Wargaming’s Austin office doubling in size to focus on analytics

Wargaming.net, the maker of the wildly popular World of Tanks online title, has opened an interesting office in Austin, Texas. It’s hiring number crunchers who can bring the benefits of big data to online games.

Wargaming makes big massively multiplayer online releases using the free-to-play business model. But a good portion of the team in Austin dedicates itself to a service for game designers: analytics. Craig Fryar, a former BioWare developer, has joined Cyprus-based Wargaming as head of global business intelligence. He is building a team of analytics experts that will double in size to 15 people within a year.