{"id":610351,"date":"2026-03-22T15:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/euro-truck-simulator-2-heart-of-russia-expansion-cancelled"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:43:53","slug":"euro-truck-simulator-2-heart-of-russia-expansion-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/euro-truck-simulator-2-heart-of-russia-expansion-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro Truck Simulator 2 &#8220;Heart of Russia&#8221; expansion cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/euro-truck-simulator-2-heart-of-russia-expansion-cancelled.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>SCS, the developer behind Euro Truck Simulator 2, has made the decision to cancel its upcoming &#8220;Heart of Russia&#8221; expansion in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the 24th of February 2022, our Heart of Russia team was some six to eight weeks away from completing work on the highly anticipated new DLC. We all felt really good about the result; a lot of effort had been invested in making this new region look truly fantastic in the game,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.scssoft.com\/2022\/05\/heart-of-russia-dlc-statement.html\">SCS<\/a> shared in a blog post yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were absolutely sure that our community, especially those in Russia, would really appreciate that. Then, all of a sudden, the entire world was rocked by the news that Ukraine had been invaded by Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/euro-truck-simulator-2-heart-of-russia-expansion-cancelled\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/euro-truck-simulator-2-heart-of-russia-expansion-cancelled\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCS, the developer behind Euro Truck Simulator 2, has made the decision to cancel its upcoming &#8220;Heart of Russia&#8221; expansion in light of the ongoing war in Ukraine. &#8220;On the 24th of February 2022, our Heart of Russia team was some six to eight weeks away from completing work on the highly anticipated new DLC. We all felt really good about the result; a lot of effort had been invested in making this new region look truly fantastic in the game,&#8221; SCS shared in a blog post yesterday. &#8220;We were absolutely sure that our community, especially those in Russia, would really appreciate that. Then, all of a sudden, the entire world was rocked by the news that Ukraine had been invaded by Russia.&#8221; Read more&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/euro-truck-simulator-2-heart-of-russia-expansion-cancelled\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[7671],"class_list":["post-610351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-euro-truck-simulator-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Euro Truck Simulator 2 &quot;Heart of Russia&quot; expansion cancelled | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SCS, the developer behind Euro Truck Simulator 2, has made the decision to cancel its upcoming &quot;Heart of Russia&quot; 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