Nick Katselapov, Chief Business Development Officer at Wargaming, has been added to the list of people related to terrorism by KGB Belarus (the State Security Committee). He was accused of financing terrorist activity.

A group of former Wargaming developers, together with renowned video game art director Viktor Antonov, have formed the new studio Eschatology Entertainment. They have now raised $4 million to create their debut AAA game.

After exiting Russia and announcing the closure of its office in Belarus, Wargaming has revealed its next step in the restructuring. The company behind World of Tanks is now opening two new studios in Serbia and Poland.

A few Wargaming employees have shared new details about the ongoing liquidation of the company’s office in Minsk. The answers varied from talks about mass layoffs to Minsk-based devs being offered to keep working under another legal entity.

Wargaming employees located in Minsk, Belarus, have opened up about the company’s decision to close this office and leave the country. It looks like they didn’t know about it beforehand and currently can’t understand whether they will be offered relocation options.

World of Tanks and World of Warships developer Wargaming has decided to leave Russia and Belarus. It will transfer all its local business to Lesta Studio, which will also operate games in these countries.

Wargaming has stated its commitment to help its Ukrainian employees. The company behind World of Tanks will help employees and their families relocate to other countries and will donate $1 million for humanitarian aid.

Zachary Doig, who was a senior manager of community and events on the World of Tanks Americas Team, has left Wargaming. He named scapegoating an employee on his team and toxic corporate culture among the reasons behind his departure.

More than 20 prominent members of the World Of Warships community program have left citing the Wargaming’s increasing reliance on loot boxes and randomized item unlocks. That’s in a title marketed to children and veterans.

This is the latest installment of Semenov&Pevzner’s overview of the gaming industry’s major lawsuits and disputes from all over the world.

DPS Games is the new name of Wargaming’s studio based in Guildford, UK.

Wargaming and Mad Head Games announced that supporting Pagan Online as a multiplayer game is no longer sustainable. As a result, the publisher and the developer will be converting the title from multiplayer to single player.

Thaine Lyman, General Manager of the mobile studio at Wargaming Minsk, is one of the key people behind the publisher’s flagship mobile title World of Tanks Blitz. On Thaine’s watch, Tanks Blitz entered its sixth year on the market and did so with flying colors: the game reached an unprecedented DAU of 1.5 million players globally.

With two days to go before 2020, we still had time to catch up with Justin Farren, Executive Producer at Wargaming, to discuss what 2019 means (meant?) for the industry.

Belarusian indie studio BlitzTeam claims Wargaming is suing its former employees over an open source project.