In 2010, Wargaming opened a portal to this strange world in which there are tanks, and only tanks (Who refuels the tanks? Do they refuel each other? How do they pour the jerry cans with their single, static limbs?). But the company had been knocking about for a good decade or so before then, building games with words like ‘MASSIVE’, ‘WAR’ and ‘ASSAULT’ in their nondescript titles. To celebrate their latest anniversary, they’re going to hold an international tournament.
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You know what’s wrong with society today? You might cite perpetual economic recession or fecklessness, but it’s neither of those (I'll level with you: I don't know what that last one is). It’s that there simply aren’t nearly enough good excuses to talk about tanks. That’s why Wargaming.net have poured £80,000 into a new education centre at Europe’s biggest tank museum in Bovington, England.
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Wargaming.net reported at the weekend that World of Tanks passwords had been hacked, and some personal (though not financial) information compromised. Oh no! But it seems that the looming threat of a stolen identity isn’t enough any more - so much so that the developers have organised a Change Your Password Event to entice players into doing just that.
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World of Tanks 8.5 has been in public testing for the best part of a month, during which time players have been privy to a slew of new light and medium tanks for Soviet and German force still warm from the production line. By the end of the week, those updates will have been applied to the game proper* - alongside a shop tweak that renders the game just a touch more free-to-play.
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Wargaming have discovered a security leak within their account database that could mean their users account passwords have been compromised. The publisher has advised that everyone change their password and, if you use the same password for any other pages, that you change those, too.
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Developer Wargaming have pried open the doors to their World of Tanks test server once again, and this time players have the chance to beta test version 8.5 before it sees general release. Among other things, version 8.5 features a host of new light tanks and a new map called Pearl River.
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World of Tanks creators Wargaming.net have today announced an iOS and Android-based spinoff, built from the ground up for mobile devices but “inspired” by its PC parent game.
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Known mainly for its armoured battle-beasts,World of Tanks is also a record breaker. Though, it’s not for something quite so exciting as most hot dogs eaten in 3 minutes (only six) or smallest living horse (44.5cm). Instead, World of Tanks holds the record for Most Players Online Simultaneously on one MMO Server.
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Gravity’s harsh laws restrict us from leaping from tree to distant tree, leaving for work via a deft drop from the eighth floor window, or easily throwing washing machines around in the garden for sport, but it consider the meek tank destroyer: usually the poor creature cannot even lift one tread higher than the other, so bound to earth is it by mean old gravity.
That’s not the case in Wargaming’s latest trailer.
A trailer that also shows off the newly overhauled maps, ten new tank destroyers, and the good time the two can have together.
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We learned earlier this month that the next iteration of World of Tanks, the 8.4 update, would bring a cavalcade of new tank destroyers and a bunch of newly updated maps but now you can actually play around with the new update. And you can do it all before the update actually launches too. This is because Wargaming.net have decided to load the update to their public test server to see what the world thinks of their work.
Below are the details of what you could be playing with and how to get involved.Read and Comment
For one day only, World of Tanks is offering a promotional code that will give every player a premium account for 24 hours, entitling them to earn 50% more XP and credits every time they take to the battlefield. The code will work for both both the European and stateside servers and if you don't want to use it right now (perhaps you'd rather wait for the weekend?) then don't worry, the code expires on March 1st.
That's not all that Wargaming are
doing to celebrate Kissing Day. Click through for both the code and also the lowdown on all the other Valentine's Day specials.Read and Comment
It’s
been some time coming, but World of Tanks will finally have its own
pro-gaming league, with developer Wargaming presenting a $2.5m prize
pool for the debut season, scheduled to begin in the first quarter of
2013. Since we’re already mid-way through February, that means some time
in the next six weeks. The league will consist of regular regional
tournaments and playoffs, climaxing in an end-of-season grand final.
Wargaming,
who have separate World of Tanks servers for Europe, North America,
China, Russia, Vietnam, South Korea and southeast Asia, want to bring an
international flavour to the league and “bridge the gap between World
of Tanks' gaming communities, previously separated by geographic
boundaries,” according to a statement on their North American site. Well, really they’ve been separated by Wargaming’s own server segregation.Read and Comment
This Sunday may well find you much like the writers of PCGamesN, burnt out, tired, and feeling the effects of 5AM clubbing. Having not crawled out of bed till well past 12, there is no question of being a productive worker. Instead the only form of activity our wasted bodies can manage is to spend many long hours in front of a computer game or two. These are the ones we've chosen, join us in their rejuvenating qualities.Read and Comment
We’ve managed to prise the lid off a tub marked ‘8.4’ we found in Wargaming’s larder and spoon out the chilled scoops contained within. There are new tank destroyers in both British and Soviet flavours, light tanks that taste unmistakably German, and visual and rendering overhauls for four of World of Tanks’ maps. I can’t think of a good dessert metaphor for the latter. Sorry.Read and Comment
Over the last few months you may well have noticed that I've posted regular updates on the various World of Tanks purchase deals that float around (here's the latest, for example). I've tried to work out which stretch your money the furthest and which (if any) are worth getting. I've also advised players to never, ever buy in-game credits with your cash, because you will earn it as you play anyway. You should be paying for things you can't otherwise get.
Well, I'm delighted to discover that the author of Tankonomics, who goes by the name Saiphas Cain, agrees with me. He's written Tankonomics as a beginner's guide to how best spend your resources and while I recommend you read the whole thing, you can click through to get a summary of the four most important points.Read and Comment
Following yesterday's teaser trailer, Wargaming.Net have released the 8.3 update for World of Tanks. With it comes nearly 20 new Chinese tanks to play with and a whole new tech tree to begin exploring.
More below, though don't get too excited it's a trailer a couple of links and some EXCELLENT Electro-swing.Read and Comment
There is one positive to snow, it's nature's detective handicap. You may be like me in that I don't have the superhuman skills of logic displayed by Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, yet once its been snowing you're provided with all manner of blatant evidence trails to decipher. Whether it be ascertaining that there's ice ahead by the outline of someone's rear in the snow before you, or divining that a migrating group of drunks were present not long before from the words 'Smeg LOL' written on a car windscreen.
Though looking out at the snow from my window I can work out that while I was sleeping this morning something larger came through here, I'm not looking at footsteps, they're too indistinct and shaky for that, no I'm looking at dub steps. The dub steps of a World of Tanks trailer if I'm not mistaken.Read and Comment
With
the update to version 8.3, eighteen new Chinese tanks are trundling
their way into World of Tanks. I think some of them may just become fan
favourites. While the Chinese tech tree is nowhere near as big or as
complex as that of the game’s other nations (it’s more of a tech
sapling), it’s quite unusual in its layout and it offers some
interesting new vehicles to try, some of which I really enjoyed driving.
Here are my first impressions of these new tanks and my thoughts on
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Wargaming are once again offering stateside players four more packages in their gift shop, three of which come with premium tanks and various tanky tidbits. The deals run until 22:00 PST on January 17 (06:00 GMT the next day), but are they worth your money? I did some number-crunching to work out their true value and, despite my further education in mathematics, my head started to hurt.Read and Comment
Four gift packages have been made available for players on US servers and, once again, I've taken out my calculator to work out which of these stretch your money the furthest. BUT! Before we get into all that cash talk, players using the European servers might like to know that Hunt Us Down has returned. Wargaming's own tanks will be trundling around battlefields at all tiers and, should you bag one, you'll win yourself 500 gold. Look out for any tanks that are members of the HUD1 clan between now and 05:30 GMT on January 12.
Naturally, you don't win that money if they appear on your own side and you teamkill them. That's not only poor form, it's likely to get you banned, you monster.
Before I get onto those package deals, if you have a few minutes to spare then you might want to read the latest installment from the memoirs of Trooper Leslie Dinning, which Wargaming have been publishing over on their European site. It's a (sobering) window to the past and a chance to read about a veteran's real-life experience in the Royal Tank Regiment.
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