Electronic Arts has announced that Battlefield 1943, its latest WWI-themed first person shooter from subsidiary studio Dice, will launch as a download-only game on Xbox Live (on July 8) and PlayStation Network (on July 9) for just $15. The first-person shooter builds on the award-winning Battlefield 1942 and takes players into four Pacific battles (Wake Island, Iwo Jima, Coral Sea, and Guadalcanal). And the game comes with a community challenge for social gamers: to work together on the Coral Sea battle to reach 43 million kills across both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
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F.E.A.R. Coming to PS3
Sierra Entertainment announced today that its award-winning first-person shooter First Encounter Assault Recon—a.k.a. F.E.A.R.—will ship for Sony’s forthcoming PlayStation 3 console in November 2006. Developed by Monolith Productions along with Day 1 Studios, F.E.A.R. combines stylized first-person shooter mayhem and spine-tingling paranormal encounters and close-quarters action. Many screenshots from the coming PS3 edition follow.
F.E.A.R. is already available for PCs (rated M, natch); a version is also in development for Xbox 360 consoles.
Ubisoft Wants to Haze You
Ubisoft and video game developer Free Radical, known for their work on the TimeSplitter series, yesterday at E3 announced the development of a new first person shooter called Haze which is scheduled for an early 2007 release. Platforms which it is being developed for include the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC.
The storyline of Haze, said the two companies, is set twenty five years in the future and finds governments having sourced out their military operations to private corporations. Players take on the role of Jake Carpenter, a new soldier in the private Mantel army dispatched to a South American country to help put down a rebellion which isn’t quite what it seems. Features of the game include “stunning visuals, hyper-intelligent AI and realistic physics†as well as advanced, destructive weaponry and a variety of multiplayer modes.


