Well, literally minutes ago, WoT won Golden Joystick in the Online Game category.

Let’s face it: EU forum raged, Russians raged, US forums weren’t too happy either. Since it’s usually the forum goers that are passionate about a game enough to do the voting, makes me wonder, how on earth did World of Tanks win with all the fire it was gathering on forums.

What really stuck me as odd though was the fact that Wargaming.net was in fact the sponsor of the show. I mean, can you even lose, if you sponsor the competition?

As for the Golden Joystick show itself stream (that goes on here, if anyone is interested), what the hell was that? It looks terribly amateurish and hasted. Considering it’s allegedly the “most important” computer game award, it looked cheap and hasted, there was no talking, no speeches, no winning game footage, nothing.

Well, grats to Wargaming I guess. Can’t say I sincerely believe WG deserved to win, but it’s a good game.

Source: Dom1n’s blog

Hello everyone,

here’s a Russian leaked video of the World of Tanks: Generals. I guess the alpha tester was already banned :) There is not much info about it, so just so you know how it looks in action.

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Hello everyone,

before we continue with the article on French superheavy, a piece of info emerged yesterday, that is too good to pass up, especially since you know how I like German tanks. Very special thanks go to Thor_Hammerschlag and Zarax for providing this info.

Let’s imagine for a moment a fourth German TD branch (third being heavy assault guns, Sturmtiger and such). Yes, that is science fiction for now, such a thing will definitely not come before 2015, but just cope with me. How would it like, what is there left? Well, the Waffenträgers. Some vehicles are pretty clear, such as the Steyr Waffenträger for example. If you are interested in how such a line could look, I already wrote a post about it in the past.

But what about tier 10? Waffenträgers are fragile and on such light platforms, I think there would be no room for “classic” cassette autoloaders (leaving you with hydraulic assist, but that’s a story for another time). We already have the King of Burst WT E-100 for now, so it has to be a different platform. Ideally with the gun in the back, for better weight distribution, probably limited rotation, not to tip the whole damn thing over when firing. What I like most is this (yet another Rheinmetall Borsig) proposal setup:

Of course, other platforms are available and perhaps the Panther one would be more suitable for such a vehicle. But that’s not what I wanted to write about, perhaps I will at some point in the future.

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Hello everyone,

Theatyhannington submitted some invite codes for US server (not sure they work for EU):

HPG-FA7-YYB-68 (1 week prem + 1000g)
N8M39G5MUX24WV (1 week prem + T14 tank)
N8M39X6FAM64BS (same)

Hello everyone,

interested to see, whether Wargaming succeeds or fails in real time? Tomorrow, at 3PM BST (British Summer Time, +1GMT), there will be a live stream here. Will Wargaming succeed, or will they fail?

We’ll know…

Hello everyone,

what everyone whispered about and hinted at was confirmed by SerB: KV-1S is getting split.

KV-1S will be tier 5. KV-85 (KV-1S with a bigger turret), KV-100 and KV-122 (which is basically a KV-1S hull with bigger 1800mm turret ring and IS turret) will stay on tier 6 (all three as one tank, to be clear). Therefore, KV-1S will be a faster, but less armored alternative to KV-1, the tier 6 vehicle will not lose its 122mm gun (looks like SerB won the argument).

Update: For those fearing nothing will change – current KV-1S is a blend of “light” original KV-1S mobility and KV-122 firepower. The new KV-122 is likely to be a lot slower, less agile and I am sure they will have a look at the gun balance stats too.