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The Beta for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Is Not Canceled

With the PlayStation 3 beta testing for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 out there in the field, PC gamers were eagerly anticipating their own little sneak peak at the game. After all, the one thing DICE has pushed so much about the game is that, unlike Infinity Ward, it plans to fully support the PG gaming community and t...

27 November 2009
04:38 GMT

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Will Be a Proper PC Experience

DICE and its Battlefield Bad Company 2 are beginning to make a trend out of doing everything that Infinity Ward did with Modern Warfare 2, but in reverse. When IW said that it would remove dedicated servers, DICE jumped out and announced that it wouldn't, and when the MW2 servers got limited to 9 vs. 9, Bad Comp...

11 November 2009
04:09 GMT

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Gets PlayStation 3 Beta on November 19

DICE, as the developer, and Electronic Arts, as the publisher, have announced that they plan to release a multiplayer beta of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 exclusively on the PlayStation 3 home gaming console from Sony starting with November 19.All the players who are interested in getting a place on the beta program an...

6 November 2009
14:01 GMT

Gamers Can't Spot IEDs to Save Their Lives

The attack on those people who play games, now a majority of the adult population in most developed countries, seems to be getting more and more bizarre. After being portrayed as being anti social and being blamed for every bit of violence in modern society, gamers are now said to be unable to actually detect roadsid...

30 October 2009
15:41 GMT

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Gets a Limited Edition Version

Battlefield: Bad Company developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts barely managed to escape being stoned to death by an angry mob of gamers, formed as a reaction to the decision the two companies made to charge for the in-game unlockable items. It looks like the mauling left some deep scars and made them remember ...

30 October 2009
12:01 GMT

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Will Have a Classic Multiplayer Setup

Infinity Ward managed to make more people angry with the introduction of IWNet than it ever thrilled with its amazing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Its decision to completely discard the traditional multiplayer setup for first-person shooters in favor of the matchmaking system has raised so many voices of discontent,...

27 October 2009
06:54 GMT

Battlefield 1943 PC Pre-Orders Now Available

As any gamer knows, there is no substitute for the mouse when it comes to fast-paced first-person online gaming. As much as the gamepad struggles to accommodate and the Wii-remote could improvise and make do, they just don't offer enough precision. And Battlefield 1943 is finally going to put the mouse to good u...

5 October 2009
10:01 GMT

DICE Founder Unveils Junk: Battles

Three videogaming veterans have banded together to create a new development studio, called Antic Entertainment, and have already announced that their first videogame will be a real time action strategy title experienced in a free-to-play model, called Junk: Battles.The three founders of Antic are Fredrik Lijegren, wh...

28 September 2009
03:38 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Major Update

The cartoon-ish, free online shooter Battlefield Heroes needed a little pick me up, so developer Electronic Arts Digital Illusions CE AB, or DICE like they like to be called, plans a huge update. Entitled Heroes of the Fall, the new project hasn't received an official release date, but it's probably somewhe...

22 September 2009
13:51 GMT

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Deploying onto Consoles and PC on March 2

Electronic Arts is a big publisher in the gaming industry, owning a lot of studios where talented teams are working with many famous brands for the large corporation. An example of such a thing is DICE, which is working almost exclusively with the Battlefield brand. One of the upcoming results of the Scandinavian st...

20 August 2009
15:01 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Already Raking In the Money

Electronic Arts is one of the biggest publishers in the gaming industry and has made a name for itself by shamelessly releasing yearly iterations of its core franchises like Need For Speed, FIFA or Madden NFL and charging gamers full price even though the titles didn't bring any new and important things. But in...

18 August 2009
13:11 GMT

Battlefield 1943 Is Record Breaking, Registers Over 600,000 Downloads

Electronic Arts' Battlefield franchise, handled by its DICE studio, is one of the most popular first person shooter series in the world. While we have seen full-fledged installments, the franchise is now sharing its brand with smaller and simpler titles, like Battlefield Heroes. But one of the latest titles to ...

27 July 2009
11:01 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Reaches 1 Million Players

There are a lot of trends these days in the video game industry, with one of the most interesting ones being free-to-play titles, which are endorsed by ads and/or microtransactions. Electronic Arts is the most recent company to try this model, in its latest Battlefield Heroes downloadable game. The title, which has ...

16 July 2009
02:25 GMT

Analyst Says Electronic Arts Is Ripe for a Takeover

Electronic Arts was once considered the biggest videogame publisher in the world. Many saw it as a soulless entity focused on squeezing money out of sequels and as opposed to innovation. Now, the above description could be more suited to the new behemoth in town, Activision Blizzard, and Electronic Arts could even be...

28 May 2009
17:31 GMT

Battlefield: Heroes Closed Beta Impressions

Free-to-play games are extremely popular these days because they don't require the gamer to make any purchases, thus saving money for full-fledged titles, but also because they give companies a chance to make money through various other ways like ads and microtransactions. That is what Electronic Arts had in mi...

18 April 2009
03:21 GMT

Bad Company 2 Gets Demoed, More Serious This Time Around

We already knew that one of the Battlefield-branded games that DICE would be working on in the following period was Bad Company 2. But the details regarding the videogame were scarce so it was nice to see Electronic Arts officially unveil the game, showing a walkthrough of one single-player mission and some more deta...

31 March 2009
18:01 GMT

Battlefield Developers Say They're Not Going Casual

A lot of developers have created their own identity through the games they made. Such is the case with Digital Illusions CE, or DICE as it is known to fans, the creator of the famous Battlefield shooter franchise and, more recently, Mirror's Edge. The Electronic Arts-owned company has just announced two new titl...

17 February 2009
02:24 GMT

How Soldiers Keep Cool Under Fire

Many battles throughout history have been waged against all possible odds by armless and unprepared men, who in the end managed to vanquish their opposition and win the confrontation. In several of these cases, people have always wondered how is it that some soldiers or warriors are so cool under pressure that they c...

16 February 2009
06:38 GMT

Wiimotes Control Robots on the Battlefield

Nintendo, with its Wii console, has managed to capture a vast segment of the market in all the countries it was deployed to, mainly due to the fact that the controls on its remote-controllers, the Wiimotes, are very intuitive and make for a pleasant game play. Now, the US military is looking into them as a novel way ...

20 December 2008
04:12 GMT

Battlefield Multiplayer Maps Free on Xbox Live

DICE is announcing having released the long named Battlefield: Bad Company Community Choice Pack on Xbox Live. The pack is free to download and is basically made up of four single player maps that have been adapted by the company to be playable in multiplayer.Two of the maps themselves were picked through a vote of t...

11 November 2008
15:31 GMT

Battlefield: Bad Company Gets Patch and New Maps

Publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE are announcing a host of new stuff that is aimed at extending the life of the multiplayer component of Battlefield: Bad Company, which has proven to be very interesting to gamers.The really big news is that EA has decided to give out codes that can unlock three of the five...

12 September 2008
05:34 GMT

Battlefield: Bad Company

The first Battlefield games, as developed by DICE, were pretty much multiplayer affairs, very well suited for matches which employed well rehearsed team tactics. After Battlefield 2142 was launched, DICE quietly began working on Battlefield: Bad Company, only giving away the fact that their next project was likely t...

5 September 2008
09:06 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Is Basically Fully Playable

Ben Cousins, one of the top men at DICE, has stated that his company's big online shooter, which also happens to be basically free, Battlefield Heroes, will not benefit from the big release which AAA titles are getting in today's videogame industry. He says the very nature of the game makes it eas...

27 August 2008
19:52 GMT

Dance on the Mirror's Edge

The guys that brought you the Battlefield series are working on something entirely different. Maybe they were traumatized by the levels of violence in their multiplayer shooter. Or maybe they want to use the relative freedom they now have in Electronic Arts, thanks to the success of their multiplayer shooter, to try ...

3 March 2008
02:51 GMT


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