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Battlefield Heroes Gets Heroes of the Fall Update

Electronic Arts has announced that it plans to release a new update for Battlefield Heroes, called Heroes of the Fall, set to arrive on September 30. All those who have downloaded the free-to-play videogame and plan to play it should download the update, which comes packed with a fresh map, yet to be named.EA is also...

29 September 2009
03:07 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 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

Battlefield Heroes Is Finally Launched

Electronic Arts has officially confirmed that Battlefield Heroes has been successfully “soft launched.” This basically means that the publisher considers the game to be feature complete and that no critical changes will be made to the gameplay mechanics.Battlefield Heroes has been in development for quite...

26 June 2009
12:41 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

Quake Live Open Beta Goes Online Tomorrow

id Software is saying that the beta for Quake Live will begin on February 24, which is tomorrow. Basically, players will not be able to get a look at the Quake III-based shooter if they are interested in it. The game is set to run on low end PCs, aiming to bring quick, intense first person shooters back into prominen...

23 February 2009
04:28 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Beta Has Started, Here's How You Can Get In

Electronic Arts has seen a pretty big change in strategy in the last few years, as it has moved on from exploiting franchises on a yearly basis, like Need For Speed or the sports ones, Madden or FIFA, and has spread its reach to almost all genres of games. One such category is the free-to-play one, which is rapidly ...

12 February 2009
03:30 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Beta Ready to Re-Open

DICE has been pretty busy lately and, weirdly, none of its releases or ongoing projects was connected to the Battlefield multiplayer series that made the developer famous. Sure, Battlefield: Bad Company had the name, but it was primarily a single player experience and quite an enjoyable one.DICE's next project w...

22 January 2009
16:11 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Will Attract the MMO Crowd, Says Developer

Online games are certainly popular these days, and, because they focus on cooperative or team play, they will continue to deliver a great experience to gamers. Titles such as Team Fortress 2 or MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) like World of Warcraft have shown that you don't necessarily ...

5 January 2009
13:01 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Developer Talks About Game Modes

We have recently seen quite a big increase in online games, which focus on co-operative play and show that a singleplayer mode isn't something mandatory in today's world. Titles like Valve's Team Fortress 2 are extremely popular and will certainly stay that way for quite some time.But Electronic Arts w...

19 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Receives Major Changes

Electronic Arts' DICE studio has certainly been very busy around this time of the year. Although it is widely known as the creator of the Battlefield franchise of FPSs (First Person Shooters), the studio has also worked on the recently launched Mirror's Edge, which showed that, in terms of creativity, the d...

2 December 2008
09:01 GMT

Electronic Arts Delays Battlefield Heroes

DICE, the developer behind the browser-only multiplayer shooter, is announcing that it plans to take down the currently running closed beta version of the game in order to be able to make some significant changes to how it plays. This means that the launch of the game, which was initially scheduled for the summer of ...

17 November 2008
06:21 GMT

PC Gaming Alliance Hates Videogame Pirates

Randy Stude, the president of the PC Gaming Alliance, says that the most important threat to the PC videogames industry is rampant piracy. His statement comes as more and more developers state that consoles are a better development medium. Recently, Ubisoft delayed the PC version of EndWar, saying that the console v...

22 October 2008
03:38 GMT

DICE Working on Three Other Battlefield Games

DICE is getting ready to let loose its latest creation, which some say it's also its best, the Battlefield series title called Bad Company. And the same company is working, under the guide of publisher Electronic Arts, on the free to play multiplayer title Battlefield: Heroes, which forgoes the realism and the t...

25 June 2008
18:06 GMT

Battlefield Heroes Producer Dishes Out Details

Ben Cousins is senior producer of Battlefield Heroes and he talks about how careful observation of the South Korean games market leads to the free-to-play model being adopted for Battlefield Heroes and about how the developers came up with a cartoon look for the MMO game. Cousins took some time to sit down with Gamas...

3 April 2008
06:42 GMT

Battlefield Heroes, FREE Game Coming From EA!

Well, this one really seems strange - EA and the "free game" notion seem to have nothing in common. But we should use the past tense starting now, since the giants plan to announce the development of a new game in the Battlefield series that will be distributed as a free download, according to The New York Times.As ...

21 January 2008
04:22 GMT


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