World of Warplanes
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Even a 10-year-old can easily fly aircraft using a mouse in World of Warplanes

If you haven’t played a combat flight simulator in a long time, it’s time to climb back into the cockpit. Wargaming.net just launched the open beta test for its World of Warplanes online game, and the upcoming release makes the complicated task of flying and shooting much easier than past offerings.

In fact, Wargaming has made it so easy to fly with a computer mouse that I don’t feel the need to pull out my dusty joystick to play World of Warplanes, which takes place in a massively multiplayer online world. And that should enable Wargaming, the maker of the wildly popular World of Tanks, to broaden the market for the air-combat genre.

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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.