We recently sat down online with Tanki Online's chief marketing officer, Roman Epishin, who gave us a quick tour of the game and the different turrets players can use to blast at other away with. All told, there's 40 million registered players healthy numbers whichever way you look at it.
There's now English, Russian and German versions of the game, and a completely separate server system for Chinese players (plus a newly established Brazilian version).
The game launched in 2009, and the studio that created the game - Alternativa Platform - are Russian (although the first build of the game was in English). It's a tank game, but with an isometric view and handling more similar to that of Micro Machines than World of Tanks (there's a popular trend for players showing off parkour skills with their tanks, which tells you something about how the armoured vehicles move). Tanki Online is slowly growing into a big player in the free-to-play browser game space.