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Read More »DICE is considering a battle royale mode for the upcoming Battlefield V
EA shuts down the Revive Network Battlefield Community project
The publisher sends a takedown request over multiplayer servers keeping old Battlefield titles alive
Read More »Battlefield 1’s incursions mode could be a strong esports effort, but it’s not there yet
EA has courted the esports crowd for a long time, with squad modes like Deathmatch, Rush and Obliteration offering a smaller scale vision of Battlefield’s 64 man squabbles more suited to competition. Problem is, they’ve never really gained traction. Battlefield is a game about big fights: planes screaming overhead, tanks …
Read More »EA’s Madden NFL series moves to Frostbite engine
The series is the one of the last regular EA releases to be moved on to DICE's engine
Read More »Crystal Dynamics takes on Dead Space art lead as new Tomb Raider director
Ian Milham also helped head up Battlefield 4 and Hardline during his 10-plus years working at EA
Read More »EA: Titanfall 2 is Call of Duty’s true rival, not Battlefield
Call of Duty’s biggest competitor this Christmas is Titanfall, EA has told MCV @ Gamescom. EA’s CMO Chris Bruzzo said that Battlefield 1 may be the bigger game, but it is actually a very different beast Titanfall 2 is also being developed by Respawn, a company founded by former Infinity …
Read More »Ship Just Got Real: How Dark Souls, Battlefield and Angry Birds inspired sailing sim Naval Action
A hardcore RPG, triple-A shooter and casual mobile hit may not seem like the obvious muses for an ultra-realistic sailing simulator, yet these are the proven mechanics in which Naval Action grounds its complex historical accuracy. Game Labs captain Maxim Zasov teaches Develop the ropes
Read More »Battlefield TV series in development at Paramount
Battlefield is the latest game to be given the TV show treatment. Paramount Television and production company Anonymous Content, which recently worked on TV series The Knick, have acquired the rights of EA’s title, Variety reports. It’s actually not the first time that a Battlefield TV series has been announced …
Read More »The Big Game: Battlefield 1
If you ever needed a solid indication that consumers weren’t exactly satisfied with the state of the shooter genre, you need only look at the reaction to Battlefield 1 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare this year. The reveal trailer for the former, a first-person shooter set during World War …
Read More »Next Battlefield title called Battlefield 1, set in World War One
The next entry in EA’s Battlefield series is taking the franchise to World War One and will be hitting shelves this October. The new title – Battlefield 1 – is set for release on PS4, Xbox One and PC (via Origin) on October 21st. Players will be able to fight …
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