While I can’t personally attest to have played it, Wargaming’s World of Tanks is one of the major success stories of the Free To Play MMO world – boasting 30 million subscribers and spinning off into a plane focused MMO next year (World of Warplanes). So you may be wondering how and why it ties into Australia? Well, Wargaming have just announced that they’ve purchased Sydney-based middleware developer BigWorld for $45m, a move they believe will solidify their dominance in the F2P MMO market as well as lay down the foundations of future expansion. Continue reading »