<P> On 5 January 2011 there were 74,536 players simultaneously online on the Russian World of Tanks server, which, according to Wargaming, had become a world record amongst MMO games . The "Most players online simultaneously on one MMO server" world record was officially registered by Guinness World Records on 23 January 2011 and constituted 91,311 players . According to the game's official site, the Russian server hit the one million registration mark on 18 January 2011 . </P> <P> The open beta of the English version of the game was launched on 27 January 2011; the official release was scheduled for 12 April 2011 . </P> <P> The World of Tanks pre-orders were scheduled to be available for the American and European clusters before the game release . World of Tanks was released on 12 April 2011 in Europe and North America . </P> <P> On 24 May 2011 total number of registrations for all three game servers reached 3,000,000 players (2,000,000 on Russian server and 1,000,000 on Europe and North America). On 18 November 2011 the public test of awaited version 0.7. 0 was started . Two new maps are released based on the fjords of Norway and the swamps of Eastern Europe . New texture for tanks also introduced . </P>

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