World of Tanks: Mercenaries

Wargaming reveals World of Tanks: Mercenaries expansion for PS4 and Xbox One

Wargaming announced it will launch World of Tanks: Mercenaries, a major expansion and the most significant content addition to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the tank-fighting game, on June 26. The Mercenaries expansion will introduce a new faction, crazy new armored vehicles, new maps and a new single-player and cooperative story-driven narrative.

The console version has attracted more than 15 million players since 2014, when it launched on the Xbox 360. It debuted on the Xbox One in 2016 and on the PlayStation 4 in 2016. It’s a free update, the largest for the online game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.