Wargaming continues to transfer the business of operating games in Russia and Belarus to St. Petersburg Lesta Games. The company announced that a separate World of Tanks client called “World of Tanks” will be launched in these countries in September.

Since July 1, the new owner of Wargaming assets in Belarus (Game Stream LLC) and in Russia (Lesta LLC) has now become the former CEO of the latter.

The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus has published a list of legal entities whose shareholders include persons from unfriendly countries. The list also includes the Wargaming company.

The new offices will be located in Belgrade and Warsaw. According to Wargaming, they will employ about 400 people.

Две недели назад несколько сотрудников Wargaming рассказали порталу dev.by, что до конца мая в минском офисе планируют сократить почти весь штат. Вчера журналисты пообщались с двумя уволенными специалистами о том, как те расстались с компанией. Как и в прошлый раз, ответы получились противоречивыми.

In early April, Wargaming announced its withdrawal from Russia and Belarus. Recently, the portal dev.by talked to the company’s employees about what is happening now in the Minsk office, which is preparing to close.

Portal dev.by compared how much IT companies founded by Belarusians or which have an office in Belarus earn in Lithuania. The unequivocal leader was Melsoft, the owner of mobile games Family Island and MyCafe.

The developer and publisher of the World of Tanks series has announced a review of its business processes. The company is no longer going to work in Russia and Belarus. She’s leaving both countries.

Wargaming has announced that it will help its Ukrainian employees. The company intends to arrange for employees and their families to move to other countries. She also said that she had allocated 30 million hryvnias ($1 million) for humanitarian support.

At the end of last week, Sergey Burkatovsky, vice president and creative director of Wargaming, publicly supported the so-called military operation in Ukraine. Soon after, it became known about his dismissal from the company.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up is an interview with Gauhar Aldiyarova, the operating director of the Wargaming RED studio.

We continue to summarize the results of 2021 together with top managers and experts of the gaming industry (and related ones). Next up are interviews with representatives of Wargaming: Evgeny Krishtapovich, regional publishing Director of World of Tanks, Andrey Gruntov, regional publishing Director of World of Tanks Console, and Natalia Pershits, head of World of Tanks Blitz (MS-1 mobile development studio).

Zachary Doig, senior community manager of the American World of Tanks team, has left Wargaming. He made this decision because, in his opinion, the unfair dismissal of another employee. According to Doig, Wargaming simply made a member of his team a “scapegoat” in a scandalous situation around one of the ships in World of Warships.World of Tanks

Wargaming has announced the opening of Wargaming RED, a new studio located in Moscow. Its employees will be engaged in the development of an as yet unannounced cross-platform free-play game and support for old franchises.

A scandal broke out in the World of Warships community related to the monetization policy of Wargaming. Players complain about a large number of loot boxes, randomness and criticize the game for introducing gambling mechanics. Against the background of discontent, dozens of streamers announced a boycott of developers and withdrew from the affiliate program.

In April, Wargaming launched a new studio. It is located in the capital of Lithuania — Vilnius. A couple of months later it became known that the “tank” giant also purchased 76 apartments in one of the high-rise buildings there. The transaction amount is estimated at €20 million.

The Russian mobile games market earned almost a billion dollars last year. And this year he can earn even more. In January-March 2021 alone, Russian users spent $235 million on mobile games.

How distributed project work is built in the MS-1 mobile development studio (Wargaming), — in his column on App2Top.ru told Vadim Gilvarg, program manager of World of Tanks Blitz.

We continue the mini-series of interviews within the framework of the WN Dev Contest. In them, the jury of the competition shares tips on working in the game market. This time we talked with Mikhail Isidorov, Head of Products at Wargaming Nexus.