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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

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

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

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: 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 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

30 Years of Play Time Logged into Battlefield 1943

Battlefield 1943 has generated much more interest than DICE ever thought it would. When the game was released, the servers were assaulted by so many potential players that connections were incredibly slow, lag was incredibly high and the game was pretty much unplayable for a short while.DICE quickly stepped in to add...

15 July 2009
13:21 GMT

Battlefield 1943 So Successful, More Servers Are Needed

A lot of people were skeptical about DICE's decision to create and release Battlefield 1943, a game that would only be launched via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live for now, aimed at offering an experience similar to that of Battlefield 1942 while making it easier for players to get into the game and do dam...

10 July 2009
04:40 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

No Beta for Battlefield 1943, Trial Coming

DICE, the Electronic Arts studio in charge of the various incarnations of the Battlefield franchise, is saying that it plans to offer a trial version of Battlefield 1943, the multiplayer shooter that will be released during summer on the Xbox Live Arcade service and on the PlayStation Network.DICE is stating that the...

23 June 2009
15:11 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

Dead Space and Mirror's Edge Will Be Seen as Successful

Electronic Arts seems to be still affected by the rather disappointing sales that Dead Space and Mirror's Edge, two new intellectual properties that were well received by reviewers, registered in the Christmas sales period. But the company believes that it has done the right thing creating these two games and th...

5 March 2009
04:25 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

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 Released by April, 1943 Coming in 2010

DICE seems to be one of the most important development studios for Electronic Arts at the moment. The company has already said that it plans to create a new Battlefield: Bad Company title based on the same Frostbite engine but with more destruction, which is set to arrive in 2010, and Mirror's Edge 2, a sequel t...

9 February 2009
03:07 GMT

First Details Revealed about Battlefield: Bad Company 2

DICE has announced the first details related to Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the game confirmed as coming in 2010 by Electronic Arts. The development studio put out a press release detailing the new elements in the second game in the series that began in 2008 with a fun but limited adventure, which has been reviewed b...

6 February 2009
16:31 GMT

Weekend Reading: Breaking Faith in Mirror's Edge

I like Mirror's Edge because it is first person and allows you to run really, really fast across a future city of white and red. It's a dystopia a gamer can love.The sense of freedom in the game is a direct result of the fact that Mirror's Edge is first person. It feels a bit weird at first but the sen...

31 January 2009
05:41 GMT

Weekend Reading: Mirror's Edge in Third-Person View

Mirror's Edge is one of the most innovative games that were launched last year. It strayed away from the gritty, realistic and, most of all, gray surroundings from almost every other game that appeared alongside it, e.g. Gears of War 2, Resistance 2, etc, and brought us a city filled with vibrant colors and lush...

31 January 2009
04:01 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

Here Are the Mirror's Edge PC Requirements

Mirror's Edge has been hyped up to be a truly innovative title which would take the first person game genre to a whole new height in terms of gameplay, design and interactivity with the environment surrounding the player. It puts the player in the running shoes of a character named Faith, a courier in a futurist...

9 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Mirror's Edge Will Receive New Time-Trial Maps

Mirror's Edge is definitely an innovative title, which brings a lot of new things to the already saturated first-person game segment. It places you in the sports shoes of a girl named Faith, who is a runner, a type of courier who delivers packages by crossing the rooftops of buildings in a futuristic dystopia, w...

5 December 2008
03:27 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

Mirror's Edge PC Version Gets PhysX Support

Mirror's Edge is clearly one of the most innovative games this holiday season, promising to bring a lot of new features that were never before explored by any other game. Placing the players in the sports shoes of Faith, a runner who transports different kinds of cargo on the roofs of buildings in a totalitarian...

21 November 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

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

Impressions: Mirror's Edge

Mirror's Edge is a game created by DICE, but it's not a shooter and guns are peripheral to the experience. It is all about moving as fast and as smooth as possible in the environment and the demo promises a really innovative and interesting game.You start by going through a tutorial which teaches you the ba...

3 November 2008
22:31 GMT

Two Pigs Pass for iPhone Release

THQ Wireless has announced Pass The Pigs, the iPhone version of the popular dice game. Playable on an iPod touch as well, Pass The Pigs has players winning points by throwing two model pigs across a casino-style table.Surely you're already sold on the short description but this piece really calls for more detail...

28 October 2008
15:11 GMT

Mirror's Edge Will Be a Trilogy of Titles

Mirror's Edge is going to be a very interesting and innovative title, promising to bring free running on the roofs of very tall buildings while evading the authorities. The whole action is set to take place in a future dystopian city, where all of its residents are being tightly watched, and only runners, specia...

15 October 2008
19:01 GMT

Mirror's Edge Remix Album Goes on Sale in November

Mirror's Edge is going to be an extremely interesting game. Set to occur in a future dystopian city, where all of the residents are being tightly watched, and only runners and special couriers can walk freely, jumping from building to building to deliver their cargo. The main character is Faith, a young girl wh...

8 October 2008
02:38 GMT

On November 11 Dance on the Mirror's Edge

Publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE are officially announcing that Mirror's Edge, the futuristic free running game, will surely be launched on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on November 11. We know that a PC version of the game is now still in development and EA says that it should arrive later in t...

22 September 2008
04:05 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

Magic Dice 1.5.3 Enhances Visuals

Yenko has updated its addictive Dice game to version 1.5.3. The update addresses a visual bug with artwork in setup and score screens. Magic Dice is based on a popular dice game that consists of 13 rounds, at the end of which the player with the highest score is the winner. Magic Dice is "a 5 of a kind game for 1 of ...

5 September 2008
14:11 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

System Specifications Released for Mirror's Edge

As you can see from the amount of coverage I've devoted to the title, I am pretty excited about the release of Mirror's Edge, the free running game that DICE is developing for Electronic Arts.    This particular piece of information had slipped under my radar last week, but it seems that...

3 September 2008
06:14 GMT

Mirror's Edge Features Time Trial Mode

Mirror's Edge is just getting better and better. DICE, best known for their Battlefield games, have taken on the almost impossible task of creating a free running game set in a utopian city which features very little to no shooting and also puts you in charge of the female characters. Initially, a lot of people ...

29 August 2008
04:03 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

Battlefield Bad Company Gets Conquest

Battlefield: Bad Company, the DICE game that Electronic Arts released earlier this summer, has attracted a lot of attention as it is one of the most important revenue sources for Electronic Arts in the first financial quarter of the year.Being financially successful usually means more attention, so the title is now g...

5 August 2008
18:06 GMT

Bad Company Sales Boost Electronic Arts Profits

Electronic Arts is saying that the first quarter of the year has seen it double its sales to more than 800 million dollars. The best sold games were the recently launched Battlefield Bad Company from DICE and the UEFA EURO 2008 football sim, which sold well because of the European Championship.Losses were reported as...

31 July 2008
03:17 GMT

The Reason Why Mirror's Edge Is Not Open-World

Mirror's Edge has so far managed to impress mainly through its slick visual style and through the way it aimed to turn parkour into a viable gameplay mechanic. DICE, best known for its series of Battlefield games, which just received a new addition with Bad Company, is developing the game and Nick Channon, one o...

29 July 2008
19:06 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

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

Yahtzee Now Available on iTunes

There are three ways to win in this addictive game from Electronic Arts. You can either roll dice on your own, compete for the top score against the CPU, or go head to head with a friend. Download difficulty levels for added challenges. iTunes now hosts Milton Bradley's popular dice-poker game Yahtzee, iPod vers...

18 February 2008
07:56 GMT

Battlefield 3 Leaked Features List. Looks Legit

Yesterday, a PDF document containing a bunch of outlined features for Battlefield 3 appeared on the Internet. Guys over at digitalbattle.com said that the three page document looked like something that investors should receive by December, detailing basic features of the respective game. After numerous clarification ...

12 October 2007
06:08 GMT


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