SCS, the developer at the back of Euro Truck Simulator 2, has made the selection to cancel its upcoming “Heart of Russia” growth in mild of the continuing conflict in Ukraine.

On the twenty fourth of February 2022, our Heart of Russia crew become a few six to 8 weeks farfar from finishing paintings at the exceedingly predicted new DLC. We all felt without a doubt precise approximately the result; plenty of attempt were invested in making this new place appearance actually high-quality withinside the sport,” SCS shared in a weblog submit yesterday.

We have been actually positive that our community, in particular the ones in Russia, could without a doubt recognize that. Then, all of a sudden, the complete international become rocked via way of means of the information that Ukraine were invaded via way of means of Russia.

“SCS went on to mention that its intention is to make video games which might be as “apolitical as possible”, and that provide gamers a hazard to experience a few escapism from “ordinary controversies”.

However, as its DLC become at once associated with Russia and “with such a lot of human beings struggling”, SCS in the long run determined to cancel its release. SCS stated it did now no longer need its sport to be visible in any manner as “being in assist of or [tolerant] of the aggression”

SCS completed via way of means of pronouncing it “strongly believe[s] that there may be desire for the proud human beings of Ukraine to be triumphant and for the struggling to give up for all. Injustice can not and need to now no longer win. And, while the time comes for Ukraine to rebuild and heal, then we are able to endeavour to discover a manner for our Heart of Russia DLC to play some thing element it is able to in that recovery process, for everyone.

SCS formerly launched a Ukraine Paint Jobs Pack for its truck simulator, with the employer saying that one hundred percentage of those income could be donated to resource humanitarian efforts withinside the country. At the time of writing, over 85,000 gamers have bought this percent so far.