Everyone has a fighting chance
World of Tanks players will be able to bring a little Warhammer 40K into the game with the arrival of the KV-2 tank decorated with the Valhallan Ragnarok camo as well as the BDR G1B with its Mordian style.
Legendary Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is coming to World of Tanks. Along with him, he brings eleven new Italian vehicles into the game, including a “never-before-seen autoreloader mechanic” into the game. The Italian line will feature a series of lightly armored vehicles, higher damage mid-tier vehicles and Tier VIII+ post-WWII designs that include the autoreloader mechanic.
World of Tanks XBox One, XBox 360 and PlayStation 4 players will be receiving a free content expansion called War Stories: Spoils of War, a trilogy of story-based alternative history adventures. The new content can be played as a single player or in cooperative multiplayer.
Wargaming is celebrating the fourth anniversary of World of Tanks on console. Players on PlayStation 4 and XBox One who log in between now and the end of the month and who win a single match will score a free Japanese Tier II Ashigaru Te-Ke tank in thanks for their patronage.
Wargaming is ready to kick off the next Ranked Battles season that comes with a host of changes to turn “the whole season into an action-packed chase”. The season will take place in a single stage that lasts for three weeks and has a 15-rank ladder for players to ascend.
If you’ve ever dreamed of driving a tank, Wargaming has your back. The company has partnered with a venture fund company to form a new venture called Neurogaming. One of the first tasks on the docket is to bring World of Tanks to virtual reality at some point in the future. To do so, two will be working on a pair of projects, one called Cinema VR, the other called Polygon VR.
World of Tanks will be seeing a nearly new game debut in March 2018. A new graphics engine will overhaul the entire technological base of the game and replace it with the CORE graphics engine. The game will be reimagined with redesigned graphical standards and each map “will have a distinguished flair” for deeper immersion. In addition, the entire sound tech as well. Each map will sport its own unique sound theme.
Both World of Tanks on PC and on console and World of Tanks Blitz have some fun holiday events going on for players. In one, play in Toy Tank Mode, while in the other, discover Blitz Fair.
World of Tanks players who have been enjoying the War Stories Campaigns will be pleased to hear that Runaway Tiger, the fifth in the series, is now out on all consoles. In this chapter, players will experience the Battle of El Alamein, but with a twist. Runaway Tiger is an alternate history campaign where “Allies have secretly gained access to a German production facility”.
The World of Tanks 2017 Championship roster of teams for the Wargaming.net League 2017 tournament has been announced. Each region (EU, CIS,NA,APAC and CH) will have teams represented and will compete for a share of the $300,000 prize pool at this year’s WG Fest. The first event will take place during the playoffs from December 13-17 with the finals held at the Moscow Expocenter on december 23rd.