from the shock and awe dept.
Wargaming.net has released patch 0.6.5 for its flagship game, World of Tanks.
Among the big changes is an entire U.S. Tank Destroyer line from tiers 1 through 9, two new maps and the introduction of the top-tier M46 Patton main battle tank.
from the milestones dept.
Wargaming.net recently announced that World of Tanks has surpassed 3 million registered players!
2 million are now registered in Russia alone, while Europe and the US host over a million players and climbing fast. With the release last month in China, we’re certain that this is just the beginning of World of Tank’s meteoric rise.
“At the very beginning of development for World of Tanks, we were assuming that the maximum number would be around 600,000 players worldwide. Now, we have 2 million registrations in Russia alone, not to mention the Western audience and its immense growth,” said Wargaming.net CEO Victor Kislyi. “With the tremendous number we’ve reached in Russia as well as the dynamics of community growth in Europe and North America, we are looking forward to the many more milestones to come.”
from the animal castle dept.
Continuing our exclusive coverage of the recently-announced, BigWorld-Powered, Userjoy MMO “Moego,”, we have reached the point in the show were we take a look at… ANIMAL CASTLES. By far our favorite awesome anomaly to come out of the Userjoy collective brain, the animal castle is a superstructure riding on the back of a gigantic, but nonetheless adorable, uber animal. Undoubtedly, depending on which kingdom you fight for, your family will have access to the appropriate mobile animal castle, an entity that can be upgraded progressively over time. The strategic benefit of having a building-sized animal holding a building on its back should be, at the very least, moderately clear.
MOEGO is a “community-centered free-to-play MMORPG,” with all the expected accoutrement, as well as some very unique offerings in the MMO space. These include family groups, “animal castles,” pet armies, and a few others.
from the ignition dept.
The BigWorld Developers Conference in Suzhou is rolling.
We’ve sold out the hotel, and are loving the opportunity to engage with more of our clients and interested parties.
Check out some of photos of the event thus far here.
BigWorld Developers Conference: Suzhou from BigWorld Tech on Vimeo.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Suzhou, Jiangsu, 4/6/11 – This weekend in Suzhou, the BigWorld development team will be interacting with and presenting to Chinese developers, journalists and publishers for the BigWorld Developers Conference.
The conference will span two days and over 12 presentations covering all aspects of BigWorld Technology, including server optimization, lighting, client modification, user acquisition and so forth. The team will also be taking this opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the Chinese development community, in order to better understand what is being done with BigWorld Technology, and what can be done to improve the offering and add to the host of over twenty high-quality products that have been built on it.
BigWorld has long held a strong presence as the leading MMO and online games middleware technology solution in China. Over 20 Chinese organizations have enrolled, including current BigWorld licensees such as Netease, Sohu, Konzhong, and platform partners such as Umbra.
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BigWorld provides a mature middleware platform for developers of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) and Virtual Worlds that is fast becoming the industry standard.
The BigWorld MMO Technology Suite is a complete technology solution, consisting of a tightly integrated suite of high performance server applications, tools, advanced 3D client and APIs designed specifically for the fast and efficient creation of MMOGs. We give you the power to focus tightly on your core business of game production, rather than risking your project on uncertain, expensive and time-consuming research & speculative software development.
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from the hyperbole dept.
The BigWorld-powered World of Tanks MMO has been receiving quite a bit of press attention recently, but this one surprised even us.
Behold the latest development in a long string of awesome emanating from Wargaming Studios in Minsk: La Gargantua.
The massive “treaded fortress” apparently sports a long-range impulse rail turret, mine-laying capabilities, and a host of other yet-to-be-revealed functions.
This news has the BigWorld team questioning a number of its assumptions about reality, but also whether or not this signals a new change in the theme of the until-now period-based tank warfare game. Should we be expecting even more futuristic tech appearing from vortices across the WoT world? Steampunk, anyone?…. anyone?…. Bueller?
Still, rumors suggest that this may be the work of an independent faction or individual using the BigWorld Indie development license.
At the very least, the WoT player community can’t complain any longer about Russian tanks being overpowered. This unprovenonced beast now takes the cake… and basically anything else it wants to take….
Yikes.
La Gargantua
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