Russians love World of Tanks. Sure, they do. And this is quite evident from the fact that multiplayer vehicular battling game World of Tanks set a new Guinness World Record for the most players simultaneously connected to one server in Russia. Reportedly on January 21, a whopping number of 190,541 players logged on to a single Russian World of Tanks server. Prior to this, World of Tanks also created a record on January 23, 2011 when it hit 91,311 players, less than half of the new record.

“It’s an important and exciting milestone for the company,” Wargaming vice president Andrei Yarantsau said in a statement. “It inspires us to greater efforts in polishing and refining all aspects of our present and future projects. If World of Tanks keeps growing at the rate it is, the game will soon top the current total and secure another world record.”

On an another note, CEO Victor Kislyi thinks the game can do better,

“However, with the population of the game growing steadily another week or two, [it] would let us report a more impressive record as the current PCCU number surpasses 120,000 players.”

As of now, World of Tanks has more than 50 million registered players worldwide. Technically, most of its concurrent player number comes from Russia. For instance, its peak concurrent users once topped 815,000 players in Russia alone.

Networking and server infrastructure is still evolving and although EA’s SimCity Online is doing a terrible job at handing the influx of users Wargaming.net is showing that they know their stuff. The market is filling up with integration for supporting data centers and software-defined networking that provides operations powerful methods for making sure lots of users are all happy at once. It’s unknown what kind of hardware Wargaming.net is running on–but whatever it is from cloud provisioning to traditional data centers, they’re doing something right.