14 DAY TRIAL // It’s the season of delays in the gaming industry. We’ve already lost count of how many games have been delayed this month already, and things don’t seem to improve as we’re getting closer to the end of the year, quite the opposite.
The latest game to make it to the long list of titles that have been delayed this year is the highly-anticipated Battlefield 2042. Publisher EA has just revealed that Battlefield 2042 will no longer launch on October 22 as previously announced. Instead, the game is now set to launch worldwide on November 19, which isn’t that bad considering other games have been delayed for many months.
“We’ve made the decision to shift the launch of Battlefield 2042. The game will now be released worldwide on November 19th, 2021. Building the next generation of Battlefield during a global pandemic has created unforeseen challenges for our development teams. Given the scale and scope of the game, we had hoped our teams would be back in our studios together as we move towards launch. With the ongoing conditions not allowing that to happen safely, and with all the hard work the teams are doing from home, we feel it is important to take the extra time to deliver on the vision of Battlefield 2042 for our players,” explained DICE Studio GM Oskar Gabrielson.
As far as the open beta goes, that might have slipped to October, but an official announcement is expected to arrive later this month. Even though there’s no confirmation yet, it makes sense for EA to move the open beta from September to October, but let’s way for the publisher’s statement to find out when exactly we’ll be able to jump into the action.
Meanwhile, Dying Light 2 and Horizon Forbidden West, two triple A games that were previously confirmed for release this year have been pushed onto early 2022. The same goes for Total War: Warhammer III, WWE 2K22, and Life Is Strange: Remastered Collection.