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Posted on Nov 18, 2010 in Games PR

HD Voice Chat Coming To World of Tanks

Wargaming.net has announced that the #1 integrated voice platform for Social Web, Vivox, will be integrated into World of Tanks. “When creating World of Tanks it was critical for us to include voice communication capabilities. With proven scalability, numerous live integrations, and best in class quality – partnering with Vivox was an easy decision,” said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net. “Vivox Voice makes the gaming experience more natural and helps execute our vision of promoting teamwork. Players will be able to collaborate on battle plans and communicate during combat in the quickest, most intuitive way possible – speech – and Vivox delivers it the best.”   Vivox Voice will let World of Tanks players talk to each other both during the game and prior to combat when compiling a team in the lobby. The voice capabilities are built into the game interface seamlessly so players will be able to interact easily and naturally during tank battles all without having to leave the game or use a 3rd party application....

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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 in Games PR

World of Tanks Reaches Half a Million Players

Wargaming.net announced today that the number of gamers playing World of Tanks has eclipsed 500,000.  Since its release three months ago in Russia the player base reached 350,000 active players (with 500,000 registrations). In the USA and Europe World of Tanks is still in Closed Beta Test having 150,000 active players (200,000 registrations). World of Tanks is a cooperative massive muliplayer online (MMO) action game focused on tank warfare during the Second World War.  Offering over 150 different vehicles from the United States, Germany, and the Soviet Union, each tank is created to be historically accurate.  World of Tanks boasts an authentic upgrade system which allows players to try out a wide variety of vehicle and weapons loadouts. The number of peak con-current users (PCCU) in Russia exceeded 43,000. In the West PCCU surpassed 10,000 players. On average each active gamer spends 3 hours and 20 minutes playing the game every day. 10 million battles have been fought since September. “It’s just the beginning of a global legend,” said...

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