Wargaming (company)
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| Private | |
| Industry | Entertainment Video games |
| Founded | August 12, 1998 |
| Headquarters | Nicosia, Cyprus |
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Key people
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Victor Kislyi (CEO) Vangelis Georgiou (Managing Director / Head of Global Publishing) Matias Myllyrinne (Head of Development) Andrew Tinney (Chief Financial Officer) Nick Katselapov (Executive Director / Chief Business Development Officer) Jerry Prochazka (Chief Human Resources Officer) |
| Products | Video Games & Services |
| Revenue |
 €217,9 million (2012) |
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€6,1 million (2012) |
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Number of employees
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4000+ |
| Subsidiaries |
Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore Wargaming Seattle Wargaming Austin Wargaming America, Inc. Wargaming Europe Wargaming Asia Pte. Ltd. Lesta Studio |
| Website | Official website |
Wargaming Group Limited is an international game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. The group operates across 16 offices and development centers.
Primarily focused on turn-based strategy and real-time strategy Games, Wargaming switched to developing free-to-play online action games in 2009, and has since become one of the leaders in the market. The company's critical and commercial success came after the launch of its first online project, the military-themed team-based game World of Tanks.
Wargaming was founded by Victor Kislyi in 1998 in Minsk, Belarus as a development studio creating multiplayer strategy games for PC.
The company's first project was DBA Online—the digital version of a miniature tabletop rule set De Bellis Antiquitatis—launched in 2000. Wargaming started working on its first full-scale commercial project—the sci-fi turn-based strategy game Massive Assault, in March 2002.
Over the course of five years, the company shipped five projects within the Massive Assault franchise.
On November 16, 2007, Wargaming acquired the Minsk-based developer Arise. In December 2008, the company released its first real-time strategy Operation Bagration. On April 16, 2009, Wargaming started working on real-time strategy Order of War, which was published by Square Enix on September 18, 2009. On August 12, 2010, the company released its first online title World of Tanks. On April 12, 2011, World of Tanks was released in North America and Europe.
At E3 2011, Wargaming announced the follow-up to World of Tanks, the flight combat online action game World of Warplanes. At Gamescom 2011, the company unveiled the third part of its military saga—the naval action online game World of Warships.
In October 2011, Wargaming announced the online collectible card MMO game World of Tanks: Generals.
2011 marked the beginning of active global expansion for Wargaming. On July 26, 2011, the company opened Wargaming Group Ltd (the new holding company of the Group) with headquarters in Nicosia, Cyprus and after that the European Business Operations Centre—Wargaming Europe—with headquarters in Paris, France and with a subsidiary office in Berlin, Germany. On August 3, 2011, the company created a direct presence in North America by opening an office in San Francisco.
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