Tag archive: battlefield

While the Xbox 360 is easily the most popular gaming console out there on the social interaction front, it's also more technologically limited than the PlayStation 3 with its Blu-ray drive and the high-capacity discs it supports. What fits onto one disc for a PS3 can span two or more on the Microsoft console. It's really no surprise to hear then that Battlefield 3, which Electronic Arts will release on October 25, will be coming to… Read More

Trouble's a-brewin' for Electronic Arts. The Battlefield 3 public beta launches today for one and all, following two days of early access availability to those who pre-ordered the game through EA's Origin store or purchased their Medal of Honor Limited Edition last year (which essentially meant buying the game new right around its launch). That was the plan, anyway. It seems that things did not proceed as some fans had hoped.… Read More

DICE and Electronic Arts will drop Battlefield 3 on October 25, and for many of us that's enough. Some people are already looking ahead though to what's coming next; to those people, DICE has a message for you: chill. “The business goals for us are not to release a game every year,” BF3 executive producer Patrick Bach said in an interview with GamerZines. “EA would never force us to release a game every year. I… Read More

It isn’t quite as sexy as its much anticipated older brother, Battlefield 3, but EA and DICE are banking that there is a strong and passionate audience that likes to combine online first-person shooters with the joyous word “free”. Announced last November, Battlefield Play4Free will follow the pattern set by DICE's other free to play title, Battlefield Heroes. Up to 32 users will jump online to play a version of the Battlefield game… Read More

EA thinks free games are the future. That is, as long as they are chock full of microtransactions–small payments gamers make to obtain upgrades or bonuses. Today, the publisher unveiled Battlefield Play4Free, a fully featured Battlefield title that will be free to download and play on PCs. The game is said to be a more realistic game than Battlefield 1943 with sandbox gameplay, 16 vehicles to destroy one another with, and 32-player maps.… Read More

Electronic Arts may have pushed some games back in the face of financial woes, but the Swedish-developed Battlefield franchise is apparently alive and kicking. On Thursday, the company announced Battlefield: Bad Company 2, along with a hold-over release: Battlefield 1943.   Like the first Bad Company, the second iteration will take place in modern times, tracking the B Company through “snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty… Read More

Video game über-publisher Electronic Arts has announced it is developing a new installment of its Battlefield first-person shooter combat franchise for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3: Battlefield: Bad Company. Bad Company is being developed in conjunction with Sweden's Digital Illusions (DICE) studio, and leverages the company's Frostbite game engine to power the game's single- and multi-player offerings. Bad Company… Read More

Electronic Arts and developer Digital Illusions yesterday announced plans for the next installment of the Battlefield franchise. Battlefield 2142, a first person shooter, will available for the PC this fall. In Battlefield 2142, the two companies said,

Electronic Arts and developer Digital Illusions today announced two

Electronic Arts yesterday said they'd ported over a Battlefield game to the Playstation 2 and Xbox video gaming systems. Called Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, it is available now for $49.99 and has a rating of T for Teen. Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, developed jointly by EA and Digital Illusions, puts players into modern day battles. The single player game highlights what EA calls the “Hotswapping” feature, which allows… Read More

Quote from the article at Blue's News: “Here's the list of mirrors and changes in the new version, which is heralded by the following announcement: “We listened to the community and we spent a lot of time going through the code with a fine tooth comb, fixing and optimizing this release as our main focus. DesertCombat should run better then ever in this release and map load times should be significantly better. This… Read More