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Wargaming closes 2012 with a whopping 45M World of Tanks players

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The London-based online game publisher Wargaming has grown up in a hurry. You may not have heard of company’s hit title World of Tanks, but the game’s worldwide popularity has experienced a huge boost with its biggest initial audience in Russia, where war games are practically a national pastime. Wargaming closed 2012 with more than 45 million registered players for World of Tanks, up 27 million from just 18 million a year ago.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.