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Russia Wants Its Own Call of Duty and Is Ready to Spend Millions to Get It
Call of Duty, created by Activision Blizzard, is one of the most popular first-person shooter franchises in the world. However, its latest release, Black Ops 7, did not perform as well as expected and is being considered a disappointment by the franchise’s usual standards. The series has always drawn inspiration…
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Sony Officially Ends All Operations in Russia, From PlayStation to Pictures Entertainment
Sony has officially closed its Russian division, shutting down the local subsidiary Sony Mobile Communications Rus. This took place on August 11. The Japanese company had operated in Russia since 2006. However, in February 2022 — after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — Sony announced its decision to end operations in…
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Hacking Group Anonymous Claim They Were Responsible for Moscow Traffic Chaos!
Although I presume most of you probably know who Anonymous is, for those of you who don’t, they undoubtedly represent one of the biggest hacking organisations on the planet. While their actions mostly tend to generally err in the somewhat grey area of morality, when they do create an incident,…
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Russia Considers Funding a New State-Backed Home-Grown Game Engine!
Following the outbreak of war in Ukraine earlier this year, Russia has certainly started to feel the metaphorical pinch as tech companies around the world have (mostly) united to remove support for their various products as a sign of protest against the invasion. One such aspect of this is game…
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Russian Warehouse Workers Steal GPUs Worth $38,000!
Following confirmation that AMD, Intel, and Nvidia had all ceased product shipments to Russia following their invasion of Ukraine, while GPU supplies around the world still sadly remain pretty low, things within the former Soviet Socialist Republic are undoubtedly a lot worse! – With various reports confirming that pretty much…
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German Government Advises Companies to Stop Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus
With the ongoing situation between Russia and Ukraine, international attention has clearly been focused on the conflict and especially so in the tech world with various limitations and suspensions going in both directions. Following a report via BleepingComputer, however, the German Government has just issued a rather stark and certainly…
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Russia May Be Changing Laws to Legalise Software Piracy!
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, in terms of the tech world the news has been pretty much dominated with companies effectively announcing that they were either suspending support or hardware supplies to the country until, basically, the war comes to a peaceful end. I’d list off the…
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Ukraine Calls for Microsoft and Sony to Withdraw Support From Russia
A significant portion of the technology community has already come forward in support of Ukraine following their invasion by Russian forces last week. Although their methods have varied, the bottom line is that a pretty big number of major companies has either withdrawn stock intended for shipment to Russia or,…
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AMD, Intel, TSMC, and More Suspend Tech Supplies/Support to Russia!
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, rather than choosing to escalate the situation through the direct deployment of armed forces, most Western countries have instead chosen the economic sanctions path in order to attempt to bring some sanity back to the situation. Primarily driven by America, Europe, and Asia,…
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Bitcoin Donors Send Over $13.7M to Ukraine! – But Scams Also Appear!
Following Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine last week, the situation in the region has clearly been more than a little distressing. Admittedly, it’s significantly more so for the people actually living there, but the international community is generally appalled at what they mostly view as an unprovoked act of…
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Hacking Group Anonymous Declares ‘Cyber Warfare’ on Russia
We at eTeknix are, first and foremost, a technology publication. We tend to avoid, whenever possible, giving our opinions on political issues unless they are directly relevant to what we know and love (PC hardware!). – It is, however, hard to ignore the fact that with the current situation between…
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Russia Starts Making its Own AMD B450 Motherboards
It’s hard to deny that over the last 15 years, there has been a significant worsening of diplomatic relations between the ‘West’ and Russia. While the military superiority question would undoubtedly be a contentious subject, however, I think it would at least be fair to say that in terms of…
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Sony Says “No Russian” to Store Release of Modern Warfare
With the release of Call of Duty Modern Warfare literally just a couple days away (depending on where you are in the world) it is, without a doubt, looking to be one of the most exciting releases in the franchise in recent memory. Will be it the return to form…
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Russian Official Calls Metal Gear a ‘USA Intelligence Project’
Metal Gear?! It’s hard to argue that in terms of gaming fun, the Metal Gear franchise is up there with the best of them. Well, perhaps not Survive, but let’s just pretend that one didn’t happen! While the gameplay mechanics are generally pretty straight forward, the games plot elements are…
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America Sends A Tesla Into Space – So Russia Sends A Lada
Russia Sends A Lada Into Space You may recall last year how Elon Musk pretty much amazed us all by successfully launching a Tesla car into space. As more of a PR exercise for his SpaceX program, it was still an amazing sight and at last indications, the car had…
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