World of Tanks is one of the most popular free-to-play shooters.
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How Wargaming decides what platform World of Tanks should invade next

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Since its launch in 2010, World of Tanks has grown to more than 120 million players on the PC. Its publisher, Cyprus-based Wargaming, said World of Tanks and its sister games World of Warships, World of Warplanes, and World of Tanks Blitz have generated more than 145 million registered players. The company’s franchise is one of those rare enduring free-to-play universes that players keep coming back to over and over.

But that’s not all from the PC. Wargaming has systematically expanded the reach of its free-to-play combat games to new platforms. This week, World of Tanks will launch on the PlayStation 4, and last month, Wargaming launched World of Tanks Blitz (previously available on iOS and Android) on Windows 10, including Windows mobile devices.

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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.