thunder that circulated online months before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Sep 27, 2020 · As Russia pressed on with its invasion of Ukraine, a video clip was viewed thousands of times in Facebook and YouTube posts that claimed it showed live footage of the fighting. In reality, the...
