Wargaming shuts down its fairly new game Steel Hunters and laying off stuff... the game lived in beta since April 2, 2025.

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Wargaming is switching to modern tanks? The game used to be called Project Cold War as working title is how WoT Heat.

IMO: don't make so much blur, bloom, and aberrations. It's a multiplayer game, we need to SEE ENEMIES. Thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VXeTK3-lMA
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Wargaming just released World of Tanks Heat, a hero-shooter but you're a tank. Good part: it's at least getting some traction (they were running a marketing campaign for half a year to collect wishlists).

And almost the same as with their recently failed robot game Steel Hunters, the reviews are negative. Because both games were packed with content 2-3 years before the release and then it was cut out before the release to make "updates" out of it.

That's not how you make a modern Live-Service game, unfortunately. The most passionate fans, the advocates and ambassadors mock Wargaming for it. They spread the word, but a bad one.

And the game crashes a lot (server connection issues, the client fails with and without visible errors, etc).

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Oh, there's the overview by IGN:
(Not from the Cuphead fella)

The video is sponsored and basically "read what PR team sent to us". But it's always interesting to see how the company sees and positions itself.

IMO, tanks are not trendy to be played by casual audience and tank-fans are passionate about stats, real-world references, and simulation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uVA6Gpo4nk
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That wasn't on my 2026 game industry bingo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ePa6MU2sE0
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