WWII MMO ‘War Thunder,’ DLC Included With Alienware Steam Machine at Launch

If you are thinking of buying a Steam Machine, you might want to check out this news. Gaijin Entertainment has announced that its MMO WWII online game, War Thunder is included in the anticipated Alienware Steam Machine Bundle at launch. As part of the Alienware Steam Machine Bundle, War Thunder players will also receive free downloadable content, which includes two premium vehicles. War Thunder, currently available for PC, PS4 and VR, has more than 10 million players worldwide and since its August 2013 Beta release, has consistently been ranked as one of the most popular games on Steam.

“Gaijin Entertainment continues to be at the forefront PC Gaming, from being one of the first major titles to successfully incorporate cross platform gameplay, to exploring both future technologies such as VR and AR, to our recently announced Dagor Engine 4.0 and its integration of NVIDIA GameWorks technologi es.  We look for partners who also are shaping the future, and the collaboration between Valve and Alienware has produced the logical next step in PC gaming. We are excited to be a part of the Alienware Steam Machine launch,” said Anton Yudintsev, CEO of Gaijin Entertainment.

War Thunder via the Alienware Steam Machine Bundle will come with two premium vehicles, the U.S. Army’s M18 Black Cat tank destroyer and the XP-38G Lightning fighter plane. During WWII, the M18 was widely recognized as one of the U.S. Army’s most efficient and deadly tanks that joined the Northern European and Italian theaters of war. The U.S. Army’s XP-38G Lightning fighter plane was a prototype that eventually become the P-38, which saw action during the Pacific Theater of Operations. These two vehicles join the more than 600 vehicles currently available, giving War Thunder the largest library of vehicles ever found in a video game sim.  Steam Achievements will be available at launch. For more info on the Alienware Steam Machine, check out their homepage.

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War Thunder is a free-to-play, cross-platform, massively multiplayer military masterpiece for PC, PS4, Mac, Linux and Android with more than ten million players worldwide, that allows players to fight their way across air and ground with access to over 600 of historically accurate planes and armored vehicles from WWII and Korean War. For more information, please visit http://www.warthunder.com .

SOURCE: Gaijin Entertainment Press Release