Following Vladimir Putin’s recent statements leading to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the video game world is not remaining passive in the face of the situation. The video game industry is trying in its own way to help the Ukrainian people with this human tragedy. The 11-bit studio is the first to start the march this Friday.
The studio just announced that “all earnings are suspended for the next seven days This my war, as well as those of the DLC, in all stores and on all platforms, are kept in a special background. In a week this fund will be donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross to directly support the victims of this war in Ukraine.” An action cheered by many players and journalists.
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Team statement from 11 bit studios:#FuckTheWar#Ukraine@RedCrossUkraine @Ukraine pic.twitter.com/8u1mjte6Ar— This War of Mine (@ThisWarOfMine) February 24, 2022
The studio specifies: “As the Pole creators of the anti-war game This my war (which directly addresses the suffering and misery of the civilians who must endure this war), […] we oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”.
Another studio followed suit later that day. The creators of The Farm 51 have also announced that they will be back for a week the benefits of their game Chernobylite will be donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross. Today is the turn CD Projekt Red announces that they will donate one million złoty (Polish currency), evening around 215,000 dollars, to the Polska Akcja Humanitarna association, which helps people in need.
The world of video games is not a separate world and this kind of initiative allows our media to help the Ukrainian people in their own way.
