The game is being actively developed by a crew of freelance software developers and artists as well as actively tested by members of the community. The game’s concept is based on the E-novel Chasseur de bots by Fabrice Demurger. Thus one of it’s most important recipes is the ideology of cyberpunk which is achieved by cartoon-like graphics coupled with cel-shading as well as mixing dark, flashy and dirty textures.

War§ow’s sourcecode is open source and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is built upon Qfusion, an advanced modification of the original Quake II engine which id Software put under the GPL in 2001.

While War§ow is still early beta software, it is accepted as a competition-worthy game by several big online-leagues such as the Cyberathlete Amateur League, the Electronic Sports League and ClanBase. Not only big leagues accepted War§ow as a supported game, but also specialized War§ow-leagues and -cups emerged around the world. Well-known examples are Bamboocha, a Europe-based War§ow Duel Tourney, and ESW : WARSOW, a Japanese War§ow cup.

Additionally, War§ow has been featured on the German TV-channel GIGA Television several times, namely in GIGA eSports and it’s sub-shows Skill Sunday and Free For All and the Pay TV ITV station GIGA 2, also produced by Turtle Entertainment.