Activision Blizzard suspends game gross sales in Russia whereas elevating funds to assist Ukraine

Yesterday, President and COO Daniel Alegre of Activision Blizzard launched a press release in assist of the Ukrainian folks. He made it very clear that the corporate is dedicated to serving to these impacted by the violence and that they need to assist in any approach that they will. In gentle of this, it was additionally said that Activision Blizzard might be suspending new gross sales of their video games in Russia whereas the battle continues.

Activision Blizzard will not be the primary gaming firm to instantly goal Russia. Earlier this week, EA introduced it could additionally droop gross sales within the nation, amongst a number of others together with Microsoft and CD Projekt Red. Other corporations halted localization for his or her video games in Russia and even flat out eliminated Russian groups from their video games.

In addition to suspension of gross sales in Russia, Activision Blizzard workers have raised over $300,000 in donations to supply speedy aid to Ukraine, with the assistance of the corporate matching worker donations 2:1. They plan so as to add extra charities to select from subsequent week whereas elevating the corporate matching restrict from $1,000 to $10,000. Other main gaming corporations have provided assist to the Ukrainian folks, together with the Pokemon Company.

Daniel additionally thanked Activision Blizzard colleagues in Poland who’ve been volunteering their time to help Ukrainian refugees and others in want.