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World of Warplanes developer Wargaming.net struck gold with World of Tanks. VG247′s Dave Cook speaks with producer Anton Sitnikov about repeating the phenomenon.

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Gas Powered Games has been re-branded by new owner Wargaming as Wargaming Seattle. The move has seen some released staff members rehired by the studio.

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NVIDIA has announced plans to host a World of Tanks International open tournament. It will be held in Asia Pacific, China, Europe, Russia and the Americas where the best seven-member teams will compete for with the best out of three games the winner. The tournament will last for four weeks before Grand Finals where up to $100,000 in prizes will be offered, along with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 card. At date has not been set, and you can pre-register here. Thanks, Polygon.

Wargaming has announced a eSports league for World of Tanks.

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World of Tanks developer Wargaming.net has announced its acquisition of F.E.A.R. 3 developer Day 1 Studios.

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Wargaming.net’s World of Tanks is no stranger to whopping statistics but here’s a new and impressive one.

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World of Warplanes is about shooting deadly flying machines out of the sky before your own suffers the same fate. That’s pretty bloody exciting on its own, but this trailer tries to make it look even more adrenaline-filled.

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World of Tanks’ Clan Wars mode will be integrated with Wargaming’s World of Warplanes, according to game producer Sergey Ilyshyn, and the combining of the two games is just the start.

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Wargaming has announced a new set of Japanese Imperial aircraft for its combat sim, World of Warplanes.

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Wargaming has added a new title to its line-up of popular combat titles, World of Tanks Generals.

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Wargaming has announced World of Battleships has been renamed World of Warships. The gameplay in the free-to-play naval game will stay the same, only the name has changed. The title will become part of the Wargaming.net common economic system, allowing players to distribute resources between three of the firm’s “World of” titles. It’s out next year. Thanks, Massively.

GDC Europe organizers have announced a World of Tanks developer session from Wargaming.net, and mobile a postmortem on mobile title Diamond Dash. Wargaming.net CEO Victor Kislyi will discuss in his session titled “World of Free-to-Play – Triple A by Wargaming.net,” how the F2P business model was “essential to the success” of World of Tanks, and how the model could eventually edge out boxed retail. As part of the Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit, Wooga lead product manager Christopher Parschat will reflect on how the firm brought to mobile in the session: “Postmortem: Bringing Diamond Dash to iOS.” GDC Europe takes place August 13-15 alongside gamescom in Cologne, Germany. Thanks, Gamasutra.

Check out Tier 10 medium tanks and tank destroyers, the latest additions to Wargaming’s continuously successful World of Tanks.

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Wargaming.net has released a third developer diary for World of Warplanes. It’s below. Closed beta testing for World of Warplanes started on May 31, and as of March, over 100,000 had signed up for it alpha testing. That number is likely higher now.

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Wargaming.net has announced closed beta testing for World of Warplanes will start on May 31. If you have yet to sign up for the beta, you can do so here. In March, the firm announced that over 100,000 had signed up. Players who have applied, but have not been yet accepted to Global Alpha, will have a priority for closed beta.

World of Tanks developer Wargaming.net is making a bid for the mainland Chinese market. Gamasutra reports the company has signed a deal with KongZhong Corporation to publish its range locally. Although Wargaming.net has several popular free to play titles, World of Tanks is the biggie, with up to 450,000 players online simultaneously.

Wargaming.net’s announced a donation run for several military-based US charities within World of Tanks. As part of National Military Appreciation Month, AMVETS, Homes for our Troops, the Military Families Fund and Paralyzed Veterans of America will receive 10% of proceeds given from all US-based purchases of gold packs and 75% of the T14 package.

More details here. Thanks, Massively.

World of Tanks is celebrating its first anniversary by releasing some interesting stats regarding its 24 million registered players. For instance: 350 million battles have been fought, 75 billion shells have been fired with 48 billion direct hits, over 8 billion armored vehicles have been destroyed, and at one time, the game boasted 450,000 players online at one time, breaking its previous Guinness World Record. Warhaming.net has said it has “massive expectations for the upcoming year,” and that it will “continue to drive game development that will keep our players engaged and excited.” Watch the celebratory video below. Thanks, Massively.

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Wargaming.net’s confirmed details of World of Tanks’ update 7.2 today. The latest patch includes two new maps, new tanks and 22 new perks. There’s a video of the update in action below.

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At least 25%-30% of players on World of Tanks have spent real money on in-game items for the free-to-play MMO, developer Wargaming.net has said.

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