05.04.23 Pop Science Games Ukrainian develops city-building strategy game Ostriv by himself. What it’s about Ostriv is a city-building strategy game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th-century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities (the recent update Alpha 5 added rowhouses). The Ostriv game has been developed since 2014.
05.04.23 Countries Ukraine Ukrainian startups received over $6B in revenue in 2022 — Google In 2022, despite the war, Ukrainian startups received over $6 billion in revenue — this is $542 million more than in 2021. Moreover, since 2020, their value has tripled. The data were published by Google as part of the Google
03.04.23 Tech1 War in Ukraine Twitter downgrades tweets about Russian invasion of Ukraine On March 31, Twitter revealed the code of its algorithm that generates a feed of recommended posts. Researchers began to study it and found out that tweets related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are marked as disinformation and got
16.03.23 Tech1 War in Ukraine Nasdaq and NYSE delisted Russian companies, including Yandex The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq announced that they will forcibly delist five Russian companies: Yandex, TsIAN, Ozon, Qiwi, and HeadHunter. As Nasdaq reports, Yandex has already announced that it will file an appeal against this decision. However,
15.03.23 Pop Science Games Russians leaked 15 GB of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, as GSC Game World did not give in to blackmail Russian “gamers” who blackmailed the Ukrainian studio GSC Game World and demanded an apology and Russian localization in response to the company’s principled position did, in fact, publish 15 GB of leaked content. There are various design documents, art books,
10.02.23 News Cyren cuts up to 30 Ukrainian professionals with no pay for 40 days On February 1, the tech company Cyren announced that it was laying off a significant number of employees and was considering the scenario of complete liquidation. According to DOU, the company did not give the Ukrainian team advance notice of
07.02.23 Countries Poland Ukrainian media service MEGOGO enters Polish market MEGOGO is opening a new office in Poland. It will also significantly expand the catalog of Polish content. As the company reported, Poland will become the fourteenth market where the Ukrainian company will provide its services. Details about the Polish
30.12.22 Tech1 War in Ukraine Escape from Tarkov’s developers showed the middle finger to the stylized soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces The developers of Escape from Tarkov, the Russian studio Battlestate Games, have published several new screenshots of the game. As Artem Lys noticed, on one of them the character shows the middle finger to the player in pixel uniform and
27.12.22 Tech1 Startups 12% of Ukrainian startups stopped operations since the war started — research 64% of startups still operating in Ukraine base their business on the global market. While 12% of the surveyed companies stopped their operations after the Russian invasion. This is revealed in the research conducted by the Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge team in partnership
26.12.22 Tech1 War in Ukraine S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer Volodymyr Yezhov died near Bakhmut defending Ukraine Ukrainian game developer Volodymyr Yezhov passed, while defending Ukraine from the Russian invaders, his brother Vyacheslav Yezhov told the news on Facebook. According to BBC, Volodymyr was a game designer at the studio GSC Game World. He also became the prototype for the