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Wargaming history
Wargaming company history timeline
Wargaming was founded by Victor Kislyi in Minsk on 2 August 1998, intending the company as a developer of strategy video games.
Wargaming.net è una società che si occupa dello sviluppo di giochi di strategia per PC. La compagnia è stata fondata nel 1998 e la sua sede principale si trova in Bielorussia.
Strategic wargaming ebbed and flowed through the last half of the 20th century, but such wargaming has seen immense growth since the year 2000.
The company's first project was DBA Online—the digital version of a miniature tabletop rule set De Bellis Antiquitatis—launched in 2000.
Wargaming started working on its first full-scale commercial project—the sci-fi turn-based strategy game Massive Assault, in March 2002.
On 16 November 2007, Wargaming acquired the Minsk-based developer Arise.
In December 2008, the company released its first real-time strategy Operation Bagration.
On 16 April 2009, Wargaming started working on real-time strategy game Order of War.
V současné době spravuje 16 poboček a vývojářských studií po celém světě. Dříve byla primárně zaměřena na realtimové a tahové strategie, ale v roce 2009 přešla na akční on-line hry s pay to progress platebním modelem a stala se lídrem trhu.
Initially focused on turn-based strategy and real-time strategy games, Wargaming switched to developing free-to-play online action games in 2009, including the military-themed team-based game World of Tanks, and later World of Warships and World of Warplanes. (en)
On 12 August 2010, the company released its first online title, World of Tanks.
European operations headquarters, known as Wargaming Europe, were established in Paris, France, in July 2011.
On 3 August 2011, the company created a direct presence in North America by opening an office in San Francisco.
In 2011, Wargaming relocated its headquarters from Minsk to Nicosia, Cyprus.
Throughout 2011, Wargaming joined strategic partnerships with Persha Studia, Lesta Studio and DAVA Consulting, with each operating separate projects under Wargaming.
At E3 2011, Wargaming announced the follow-up to World of Tanks, the flight combat online action game World of Warplanes.
At Gamescom 2011, the company unveiled the third part of its military saga—the naval action online game World of Warships.
On 21 February 2012, the Android version of World of Tanks Assistant, the mobile application for World of Tanks, went live in Europe and North America.
In May 2012, Wargaming entered the Korean games market by opening a subsidiary office in Seoul.
Wargaming embarked on a rebranding initiative and announced the Wargaming.net service, which will unite its games and services into a single battle universe in June 2012.
On 7 August 2012, Wargaming acquired Australian company BigWorld Technology which brought development of the middleware for its MMO projects in-house.
In an annual report for the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE) in 2012, Wargaming's revenue was declared to be 217.9 million Euro, with a net profit of 6.1 million Euro.
The company acquired Gas Powered Games on 14 February 2013.
On 26 March 2013, Wargaming announced World of Tanks Blitz, a mobile MMO game centered around tank combat available for smartphones and tablets.
On 22 July 2013, the company bought Total Annihilation and Master of Orion intellectual properties from the Atari bankruptcy proceedings.
In October, the company also rebranded DropForge, a Bellevue, Washington-based mobile game studio founded in 2013 by David Bluhm, as WG Cells.
The game was released on iOS in June 2014.
In July 2015, Wargaming launched WG Labs as a division that would act as a third-party publisher to outside developers.
Since 17 August 2015, these headquarters are located in the Wargaming HQ building, formerly known as the President building, located near the Presidential Palace in Nicosia.
Wargaming's WG Labs division released a reimagining of Master of Orion in August 2016.
In November 2016 Wargaming, SEGA and Creative Assembly announced a new strategic partnership that will see Total War: ARENA published worldwide.
As of 2016, Wargaming owns a significant share of the Hellenic Bank (Daniel S. Loeb's Third Point Group is the other major shareholder of the Cyprus-based Bank) and has shown an interest in purchasing land property assets in Cyprus for its use and investment purposes.
In 2017, Wargaming started a mobile games division called Wargaming Mobile.
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Wargaming competitors
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Arts | 1982 | $7.6B | 9,800 | 165 |
| Obsidian Entertainment | 2003 | $18.0M | 200 | 9 |
| Epic Games | 1991 | $500.0M | 1,001 | 113 |
| Bungie | 1991 | $2.7M | 901 | 4 |
| Daybreak Game | 2015 | $25.0M | 450 | 15 |
| Take-Two Interactive Software | 1993 | $5.3B | 6,495 | 61 |
| Atari | 1996 | $218.0M | 400 | 5 |
| Iron Galaxy Studios | 2008 | $4.7M | 130 | - |
| Jam City | 2010 | $12.0M | 825 | 9 |
| Trion Worlds | 2006 | $100.0M | 750 | - |
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