2023年2月23日

深入了解一下苏联时代的幻想和之间的关系非常现代的俄罗斯。放大/苏联时代的俄罗斯如何看起来内部原子的心,至少在开始。Mundfish /关注乌克兰数字娱乐部门已表示,它将要求蒸汽,微软和索尼删除原子心从他们的游戏平台在乌克兰,并可能在其他地方,指着retro-Communist审美和报道“俄罗斯的根源。”As reported by the Ukrainian tech news/job site Dev.ua ( Google translation ), Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation (which also provided a statement in English to PCGamesN ) writes that Atomic Heart "has Russian roots and romanticizes communist ideology and the Soviet Union." The Ministry cites the game's "toxicity," "potential data collection of users," and use of funds from the game "to conduct a war against Ukraine." The statement asks for an outright ban on the game in Ukraine but calls on other countries to consider "limiting distribution" of the game. The Ministry also cites "media reports" regarding development funds coming from Russian enterprises and banks under sanction and "systematically important for the Russian government" (according to Google translation). "We would also like to emphasize for the Western audience that the developers of the game did not come out with a public statement condemning the Putin regime" and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Deputy Minister Oleksandr Bornyakov said in the statement. There's a lot to unpack, and some of it involves entities that are inherently difficult to pry into. Here's what has been reported so far and some insight into the game and its themes. How Russian is Atomic Heart’s developer, really? At a minimum, Atomic Heart is not entirely distanced from Russia or inactive in its highly state-influenced economy. The game is available in Russia exclusively through VK Play , an arm of the VK Group, which is run by a Vladimir Putin ally and son of a former prime minister. VK Group and VKontakte, the most popular social network in Russia, are majority owned by the media arm of energy giant Gazprom, which is majority-owned by the Russian state. Mundfish's CEO once worked as a creative director for Mail.ru , VK's original entity. Advertisement The developer, Mundfish, cites Cyprus as its international headquarters but has previously shown off its Russia-based offices in a video tour . AIN.capital, a site focused on Central and Eastern European tech news, cited Mundfish's Russian store website privacy policy in January as disclosing that user data could be transferred to Russian state authorities, including the tax office and FSB, Russia's modern state security agency. AIN.capital also cites a legal address in Russia in the policy. Mundfish denied collecting data in a response to GamesRadar , stating that its privacy statement was "outdated and wrong, and should have been removed years ago." The Russian store has seemingly been removed from Mundfish's site. An extravagant promotional party for the game was held in November 2022 for Russian press, according to Game World Observer and on-the-scene tweets . Soviet-style banners and signs read "Glory to Soviet engineers" and "Comrade, join the society of the future!" Gaming press events are not known for their subtlety or strict fidelity to a game's full narrative—in this case, Atomic Heart's over-the-top echo of mid-century Soviet propaganda is on display, not the team's beliefs or heritage. Yet holding this lavish event for a Russian audience, with Soviet-era stylings, while the country is engaged in a bloody war with Ukraine, implies a certain willingness to engage with status-quo Russia. Mundfish's investors include Tencent, the Chinese gaming giant, and GEM Capital. GEM Capital's founder, Anatoliy Paliy, formerly served as first deputy general director for a Gazprom division , and GEM is actively involved in the Russian energy market. Like Mundfish, GEM claimed to games journalist Kirk McKeand in January that it was now based in Cyprus and had no Russian investments. You can read more about the hard-to-prove but quite plausible web of connections between GEM, Gazprom, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine at PC Gamer's detailed explainer .