World of Tanks Blitz in 2014.
World of Tanks Blitz in 2014.
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Kablam! How Wargaming tuned World of Tanks Blitz for mobile gamers (interview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 9 min

After more than two years of development, Wargaming.net finally launched its World of Tanks Blitz World War II tank-combat game on Apple’s smartphones and tablets. The title is a crucial one for Wargaming as it chases hardcore gamers as they migrate to mobile devices.

The company spent a lot of time refining how to translate its popular keyboard-and-mouse PC game, which has attracted more than 85 million players, to the smaller touch screens of tablets and smartphones. The title runs on iPad 2 and up or iPhone 4S and up. Wargaming rolled out the title previously to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland in May. It received an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 in reviews on the App Store. Gamers played an average of 70 minutes in the 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.