Source: http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3436747.html

Hello everyone,

Belarus portal tut.by published an interview with WoWs developer Ivan Moroz. From the interview:

- developers expect WoWs to be successful, ideally as much as WoT

- the idea of creating a naval game is very old, even older than the tanks game idea

- the developer, Lesta Studio was chosen because it’s from St.Petersburg (which is a city connected to navy) and because it was an experienced team, creating special effects for movies. They have also been working earlier with navy-themed objects.

- WG has numerous historical consultants for ships, they visited ships both in USA and Japan personally

- the earliest ship is from 1904, the latest from 50′s

- the game will come out with US and Japanese ships, later Germany, Britain, USSR and some other nations will be added

- it’s possible that submarines will appear in WoWs, but specific task (niche) has to be invented for them in the game

- to be successful, you have to maneuver constantly while trying to bring your turrets and torpedo tubes to bear

- closed beta is scheduled for winter 2015 (SS: here I think it is a typo, should be winter 2014)

- the minimal configuration will be Core 2 Duo processor or better, 2GB Ram, 8600GT or Intel HD4000 or Radeon HD2600 or better videocard

And a few screenies: