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Wargaming was founded by Victor Kislyi in Minsk on 2 August 1998, [3] intending the company as a developer of strategy video games. [4] The company's first project was DBA Online—the digital version of a miniature tabletop rule set De Bellis Antiquitatis—launched in 2000.
On April 4, 2022, Wargaming announced that they would be pulling all operations out of Russia and Belarus, and transferring all its live games services in those regions to Lesta Studio, which was announced to no longer be affiliated with the company. [11] On October 12, 2022, they released 3 new games that are based on Wargaming games.
World of Tanks (WoT) is an armoured warfare-themed multiplayer online game developed by Wargaming, featuring 20th century (1910s–1970s) era combat vehicles. [1] It is built upon a freemium business model where the game is free-to-play, but participants also have the option of paying a fee for use of "premium" features.
World of Warships is a naval warfare-themed free-to-play multiplayer online game developed and published by Wargaming. [1] Players control warships of choice and can battle other random players on the server, play cooperative battles against bots, or participate in an advanced player versus environment (PvE) battle mode.
Russia has one of the largest video games player bases in the world, with an estimated 65.2 million players nationwide as of 2018. [1] Despite piracy being widespread in the Russian gaming industry, [2] by 2019, the market more than doubled over the course of five years to the worth of over $2 billion.
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As of 2013, 64% of Wargaming was directly owned by Victor Kislyy, with another 25.5% controlled by his father, Vladimir Ivanovich Kislyi. In 2016, Bloomberg estimated the value of Kyslyi's company at $1.5 bln, while Kislyi's personal fortune exceeded $1bln. [11] [12] By 2019, the company had 17 offices around the world. [13]
Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. But some experts say this image of resilience is a mirage crafted by the Kremlin.