What that you must know
- To rejoice the thirtieth World Press Freedom Day, a Finnish newspaper collaborated with CS:GO builders to cover a room inside the recreation revealing particulars concerning the battle in Ukraine to Russian gamers.
- The map, named de_voyna, means battle in Russian and incorporates a hidden crimson room with real-world pictures, maps and details about the atrocities dedicated by Russia and its mercenaries.
- The map incorporates clues to guide gamers to room, comparable to a burning automobile, a lamp and a Slavic-inspired constructing.
Helsingin Sanomat, an enormous subscription newspaper within the Nordic international locations is famend for its hard-hitting journalism and talent to visually symbolize topics in new and interesting methods with their readers, however no one anticipated them to collaborate with one of the performed video games on Steam for World Press Day to make such a press release towards the battle in Ukraine.
Helsingin Sanomat’s protection of Russia’s battle and illegal occupation of Ukraine has been vital and tirelessly inventive in its strategies, together with dedicating an internet site to exposing Russian propaganda, however they’ve since taken {that a} step additional by inserting a map into Counter-Strike: Global Offense to disclose the reality to gamers.
To rejoice World Press Freedom Day, the map named ‘de_voyna’ which implies battle in Russian, seems regular at first look, however is affected by clues for gamers to observe to an underground secret. One explicit clue, as reported by PC Gamer, is a burning automobile to resemble the everlasting flame monument, a standard image of World War 2 in Russia. There’s additionally a Slavic-inspired constructing with an indication stating ‘voyna’ for gamers to search out which leads them nearer to the bunker stuffed with hidden info.
Players who discover the underground room will uncover info that immediately contradicts Russian propoganda and reveals gamers the truth of the Ukraine invasion by way of numerous photos and information protection. When requested concerning the thought to collaborate with CS:GO, Helsingin Sanomat’s Editor-in-Chief Antero Mukka mentioned that Russia didn’t think about video games as a supply of journalistic content material, due to this fact getting info to Russian gamers by way of this implies could be ignored by the Russian Government. “Counter-Strike has remained as one of many uncommon channels that permits us to speak impartial info to Russians about actual occasions from the battle.”
The partitions within the room are plastered with info, all the things from the Bucha bloodbath to statistics on what number of Russian lives have been misplaced within the battle towards Ukraine, a determine performed down massively by the Russian media. Maps present civilian targets hit within the raids, and a Russian talking narrator provides extra context to every of the items of proof because the participant hovers over.
If you are taken with seeing extra of the challenge, Helsingin Sanomat has printed a full visible information to their work on the de_voyna map right here. Go with truthful warning, there are photos and tales of the battle which can be uncomfortable studying.
Russia at present has its residents banned from social media like Instagram and Twitter, and entry to Western journalistic media, even the BBC. Whether this insertion of a grim however informative easter egg into CS:GO really reaches a big quantity of Russian gamers remains to be unsure, however we commend Helsingin Sanomat and its employees for the continued effort to get the reality out in probably the most sudden of locations.
