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Wargaming launched World of Tanks 2.0 as a heavily-updated game on September 1 in Asia and September 3 in the U.S. and Europe.

It took a while to happen. The original World of Tanks — which Will Wright called a shooter game for old people — came out in 2010. Seven years, later, the company announced it reached World of Tanks 1.0. And now, another eight years later, we have World of Tanks 2.0. Way back at the 10th anniversary in 2020, World of Tanks had cleared $1 billion in revenue.

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