6, gamers started to notice the strange change, and began to complain on forums and the company's Facebook feed. Original focus tree showing Taiwan flags for ROC vehicle, and Chinese flags for PRC machines. The game was first released in August of 2013 and published by Tencent Games in China in April of 2014. Players utilize aircraft, tanks, and ships from various nations, with each war machine marked with the historically accurate flag of the country they were associated with in a given war. The game, which is a vehicular combat massively multiplayer online (MMO) game developed by Russian-owned Gaijin Entertainment, is a based on combined arms battles which are set from the end of WWI to the Cold war, with a particular emphasis on WWII. 6), Niche Gamer reported that the Taiwanese flags corresponding to military vehicles in the game have been removed and replaced with the flag of China in the game War Thunder. TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - The video game War Thunder, which is a game predicated on historical accuracy, last week suddenly and expectedly created multiple historical anachronisms by removing all the Taiwan flags from the vehicles in the game and erroneously replacing them with the banner of Communist China.