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YouTube bans links to the Come Back Alive Foundation, which helps the army of Ukraine

YouTube has started removing links to the Come Back Alive Foundation that provides support to service members in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as several Ukrainian video bloggers report. The platform’s explanation sounds quite strange: violation of sex and nudity

Red Cross published rules for hacktivists. They responded by hacking its Russian website

Not long ago, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) published a “code of conduct” for hackers during wars. Given the dubious reputation of this organization in Ukraine, Ukrainian hackers protested the notion by defacing the Russian website of

Developers of Cyberpunk 2077 apologized to the Russians for inaccuracies in the Ukrainian localization

In September 2023, one of the most famous RPG games of the decade, Cyberpunk 2077, finally received a Ukrainian localization. But now the Ukrainian gaming community is outraged by the fact that the developers of the game, the Polish studio

Wargaming lost $250M from exiting the Russia and Belarus: interview with company’s CFO

In April 2022, Wargaming announced that it was leaving the Russian and Belarusian markets. The editor of AIN.Capital asked the CFO of the company Andrew Tinney about the reasons and consequences of this decision, as well as about what is

In 2022, Elon Musk deliberately shut down Starlink to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol

In 2022, Elon Musk deliberately ordered the shutdown of Starlink satellite communications near the Crimean coast to disrupt Ukraine’s attack on the Russian navy in Sevastopol. According to CNN, citing an unreleased biography of Musk written by American journalist and

China supplies 67% of critical components for making UAVs to Russia

The main supplier of critical components for Russian UAVs production is China, which accounts for 67%, with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates accounting for another 7%. This conclusion was reached by an International Task Force working on sanctions against

Atomic Heart’s backer GEM Capital to invest $45M in CEE. It is a Russian fund founded by ex-Gazprom

GEM Capital, a Cyprus-based investment firm, has just announced its plans to invest $45 million into gamedev across the CEE region. As AIN.Capital learned, it is a Russian fund founded by Anatoly Paliy, who previously worked at Gazprom, a state-owned

Russia spreads war propaganda in Minecraft, Roblox, World of Tanks, and other video games

.@molfar_agency identified more than a dozen instances of pro-Kremlin propaganda in Minecraft, Roblox, World of Tanks, World of Warships, Fly Corp, Armored Warfare, War Thunder, and others.

Blizzard collects money for Ukraine by selling Pet Pack for World of Warcraft

Blizzard has started to sell a special Pet Pack for their game World of Warcraft, which includes two pets. As reported by the company, all money (excluding taxes and other mandatory fees) from the sale of this pack will be