I’ll be perfectly honest, the idea for this piece came from the book Designing Games by Tynan Sylvester. Sylvester is one of my favorite developers; he worked on BioShock Infinite, admittedly my least favorite entry in the series, and then went on to found Ludeon Studios, the developers behind RimWorld. His book has little to do with the games he
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Dice announced its next Star Wars Battlefront 2 update, which launches on April 29, 2020, will be its last content update. It was also confirmed Dice plans to release the next Battlefield game next year. In a blog post, Creative Director Dennis Brännvall detailed everything coming to the next Star Wars Battlefront 2 update titled
Around 18 months after its release back in 2018, EA and DICE have today started talking about plans to end future content updates for the WWII shooter Battlefield 5. In a new blog post on EA’s website today, the team at DICE discussed what it has planned for Battlefield V in the coming months. For now, the
Star Wars Battlefront II launched in 2017, developed between DICE, Criterion Software, Motive Studios and published by EA. While its launch was a bit rocky, especially surrounding how the game handled loot and progression, changes were made that improved the experience. In a new video from Cinematic Captures, we can see how much the visuals
Unless you hold an incorrect opinion about the Metroid Prime series, the delay of the fourth installment probably sucked for you. Originally expected to hit the Nintendo Switch back in 2018; that never happened. It has been known for a while now that Retro Studios have been expanding their development team for the project after development
In an interview with Gamesindustry.biz, EA Motive’s Patrick Klaus says EA is becoming a different company that’s focusing on quality. “It feels like a different company, a company that’s very much focused on quality,” says Klaus. “That’s part of the reason that got me excited about coming back, really the number one priority is that
It has been almost two years since the more than controversial release of Star Wars Battlefront II. Since then, EA and developer DICE have tried to make up for their mistakes to players in the past with free updates and are seemingly doing that again with the game’s upcoming Celebration Edition. On December 5 Battlefront II will
EA’s financial results and prepared remarks regarding Q2 of the fiscal year have given us a fairly solid idea of what we can expect from them going forward. The publisher is doubling down on its successful sports titles and live services, though more remasters and even some new IP are also planned. In those prepared
EA Play is currently happening in Los Angeles and I was fortunate to get some hands-on time with Marita, one of the new maps coming to Battlefield V. After a quick ten or so minute battle, I can say that Battlefield veterans should be content with another smaller map coming to the game, but will
Battlefield V is DICE’s latest big-budget shooter. The game boasts great gunplay and jaw-dropping visuals. However, the number of available maps has always been a little low for franchise fans’ liking. The team has slowly been adding maps to the rotation and a new one, Mercury, is coming at the end of this month. Give
Peter Mayhew, the man who played the role as one of the most recognizable characters in all of entertainment in Chewbacca, sadly passed away on April 30, 2019. After the news broke, many of his friends and fans showed their admiration for him online with countless amounts of stories and support. Now, developers and fans
With Battlefield V’s Battle Royale mode on the horizon, some fans of the game may be concerned that series developer DICE may focus more on the upcoming new game mode as opposed to the game’s base multiplayer component. When one fan pleaded with the studio to not completely drop the game’s multiplayer component via Twitter, DICE
While Battlefield 5 has been out for quite some time since its debut last fall, the multiplayer shooter still has one big mode left on the horizon with its upcoming “Firestorm” battle royale mode. Though the mode itself still doesn’t have a firm release date, we at least now know more about the battle royale mode
Popular Battlefield game mode Rush returns to the franchise during the final week of Chapter 2: Lightning Strikes for Battlefield V. Rush will only be playable from March 7-March 20, 2019. This gameplay mode first appeared in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in which a team of attackers attempt to arm bombs in specific areas while
Even though Battlefield 5 might be the studio’s most recent release, DICE is still hard at work adding new content to the 2017 iteration of Star Wars Battlefront II. Starting next week, the multiplayer title will also see the addition of a new hero character in Anakin Skywalker, which DICE has finally now shown off to fans.
It doesn’t feel like too much time has passed since the holiday season, but the deals are continuing, at least from Microsoft. For a limited time, all Xbox One bundles are up to $50 off, with Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb highlighting three bundles in particular. In a blog post, Hyrb mentioned a Fortnite bundle, a
Hey, remember Star Wars video games? It turns out, EA is still working on those. Although the game from their Vancouver team is frozen in carbonite, EA is still committing to their Star Wars projects. Going with that, DICE reminded Star Wars Battlefront II players of their previously-announced plans regarding Count Dooku. Sorry—Lord Tyranus. Double
Despite a sluggish start out of the gate when it released in 2017, DICE and EA have more plans to continue pumping out content for Star Wars Battlefront II in 2019. To kick off the new year, DICE recently announced all of its plans for the game in the month of January. For the next three
It would be an understatement to say that Star Wars Battlefront II got off to a rocky start upon its 2017 launch, but EA and DICE have attempted to earn goodwill with a stream of new content this year. In summarizing what the game has added during 2018, the team behind Battlefront also reminded players
A little over a year after initially releasing, EA has today announced that DICE’s multiplayer-focused shooter Star Wars Battlefront II has now come to EA Access. While it didn’t have the smoothest launch, developer DICE has continued adding more new content to Star Wars Battlefront II over the past year, all for free. Just this past month,
As we reported on earlier in the day, Battlefield 5‘s first major content expansion was scheduled to go live tomorrow but due to unforeseen issues, it seems that will no longer be the case. DICE revealed just hours ago that Chapter 1: Overture, the name of the first free content update for Battlefield 5, has now officially been
DICE will be releasing the first free update to Battlefield V, titled: Chapter 1: Overture, on Tuesday, December 4, 2018. To build up some hype beforehand they have released a new trailer showing off some of this update’s new content. This Chapater 1: Overture update brings a new map, War Story, practice range, and company gear,
The latest update from Battlefield V, Tides of War Chapter 1: Overture, is only days away from launch. And with that, we get some more details about all of the new maps and features this all brings. The development team took to Reddit to make a long post that gives great insight into the update. The first thing addressed were
At this point, we’re exactly one week away from the next major update for Battlefront II, titled Battle of Geonosis, but that’s not stopping DICE from giving us more information about what we should expect. Today, the developer released a brand new trailer for the update, as well as more details about a certain Jedi joining the first-person shooter.
Three years ago, EA and DICE released Star Wars Battlefront, a recreation of the classic Battlefront series for a new age. While the game had a lot of promise, the main complaint from many was that it didn’t contain enough content at launch and the content that was on its way would only be via the game’s
Today, November 11 we celebrated Armistice Day. The day that the armistice was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month bringing an end to World War I. While parades were being held, and documentaries being shown on TV channels, players on a Battlefield 1 server all ceased conflict to pay their
The launch day for Battlefield V this month is drawing near and we’ve already seen the scale of the maps coming to the title on day one. On top of that, the official DICE Twitter has been having rolling staff taking over the account for the past few weeks, giving users a look behind the scenes.
Ahead of the impending launch of Battlefield 5 later this month, EA and DICE have now officially revealed the specs that will be needed for those looking to play on PC. As is normal with these PC requirements, DICE has listed both the ones that will be needed to simply play Battlefield 5 at its most base setting, in addition
Hello there… A developer from DICE has given fans of Star Wars Battlefront II their first glimpse at Obi-Wan Kenobi in the game. The brief tease we get of General Kenobi isn’t too glorious. But it’s still exciting that the iconic character is finally being added to the roster of heroes in Star Wars Battlefront II. You can check out
The fall season is always a competitive one for video games, but you could argue that 2018 is more fierce than usual. Following incredibly strong releases from both Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2 this past weekend, it seems like it might be harder for new releases to grab their own share of the