World of Tanks Blitz on the Switch.
World of Tanks Blitz on the Switch.
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World of Tanks: Blitz arrives as crossplay free-to-play game on the Switch

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Wargaming has launched World of Tanks: Blitz, its free-to-play multiplayer mobile game, today on the Nintendo Switch. The announcement represents a first for collaboration between Nintendo and Wargaming, as well as Blitz’s first console appearance.

World of Tanks: Blitz has seen 137 million downloads over the past six years on iOS, Android, and the PC. And the Switch version will have cross-play support so that players on any of the platforms can play with each other on the same server. If players wish, they can just play against other Switch players, said Wargaming’s Thaine Lyman in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.