World of Tanks is a massively multiplayer online game developed by Belarusian-Cypriot[4] company Wargaming, featuring early to mid-20th century era fighting vehicles.[5] 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. The focus is on player vs. player gameplay with each player controlling an armored vehicle, which may be a light, medium or heavy tank, tank destroyer, or self-propelled gun. World of Tanks debuted as an eSports game at the World Cyber Games 2012.[6]

On 10 June 2013 it was announced that World of Tanks was coming to Xbox Live Arcade on 12 February 2014 as World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition.[7][8][9] Xbox 360 players use separate servers to those playing the Windows version, and players of each version have separate accounts.[10] The Xbox 360 version was developed by Wargaming West studio.[11] An Xbox One version has been announced, and was released on July 28, 2015.[12][13] A PlayStation 4 version is scheduled to release in 2016.[14] World of Tanks has also recently expanded to mobile platforms under the name World of Tanks Blitz, in addition to a board game titled World of Tanks Rush and a collectable card game titled World of Tanks: Generals.