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OnLive makes cloud version of heavy-duty game War Thunder run on tablets

The streaming-game service OnLive is announcing today that it has launched a cloud version of the online warfare game War Thunder that will run on a wide range of connected devices such as tablets.

War Thunder, a popular massively multiplayer online game for the PC with 6 million subscribers, is free-to-play and normally runs on hefty PCs because of its 3D graphics that simulate World War II combat. But OnLive will make it instantly playable on connected devices using cloud-gaming technology dubbed CloudLift.

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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.