World of Tanks rumbles toward Xbox One in 2015

By Will Fulton February 20, 2015

world of tanks xbone announcement cat 3 — Image used with permission by copyright holder

World of Tanks, the free-to-play, massively multiplayer online vehicular battle game, is coming to Xbox One sometime in 2015, according to an announcement from Belarusian-Cypriot developer Wargaming. Like the extremely successful Windows and Xbox 360 versions, World of Tanks will be free-to-play on Xbox One, with in-game purchases available for new vehicles, upgrades, and whatnot.

The game came to Xbox 360 in in February 2014, with separate servers from the original Windows version that launched in 2011. The upcoming Xbox One port supports cross-platform play with 360 at launch, allowing owners of either console to go head-to-head on the same battlefields. All of the progress earned on 360 — including vehicles, experience, and credits — is associated with the Xbox Live account, and thus transfer automatically over to Xbox One. Players can freely use either console interchangeably and progress will be maintained.

Recommended Videos

World of Tanks is available now as a free download for Xbox Live Gold Members on Xbox 360, if you want to get a jump on earning goodies before the Xbox One launch follows later this year at an unspecified date.

Topics

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Will Fulton is a New York-based writer and theater-maker. In 2011 he co-founded mythic theater company AntiMatter Collective…

Gaming

Xbox’s one-handed accessibility controller is a game changer

An Xbox Adaptive Joystick sits on a person's shoulder.

Xbox created a unique new controller built with accessibility in mind. The Xbox Adaptive Joystick is a one-handed controller coming in 2025 that supports customization via 3D printing. It will retail for $30.

The Xbox Adaptive Joystick continues the company's push into accessibility. The company previously made an impact in the space with the Xbox Adaptive Controller, but its newest offering is built for players with limited mobility in mind.

Gaming

Steam has one big problem with its smallest games

A Steam library filled with custom artwork.

Perhaps the greatest advancement in game development in recent years is the ease of access for the average person to start making a game. This has lowered the barrier of entry to the point where creators of almost any skill level can get their games on a major platform; however, the platforms themselves have not adapted to accommodate the overwhelming amount of content added each day. It's reached the point where the most prominent digital storefronts -- PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam -- are so saturated with new games on a daily basis that even great games can get buried and lost forever.

Excluding AAA games with massive PR and marketing budgets, every other game looking to get a shred of attention at launch is playing a rigged game of roulette with its success. We've hit a critical mass with the number of games coming out where the cream no longer rises to the top based on quality alone. As we approach an all-digital (or at least primarily digital) future, storefronts need to solve this discoverability problem sooner rather than later. It isn't an issue of there being too many games, but the fact that the right games aren't able to reach their target audience.
15 minutes of fame
When Braid was first released in 2008, there were only a total of 242 releases on Steam for that entire year. Fast forward to 2024 -- which still has a quarter of the year left -- and there have already been 10,862 game releases. That's an average of almost 50 games per day thus far. Because storefronts like the PSN and Xbox have remained largely unchanged in the intervening years, Braid: Anniversary Edition was released and almost immediately pushed off the new releases pages.

Gaming

One of the PS5’s best exclusives is coming to Xbox, and it’s still great

Key art for Kena: Bridge of Spirits.

There has been a lot of talk this year about Xbox console exclusives like Hi-Fi Rush, As Dusk Falls, and Sea of Thieves going multiplatform and being readily available on the PlayStation 5 as a result. For once, we're seeing that process work the other way around.

Next week, Ember Labs will release Kena: Bridge of Spirits on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. This game has a reputation as being one of the best-looking PS5 exclusives. Having gone hands-on with its Xbox Series X port, I can say that Kena: Bridge of Spirits is just as good as it's ever been on the new platform. If you never had a chance to try Kena: Bridge of Spirits because you don't own a PS5, this Xbox port gives you the perfect excuse to check out this memorable adventure.