I know that there are several fans of the Battlefield series that wondered if there would ever be a proper PC sequel Battlefield 2. After all, DICE has been concentrating on console development of late, with the release of Battlefield: Bad Company last year, and the imminent release of Battlefield 1943 on PlayStation Network and XBox Live, not to mention the targeted release later this year of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Well, it’s time for a big sigh of relief. According to G4, development of Battlefield 3 has been officially confirmed.
It seems that John Pleasants, Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts, had the following to say in a presentation at the William Blair Growth Stock Conference, confirming that he’s seen Battlefield 3,
“I’ve had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE in Sweden and was highly impressed by the way the team is working on that product. Of course, that’s not [coming out] in the fiscal year, but that is a product that is looking very good.”
So, no worries, PC shooter fans. The penultimate military shooter is indeed headed back to your platform of choice. It looks like it won’t arrive until later in 2010, but there is light on the horizon at last. Here’s hoping that it hews closer to the line of Battlefield: Vietnam, my personal favorite of all the Battlefield titles.
I’ve been a fan of the Battlefield series since BF1942 launched way back in 2002. I have to admit to being at least moderately excited about the upcoming release of Battlefield 1943.
Sure, it’s just a downloadable game for consoles, but BF: Bad Company was a blast, and BF1943 is based on the same Frostbite engine. Sure, it’s just a remake of some classic maps for BF 1942, but they were great maps!
Anyway, on the back of this month’s gamesTM magazine (a German games publication) you can find an ad for Battlefield 1943. In that ad, it lists the release date for the game as June 25 on Playstation Network and XBox Live.
Here’s hoping that’s entirely accurate. You can find that ad after the break.
After a renewed start we had an interruption these last few weeks but rest assured Filefront is still hosting and promoting all the great user created and hosted content contributed to us. We return with a double length post highlighting some great mods and files for quite a few outstanding games including usual suspects like Half-Life 2, the Battlefield games and of course one of my favorite series “that I am really no good at yet still enjoy” – Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Highlights from this week’s column include mods for:
Doom III – Wrathchild Act I (not ROE compatible), Revised Alphalabs
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – A Provost of the Nine Divines, More Nord Beards
The Open File, Gaming Today’s feature piece on the news and interests of the FIleFront network of file sites returns this week after a long hiatus. In the spirit of great cooperation we’ve aligned with the producer of the Filefront Network Insider to provide user submitted news blogs and links to recently updated modification files and maps hosted among the various file communities.
The complete text of the Network Insider follows the break but here are some quick and dirty highlights for Gaming Today readers:
Star Trek: Legacy Files has an update from gdata on two Total Conversions for Bethesda’s Star Trek title: Resistances and Trek Battles 3.
IKS_Your_Moma also has an update on ST:Legacy mod Aftermath and its change from a full modification to a more add-on centered approach.
Battlefield 2 modders Experience World War II (XWW2) issued their fall status update and revealed that they’ve added a new modeler to the team as well as updating on two mapes – El Alamein and Crete.
Half-Life turns 10! Black Mesa, the team actively working to truely update and enhance the original Half-Life experience using the SOurce engine celebrates what Half-Life meant to them and shows some updated images from their re-imaginings.
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Soulstorm mod team HorusHeretic show off their updated Terminator models, a new Chaos lord unit: Greater Daemon Tzeentch, Lord of Change and announce opennings on their staff for animators and texturers to join the high crusade.
The Network Update also includes a number of links to modifications and maps for games like Company of Heroes, Battlefield 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
There’s a video review of the single-player storyline for Battlefield: Bad Company available on ChannelFlip. I know most gamers don’t buy Bad Company for the single player experience. For those days when your friends are all busy doing something productive with their lives, or you finally reach your breaking point and get fracked off with all the noobs online; there is a single-player option.
Form up you maggots!
Are you getting tired of the same old FPS cliches being trotted out time after time?
Well fear not: in Bad Company, the Battlefield experts have turned their hand to creating a single-player campaign which offers a refreshing and high quality take on the genre with great graphics, an interesting plot and non-cringeworthy script, and of course decent gun play to boot.
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