News

Battlefield 3 Update Incoming

Updates on multiplayer shooters tend to be more important than your regular updates, because they tend to completely change the balance of the game! It looks as though Battlefield 3 is on the cusp of receiving a massive update, and the details can be found here.


May 31, 2012
PlayStation

Leak Reveals Battlefield Premium, EA’s Answer To Call Of Duty Elite

What’s better than Elite? EA is hoping the answer is Premium. The mega-publisher’s plans for a paid subscription service for the Battlefield action franchise have been revealed via a PlayStation store update reported on Eurogamer. The inadvertent leak outed a June 4 release date and a price of €50 ($62).


May 29, 2012
In Real Life

One Brave Battlefield 3 Soldier Takes On An Entire Army To Kill A Pesky Sniper

Snipers, man, amirite? They’re fiends. They find one good corner where even a scope glare won’t give them away, and they pick you off one by one.


May 16, 2012
In Real Life

This Graphic Novel Shows The Horrific Costs Of Modern Warfare

Shooters protagonist Terry Glass isn’t that different from the kind of character you’d play in a Medal of Honor, Battlefield or Call of Duty game. He’s a fictional American soldier fighting in the geopolitical hotspots where America’s armed forces face off against disparate, tough-to-pin-down threats.


May 15, 2012
News

Official Servers Make A Battlefield 3 Comeback

After it was discovered last week that the number of “official” DICE and EA Battlefield 3 servers on console had dropped significantly in the wake of a new rental scheme, the developer has moved to bring a large number of them back online.


News

Rumour: EA Prepping A COD Elite Style Premium Service For Battlefield 3

Kotaku AU

Battlefield 3 community site, Battlefieldo, is reporting that EA is prepping a premium service for Battlefield 3, a service that’ll be unveiled June 4 at E3.


In Real Life

You Can’t Hold This Battlefield 3 Jeep Back From Its Dreams Of Being An Aeroplane

This jeep in Battlefield 3 is special. It won’t listen to reason when you say things like, “But you’re just a Jeep. You were designed for four-wheeling and hazardous shooting.”


May 11, 2012
News

Where Did All The Official Battlefield 3 Servers Go?

It seems that EA and DICE have, very quietly, been taking away official servers for the console versions of Battlefield 3. Worse still, it looks like they’re replacing them with servers that fans have to pay for.


April 16, 2012
In Real Life

It’s People Like This That Make Me Not Want To Play Battlefield 3 Any More

I mean, what’s the point? I hide in tanks to stay away from guys like this, but the more they level up, the more tools they get to pry me out and do terrible things to my corpse.


April 4, 2012
Xbox

Battlefield 3 DLC Lets You Pay To Cheat (Basically)

EA is no stranger to allowing users to pay for upgrades most people earn the hard way. It’s been doing it since the dawn of the DLC era. But a new set of unlocks for Battlefield 3 is beginning to take the piss.