{"id":1208,"date":"2023-07-17T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2023-07-17T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T00:20:05","slug":"ea-is-halting-sales-of-games-and-content-in-russia-and-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"EA is halting sales of games and content in Russia and Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p><ins>wrote in a statement<\/ins>. &#8220;Our primary concern is the ongoing safety of those in the region, particularly colleagues and partners, and we are seeking to understand how we might best help them further beyond our programs that are already in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The publisher <ins>called on<\/ins> gaming companies and esports organizations to take action by, for instance, temporarily suspending player accounts in Russia and Belarus. CD Projekt has <ins>all sales in Russia on hold<\/ins>, including those of Xbox consoles. Meanwhile, <em><ins>Rogue Company<\/ins><\/em> developer Hi-Rez Studios is <ins>donating<\/ins> all of its March and April revenues from Russia to UNICEF to help children in Ukraine. It pledged a minimum of $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wrote in a statement. &#8220;Our primary concern is the ongoing safety of those in the region, particularly colleagues and partners, and we are seeking to understand how we might best help them further beyond our programs that are already in place.&#8221; The publisher called on gaming companies and esports organizations to take action by, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[856,495,196,200,115,1607,64,321,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}