Niantic also stepped up, restricting access to Pokémon Go in Russia as a sign that the firm was ‘standing with the global community in hoping for peace and a rapid resolution to the violence and suffering in Ukraine.’ Later in the year, some developers closed their offices in Russia – such as Ubisoft – and withdrew completely from the nation. In March 2022, Sony and Microsoft suspended hardware and software sales in the region, and the likes of Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Ubisoft all halted sales. Since February 2022 and the beginning of Russia’s invasion, dozens of gaming companies – including some of the biggest tech titans on Earth – have pulled out of the country. Now, it has been revealed that Nintendo is shutting down those eShop operations entirely, taking the store offline in Russia ‘for the foreseeable future.’ This means that players in Russia will not be able to download any new games or make purchases on the eShop, but they’ll still be able to access old, already-purchased games. In the weeks that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, countless gaming organisations and brands pulled out of Russia, and Nintendo acted by cutting off any new shipments to the country and ‘putting the eShop services under maintenance’. Since May 31st, Nintendo’s eShop has ceased to operate in Russia, following more than a year of the platform being in ‘maintenance’ mode.

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