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DICE has revealed details on a few new multiplayer maps set to appear in Battlefield 3. Operation Metro will be familiar to some, and Tehran Highway’s distinctive atmosphere looks to have been the setting of previous trailers, but DICE has served up some interesting design notes from one of the game’s level designers, Niklas Åstrand. …

In a bid to show exactly how user feedback from the beta is influencing development, Battlefield 3 developer DICE has detailed ten multiplayer beta issues flagged up by players and detailed exactly how it’s going about fixing them. The problems mentioned on the official blog post range from the squad issues and kill cam behaviour …

Battlefield Bad Company 2 was well received and has sold millions of copies, but DICE executive producer Patrick Bach says he only sees faults with the game. “I don’t know why, but I always feel ashamed about the games I’m involved in making,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “I can’t even bring myself to …

Battlefield 3 is already looking amazing but when it comes to the Battlefield 3 beta you can squeeze an extra 38 percent if you know how (and have a NVIDIA graphics card). Just download NVIDIA’s 285.38 beta drivers, which are optimised for Battlefield 3 itself. Don’t just take our word for it either, Rendering Architect …

Pre-orders for Battlefield 3 have surpassed 1.5 million units, according to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia. That’s 250,000 more than the 1.25 million EA CFO Eric Brown reported earlier this month, which he said was already “well ahead of its predecessor title, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, in regards to pre-orders in the same number of …

DICE has released a “candidate” for the next game client update for BFBC2 PC. If this is deemed good enough, it will become the official patch, and will be pushed out to everyone. For now though, the patch is still in Beta. And you are welcome to try it. The company had this to say …

DICE have revealed that Battlefield 3 players will be treated to ten times as many unlocks as they were in Bad Company 2. That’s according to a post on the Battlefield 3 blog, which details all the different bits and pieces fans will be able to snap up during their time with the shooter. “Battlefield …

Frank Gibeau, president of Electronic Arts’ EA Games label, believes Battlefield 3 is a “flat out superior” product to blockbuster FPS Call of Duty. Speaking on an earnings call last night (via Seeking Alpha), he said of the DICE shooter: “The game is built on our brand-new Frostbite 2 Engine. It takes the battle to …

EA’s released a launch trailer for Battlefield Play4Free. The free-to-play title, which supports 32-player online battles, is released today. EA says: “Battlefield Play4Free delivers an endlessly entertaining experience on the PC that combines the most popular maps from Battlefield 2 with the popular classes and powerful weapons of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, all rendered with …

Battlefield Play4Free launches in a few days on April 4th, but if you are a Battlefield: Bad Company 1 / 2, or Battlefield 1943 player you can start playing right now. Simply register on the Battlefield Play4Free website with the same EA account you used in these games. Battlefield Play4Free is gearing up towards launch …

The campaign of 2011 FPS Battlefield 3 will be 12 hours long. That’s according to a new interview with Karl Magnus Troedsson, in which the DICE general manager says that BF3′s tone will be less “humorous and slapstick” than Battlefield: Bad Company 2. When a journalist from Gameon.net asked Troedesson why DICE included a “lengthy, …

DICE general manager, Karl Magnus Troedsson, has said the developer regrets its past neglect of the PC community, and that it’s intent on making up it with Battlefield 3. “I felt that we had, maybe, set PC aside a bit too much,” he told Shacknews. “I’ve said this publicly before, we were very unhappy that …

EA will launch the open beta for Battlefield Play4Free on April 4th, the company revealed today. The company said that 600,000 have already signed up for the in-progress closed beta – check out some footage of that below. Some players will get early access to the open beta, according to PC Gamer. If you’ve played …

DICE says it’s “learnt its lesson” following Battlefield: Bad Company 2′s sparse DLC schedule – and it won’t make the same mistakes with just-announced Battlefield 3. Speaking in the latest issue of US retail mag Game Informer, DICE exec producer Patrick Bach acknowledged that not releasing a new map pack for six months saw the …

DICE has “officially cancelled” the PC versions of Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Onslaught. Studio general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson made the announcement in a post on the Battlefield blog, explaining that the “hard decision” was made so that DICE could better focus its efforts on Battlefield 3. Here’s his full post: “There …