RCTiger.com: Real-time, Real-live Tank Warfare
by John Biggs on March 2, 2009


We received an email today telling us about RCTiger.com, a German website that lets you move little remote control tanks around a simulated battlefield. While I was quite skeptical at first, once I started the game I was taken aback at the fun I had running little Tiger tanks over miniature trees.

The system isn’t quite foolproof. The game runs from 10pm until midnight Munich time and there is apparently someone in a room watching these things so they don’t tip over or crash. You use the standard keyboard controls – ASDF – and press K to fire at the other tank. When you’re hit, the tank shakes around a little and lights up. We received a beta account to try it out and we even recorded a video of our adventure!

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