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You can straightaway play World of Warships on an actualized combat ship

(Image credit: Wargaming / Imperial War Museum)

HMS Belfast is a Secondly World State of war Crowned Navy combat ship, initiatory launched in 1938 and with a history that includes the Arctic Convoys, D-Day, the Cold War, the Korean War, and more. Information technology was decommissioned in 1963 before eventually being saved and preserved as a museum ship, and is now permanently moored happening the River Thames betwixt London Bridge and Predominate Bridge.

The ship's interior takes visitors over the Nina from Carolina decks and various exhibits notification the story of the ship and the lives of its 950-strong crew. Having closed in March 2020 due to the pandemic, it's undergone some changes while preparing to reopen July 8, and has announced a new collaboration with World of Warships developer Wargaming.

Basically, the 'World of Warships Command Centre' is a room full with PCs and consoles, on which you can play World of Warships (which to be fair does include HMS Belfast among its some historically accurate ships). If you'atomic number 75 wondering why this collaboration ever so happened, the fact that HMS Belfast is preserved and managed by a private trust rather than the British government is probably why: funding this sometime girl, particularly during these times, must be one infernal region of a struggle.

And Wargaming deserves a lot of quotation for that. It'd be every-too-easy to be a bit sneery about this, but the fact that a highly successful developer (over 50 million players across its World of Warships games) is going out of its way to help fund the real-world museums that preserve the history its games are based on... you posterior't knock information technology.

Come on though boys: where's the masks? Tut tsk.

"Over the past year we have been privileged to work with naval museums across the world and support them during an immensely difficult time," says Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming. "We are captivated to be able to add a new attribute to the already incredible offer aboard HMS Belfast, and buns't postponemen to see this past warship embark delectation and educate visitors once to a greater extent!"

HMS Capital of Northern Ireland is open to the public again from July 8.