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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EA Announces Two New Battlefield Titles
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 villages.” It will use the same Frostbite engine as the first, and appear on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 when it debuts this coming winter.


