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When danger sprang from the screen to real life, a Ukrainian game studio battled back

Date: 06-Nov-2024

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Source: https://news.microsoft.com/

When danger sprang from the screen to real life, a Ukrainian game studio battled back

They’d been on edge for months. As winter wore on and Russian troops amassed on Ukraine’s border, they prepared a fleet of well-stocked buses, whose drivers stood by around the clock just outside the company’s headquarters. 

When the troops invaded on Feb. 24, 2022, it was 4 a.m.. In that eerie dawn, GSC Game World had already activated their emergency plan to relocate their employees and their families to a small town near the Ukrainian border. 

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