3-year-old
Yesterday was the blog's birthday - kinda forgot that with all this shopping&entertainment business summit in Singapore. :)It has been 3 years. Thank you for still stopping by. Promise to post when...
View ArticleThe Secret Service Yacht Club
From today Scott Wichall has volunteered his time free of charge for the daunting task of proof reader for these articles. So my Thanks to him.On 4th of January, 1890, a plantation owner in Sri Lanka...
View Article[WoT] Nation vs Nation
Well, guess, you've heard that. What do you think of the idea - having factional battles in World of Tanks (and may be some other our games). For now, as a part of random battles -...
View ArticleErfolgreiche Flucht!
On September the 5th, 1940, a ME109 was in a dive over England, with a Spitfire behind it. The ME109 pilots name was Franz Von Werra, and things were going badly. Just a week earlier he had returned...
View Article[WoT] 0.8.11 is Coming
How do you like the upcoming 0.8.11 update for World of Tanks?Any major concerns or ideas?WT E100 will lose 200HP btw.
View Article[WoTB] World of Tanks Blitz: Tanks and Tablets
Popularity of the original World of Tanks did not leave aspiring game development studios indifferent. Since 2011 WoT-resembling (in terms of gameplay) products started to rocket on different platforms...
View ArticleLibya's Death Star
On the morning of the 19th of March 1987, the sun began to flood the desert around Bir Kora in northern Chad. It revealed a parched desolate landscape with no vegetation at all, just reddened or ochre...
View Article[WoT360] Moar Tanks!!
World of Tanks 360 for Xbox 360 is now live! Not yet worldwide (this is to come).
View ArticleLet's Battle Magazine
Wargaming's Let's Battle magazine is now available for your mobile.Check it out on iOS and Android.Your feedback is appreciated.
View Article[WoTB] German Tech Tree
Initial German tech tree for World of Tanks Blitz revealed.This makes it. All researchable tanks for Blitz have been announced by now. US and USSR.
View ArticleChief of Battle: Part one
In the late 40's the British started looking for a new design of tank to replace their Centurions. However, nothing came of that programme and the Centurions remained in service. A decade later the...
View Article[WoT] Feedback on Live 0.8.11
How do you like the recent update for World of Tanks? Precisely:1. FOV changes2. Any issues with aiming/reticle especially while leading targets?3. National battles aka "Confronation"? Balanced? Fun to...
View ArticleChief of Battle: Part two
Part one can be found hereLate at night on August the first 1990, Kuwaiti Intelligence learned of the impending Iraqi invasion. They immediately flashed the warning up through the chain of command....
View ArticleCold Gold
Convoy QP11 steamed out of Murmansk on the 28th of April 1942 and passed the Kola Inlet into the frozen Arctic seas, lashed by wind and water. The temperature could easily fall to -10 degrees, and the...
View ArticleWhat I did on my Holidays
Overlord has asked me to do some more articles for this site. Now I have my Day job to do, and these articles actually take a bit of time, so I said I would try to stick up the odd piece on a...
View ArticleWings of fury
Many of you will have heard of the Hawker Sea Fury, the monoplane fighter that served in several air forces just after World War Two. However there was a biplane called the Hawker Fury that served...
View Article[WoT] Restoration of T-34
Made in WG documentary on Restoration of legendary T-34.Watch the movie here. RU voiceover, EN subtitles.
View Article[WoWP] Update 1.2
Major update 1.2 for World of Warplanes is now live.The key features are:replays (finally)battle missions advanced post-battle statisticsphysics and balancing changesinterface improvements Any feedback?
View ArticlePakistan's Waterloo
Tanks are mighty behemoths of destruction, but in one case they have created as well. This all happened during the short 1965 war between India and Pakistan.India was having a bad time of it in the...
View Article[WoTB] Ready for Beta!?
Obviously, it's still somewhat semi-official, but we have finished preparations for closed beta on the tech side.This means [provided that nothing extraordinary happens of course] in the very near...
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