Tank games are a blast. You roll around in a nigh-invincible metal behemoth running over obstacles, mowing down buildings, and taking potshots at the enemy. But there’s also a lot of great variety. Some games are fast-paced tactical battles, while others require that you manage mechanized minutiae. You might be in charge of a battalion, or on your own in a one-against-many battle where your greatest resource is your wits. From the ultra-realistic to the slightly crazy, you can find good tank games that mix armored warfare with the tactical or strategic gameplay you’re looking for. And, of course, plenty where you just get to blow stuff up. 1. World of Tanks This juggernaut of mechanized warfare is the absolute king of tank games. World of Tanks has well over 100 million registered players, and set at least two Guinness world records for the largest number of concurrent players on a single server. We reviewed it all the way back in 2013, and it’s only gotten bigger and
When Obsidian Entertainment boss Feargus Urquhart told us before the Games Developer Conference that the big new game his studio was working on was "something very different", he really wasn't kidding. Here's a studio known for Knights of the Old Republic 2, for Fallout: New Vegas and South Park: The Stick of Truth. Here's a studio that crowd-funded Pillars of Eternity to the tune of $4m, because if anyone could deliver on the promise of an Infinity Engine-style role-playing game, Obsidian could. "Everybody who has tried to guess," Urquhart said, "and that's quite a few people - no one's even come close. I'm going to be very interested to see what people think of it!" It turned out to be Armored Warfare, a free-to-play tank MMO. And unlike Skyforge - the other My.com-funded MMO Obsidian is helping with - Armored Warfare has actually been built at Obsidian. Skyforge is made by Allods Team, and Obsidian is aiding Western lo