World of Tanks maker Wargaming opens UK games development studio
Free-to-play specialist rolls into Guildford
By Alex Calvin, PCGamesInsider Contributing Editor
Free-to-play MMO specialist Wargaming has opened up shop in the UK.
The firm has announced a new studio in Guildford which will be working on a free-to-play MMO title. This is being built on Unreal and is a multiplatform affair.
Recruitment drive
The outfit is going to be set up by EA and CCP vet Sean Decker, whose portfolio includes the Battlefield, Mirror's Edge, Eve Online and SimCity franchises.
This studio is going to have a core team of 25 people, which the World of Tanks firm is hiring for as we speak.
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Alex Calvin is a freelance journalist who writes about the business of games. He started out at UK trade paper MCV in 2013 and left as deputy editor over three years later. In June 2017, he joined Steel Media as the editor for new site PCGamesInsider.biz. In October 2019 he left this full-time position at the company but still contributes to the site on a daily basis. He has also written for GamesIndustry.biz, VGC, Games London, The Observer/Guardian and Esquire UK.
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