Ukraine's Digital Ministry has said it will ask Steam, Microsoft, and Sony to remove Atomic Heart from their gaming platforms in Ukraine, and possibly elsewhere, pointing to its retro-Communist aesthetic and reported "Russian roots."
Information warfare is nothing new. Propaganda planted in newspaper stories, editorial cartoons, movies, pamphlets — sometimes dropped from airplanes — are just a few techniques dating back a century or more. But in the digital age, the battlefield has expanded into phishing, social media, destructive hacking, and even games. It's planned by combatants, it's planned for, and it's everywhere.
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