Steam News · Oct 8, 2012
Whereas most video games seek lucrative movie deals, EA is setting its sights for TV. DICE's Battlefield: Bad Company series will be turned into an "hour-long action comedy" executive produced by John Eisendrath (Alias). Sony Pictures and Happy Madison will be producing the series for FOX. According to Deadline Hollywood, Bad Company will feature the main characters from the game. "It follows four...
Steam News · Nov 9, 2011
EA president Frank Gibeau has learned that it doesn't matter where you say something, it will find its way onto Twitter. Speaking at the University of Southern California yesterday, Gibeau reportedly stated, "There is going to be a Battlefield 4," and attendees took the news to social media. Of course, the continuation of the franchise is an inevitability; however, what does the quote mean for the...
Steam News · Oct 25, 2011
Whatever else you might say about Battlefield 3, you can't deny that the game is (in 1920s parlance) a looker. Its visuals have been the claim to fame throughout EA and DICE's marketing efforts. Now for those curious to see an extremely detailed explanation of how DICE reached this point, Nvidia has released a video of the full keynote speech from its GeForce LAN 6 event, which featured DICE's Joh...
Steam News · Sep 20, 2011
A new patch for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is headed to PC this weekend. The main thrust of the patch is to address stability and performance issues, but it will also remove the SecuROM wrapper from non-Steam versions of the game. The large 2.6GB patch will be a one-stop update, as it includes all previous patches, though announcement notes that a smaller version for those who've already installed...
Steam News · Aug 5, 2011
It looks like virtual soldiers--particularly those fond of unlockable content--will have plenty of swag to keep them coming back to Battlefield 3. Battlefield 2 was the first game in the series (and one of the first shooters, in general) to contain (the now nearly ubiquitous) persistent unlockable perks, and Battlefield 3 is poised to deliver a list of unlockables that's an order of magnitude larg...
