{"id":1053,"date":"2022-03-08T14:52:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/08\/ubisoft-and-take-two-are-also-blocking-game-sales-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T14:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:52:51","slug":"ubisoft-and-take-two-are-also-blocking-game-sales-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/08\/ubisoft-and-take-two-are-also-blocking-game-sales-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft and Take-Two are also blocking game sales in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/7\/22965890\/ubisoft-take-two-blocking-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/7\/22965890\/ubisoft-take-two-blocking-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"57.795966785291\">\n<p id=\"Y6LxNl\">Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive are suspending game sales in Russia in light of its invasion of Ukraine, joining a growing list of companies that have decided to cut ties with the country (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ubisoft-take-two-russia-belarus-boycott-ukraine-165021624.html\"><em>Engadget<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p id=\"sddS3S\">In an updated <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ubisoft.com\/en-us\/article\/2dkkIG51BCP24JwGGvDry9\/how-ubisoft-is-supporting-our-teams-and-the-people-of-ukraine\">post on its blog<\/a>, Ubisoft announced its decision to pause sales in Russia, citing the \u201congoing tragedy in Ukraine.\u201d The blog post itself doesn\u2019t go into detail about the ban, but a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-07\/ubisoft-stopping-sales-in-russia-following-major-rivals\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a> indicates it includes both physical and digital game sales.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"GBpNau\"><q>Take-Two\u2019s ban includes new game sales and installations<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"ciNYcT\">Take-Two has also decided to temporarily block new game sales and installations in both Russia and Belarus. The ban applies to all of Take-Two\u2019s subsidiaries, including 2K Games and Rockstar, the developer behind the <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em> series. The news comes just about a week before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/newswire\/article\/172872k8a375k8\/gtav-and-gta-online-coming-march-15-for-playstation-5-and-xbox-series\"><em>GTA Online<\/em> and <em>GTA V<\/em> arrive on next-gen consoles<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"SLn9Gz\">\u201cWe have watched recent events unfold in Ukraine with concern and sadness,\u201d Alan Lewis, Take-Two\u2019s vice president of corporate communications and public affairs, said in a statement to <em>The Verge<\/em>. \u201cAfter significant consideration, last week, we decided to stop new sales, installations, and marketing support across all our labels in Russia and Belarus at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"1tIGiI\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/2\/22958329\/ea-sports-fifa-nhl-russia\">EA Games removed Russian and Belarusian teams<\/a> from its FIFA and NHL games and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/4\/22961673\/ea-halting-sales-games-content-currency-russia-belarus\">later halted sales of its games and virtual currencies<\/a> completely. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/5\/22963195\/activision-blizzard-halts-new-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion\">Activision Blizzard also suspended<\/a> new sales \u201cof and in\u201d its games on Friday, while Epic Games followed suit just a day later. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/3\/22959975\/cd-projekt-red-gog-cuts-off-sales-russia-belarus-mykhailo-fedorov\"><em>Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> developer CD Projekt Red<\/a> announced last week that it\u2019s cutting Russia off from both digital and physical game sales as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/7\/22965890\/ubisoft-take-two-blocking-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/7\/22965890\/ubisoft-take-two-blocking-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive are suspending game sales in Russia in light of its invasion of Ukraine, joining a growing list of companies that have decided to cut ties with the country (via Engadget). In an updated post on its blog, Ubisoft announced its decision to pause sales in Russia, citing the \u201congoing tragedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-technology","tag-gaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ubisoft and Take-Two are also blocking game sales in Russia - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/08\/ubisoft-and-take-two-are-also-blocking-game-sales-in-russia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ubisoft and Take-Two are also blocking game sales in Russia - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Ubisoft and Take-Two Interactive are suspending game sales in Russia in light of its invasion of Ukraine, joining a growing list of companies that have decided to cut ties with the country (via Engadget). 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