The game's producer talks solo campaigns, rebalancing multiplayer classes and Battlelog.
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First public airing at GDC for the latest entry in DICE's FPS series.
Cost of marketing Battlefield 3 and The Old Republic has hit the publisher hard, sources claim, calling CEO's position into question.
Patrick Bach, executive producer of Battlefield 3, will serve as CEO of developer DICE for four months while Karl Magnus Troedsson is on paternity leave. More >
Valve sequel and Battlefield 3 each win three awards at London ceremony.
3Electronic Arts has pulled Battlefield 3: Aftershock from the iOS App Store following complaints from players. IGN reports that the game, a free download thanks to sponsorship from military film Act Of Valor, had an average user rating of two and a half stars when EA took it down. Players complained of a variety of issues, including problems with the controls and multiplayer matchmaking. More >
BAFTA has announced the ten games shortlisted for its Game Award, the only one of its annual videogame awards that is selected by public vote. Those that vote for their favourite from the list below can enter a prize draw to win a limited edition Star Wars Xbox 360 with Kinect. More >
Battlefield 3 is once again the best-selling title on the Nordic all-formats chart, which collates sales data from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, the EA shooter having held the number one spot since the last week of 2011. More >
Find your future designing quests for WOW, building new social games with Wooga or overseeing Dice's Battlelog.
Having made it through Christmas at the top of the Nordic all-formats chart - which collates sales data from Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland - Battlefield 3 continues to hold the line. In fact, the top four games remain unchanged with the first shift a reversal of last week's positions for Star Wars: The Old Republic and Need For Speed: The Run. Assassin's Creed: Revelations falls to nine with NHL 12 rising from ten to fill the gap. Rage, meanwhile, exits the top ten. More >
Child Of Eden, Battlefield 3 and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception vie for best visual design.
Our look back on a year in which EA aggressively expanded into digital while Activision went all-in on Call Of Duty.
More than eight million copies of Battlefield 3 have been sold since its launch last month, publisher Electronic Arts has announced. The news was revealed by EA CFO Eric Brown at the Baird Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday, as reported by Game Informer. More >
EA has belatedly followed through on the promise of a free copy of Battlefield 1943 for PlayStation 3 owners of Battlefield 3. Sony's Jack Tretton announced the offer at E3 in June, but it failed to materialise, and a class-action suit was filed in the United States on behalf of those affected. More >
A US law firm has begun class action proceedings against Electronic Arts after PlayStation 3 copies of Battlefield 3 shipped without the promised free copy of Battlefield 1943. Kotaku reports that the lawsuit, filed by Edelson McGuire, focuses not only on EA's failure to make good on SCEA president Jack Tretton's announcement at E3 in June, but on the publisher's failure to communicate the change in plans to prospective purchasers. More >
5Total physical videogame sales in the United States rose one per cent in October to $1.08 billion (£677.9 million) according to figures released by the NPD Group. The market research firm attributes that modest rise to hardware sales, which rose six per cent year on year thanks to Xbox 360, of which sales climbed over 20 per cent. Nintendo's 3DS was the second-best selling hardware of the month, with combined sales of it and its DS forebear up by more than 25 per cent year on year. More >
Battlefield 3 saw off competition from new entry Uncharted 3 to retain the number one spot on the Nordic chart, which combines sales data from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. More >
Animal rights group People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (Peta) has taken EA's Battlefield 3 to task over the killing of a rat in the game's singleplayer campaign. In a German-language press release translated by BF3Blog, Peta writes: "The realistic computer game Battlefield 3 treats animals in a sadistic manner. The game gives players the option to kill a rat with a combat knife in the back in order to then lift it by its tail, then toss it away." More >
5Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception failed to take top spot in the UK all-formats chart in its first week on sale, with EA's Battlefield 3 number one for a second week. This has happened before, in 2009 when Uncharted 2: Among Thieves failed to take top spot from another EA title, FIFA 10. More >
2Battlefield 3 is the new number one in the Nordic chart, knocking last week's surprise number one, The Sims 3: Pets into second place. It's been a good sales week for EA across Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, with the publisher taking the top three spots and five overall. More >
Battlefield 3 has sold five million copies to consumers in its first week of availability, according to internal estimates from Electronic Arts, making it the fastest-selling game in the publisher’s history. More >
EA says the issues affecting Battlefield 3's online component since its launch last week are all but fixed. As we reported last week, the Xbox 360 version was the hardest hit, with server connectivity problems when the game launched in North America last Tuesday and again following the game's midnight launch in Europe on Friday. More >
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