World of Warplanes Message Board

This may be the most inexplicable use of a jaunty, upbeat modern rock soundtrack in human history.

Wargaming.net's approach to World of Warplanes is very similar to World of Tanks. You hop in to competitive matches quickly and take part in fast battles, hop out to repair and upgrade, then jump right back into a fight. There are no strips of runway in World of Warplanes, and no opportunities to land or take off. Instead, as soon as you're in the sky as soon as a match begins...

Taking the free-to-play dogfight to the air is WoW, known globally as World of Warplanes. The skyborne sister to World of Tanks has finally decided to stop being shy and graced us with some in-game footage. I’m particularly taken with the mix of old and new flight beasts, and the notion of flying in formation with friends under bridges. I’m not one to ignore a massive, immobile, heavy structure when I’m falling through the sky in an unstable tube of thin metal.(more…)

World of Warplanes, the next game from Wargaming.net, creators of World of Tanks, has entered a Global Alpha. Testers from North America, Russia and Europe can now jump into two different arenas and access over 20 planes...

To the skies, brave few, to the skies. Wargaming.net, developers of World of Tanks have just fuelled up the global alpha for World of Warplanes so they’ll presumably be hoping the brave many sign up so that they can test the capacity of the blue yonder and receive plenty of radio chatter feedback. If you fancy yourself a fighter ace, you can sign up here if you are in Europe, here if you are in Russia or here if you happen to be in America. The game will offer a full career mode and covers several eras beginning in the 1930s. Jim spoke with the developers at the end of last year and I shall cheekily direct you toward that conversation if you desire more information.

Oh this could get awkward. Wargaming.net recently announced World Of Warplanes to join World Of Tanks and the forthcoming World Of Battleships. But it seems another MMO already had a very similar idea. The imaginatively titled World Of Planes from Gaijin Entertainment was first announced in April, and has a debut trailer out today. In a world where you can’t have The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Scrolls without trouble, I’m impressed that this one hasn’t kicked off yet. (Let alone Blizzard getting involved.) Also, World Of Planes’ trailer is pretty.

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Sure, right now if you say "WoW" when addressing gamers they'll think you're talking about World of Warcraft. But, in a year or so when Wargaming.net releases the follow up to its super popular World of Tanks, that could all change. World of Warplanes brings the same style of gameplay from World of Tanks, allowing players to take the sky in a game that's shooting for something between being a simulation and an arcade title. The best part? It's totally free...

Skybound aviation-based sequel to World Of Tanks is gaining some momentum now, as the World Of Warplanes website appears. It just contains a snippet of information and a bunch of screenshots so far, but we’ll be expecting to learn much more about the game come GamesCom next week. For my part, however, I am not expecting this to be quite as outrageously popular as World Of Tanks, with its millions of sign-ups. I think it’ll do okay, but there was something just right about a purely tank-based game, which I am not sure will be true of air-war…

London, UK, Paris, FR and San Francisco, CA - Wargaming.net announces the launch of the website for the recently revealed flight combat action MMO World of Warplanes. Set in the Golden Age of military aviation, World of Warplanes continues the armored warfare theme marked in the highly-acclaimed World of Tanks and will throw players into a never-ending tussle for air dominance...

London, UK and San Francisco, CA - Wargaming.net announced today details on economic system for the upcoming flight combat MMO World of Warplanes. The new game recently announced at E3, will have the same economic profile as the highly-acclaimed World of Tanks, with Gold, Credits, and Experience as main currency to gain and spend for continued advancements...

World of Tanks kind of took everyone by surprise. Under its silly name lies a surprisingly tactile, tactical and complex combat game. With every shot taken by a tank, dozens of variables were taken into account -- did it hit its enemy at an angle (increasing the chance of deflection)? Did it hit the...