World of Tanks is set to officially launch in North America and Europe on April 12, and the team has marked the occasion by releasing statistics from the beta events.

"Over almost a year of beta-testing World of Tanks recruited about 700,000 players in Europe and North America that took part in 5.6 million battles battering 1.7 billion shells to destroy more than 115 million tanks and artillery units. PCCU number surpassed 25,000 players.

According to the statistics PzIV, KV and M3_Grant were the most popular German, Soviet and American tanks respectively over the course of the beta."

As a special present, an M4A2E4 tank will be given to closed beta testers who registered by Jan. 27 and have more than 1,000 battles on their profiles.