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Writer reveals she "wasn't asked" to pen storyline for hotly anticipated next-gen remake
Read More »Investors file class action over BF4 bugs
Suit claims EA's top execs lied about game's quality and profited from stock sales
Read More »Next Battlefield could be developed in the UK
Criterion tipped to be working on EA's flagship shooter series, Dead Space dev Visceral also rumoured
Read More »Battlefield 4: China Rising introduces new problems as game’s tech woes continue
DICE’s ongoing struggle to fix the problems that have affected the many versions of Battlefield 4 show no signs of abating. A page on EA’s support site stated: "Some PC players of Battlefield 4 China Rising have found themselves getting kicked from servers within seconds of joining. DICE have identified …
Read More »Battlefield 4 suffers DDOS attack on PC, PS4 version suffers early struggles
It has not been a good weekend for Battlefield 4 fans. EA confirmed that the PC version of the game suffered a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack for much of the last 48 hours, preventing users from accessing the game’s online mode. The game’s Battlelog page carried the following …
Read More »DICE considered Battlefield 4 delay on PS4 and Xbox One
By the sounds of it the next-gen consoles came close to losing another high-profile launch title. Hot on the heels of the delay of both multiplatform outing Watch Dogs and PS4 exclusive DriveClub, DICE executive producer Patrick Bach admitted that the EA studio nearly postponed the launch of Battlefield 4 …
Read More »DICE: Linux needs one killer app to take off
'We strongly want to get into Linux for a reason,' says creative director
Read More »Linux just one ‘killer’ game away from gaming explosion, DICE believes
All it will take is one ‘killer’ game for open-source OS Linux for the platform to make a significant mark on gaming. That’s according to DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson who told Polygon that the EA-owned studio would very much like the operating system to establish itself. "We strongly want …
Read More »DICE promises changed single player for Battlefield 4
The single player component of Battlefield 4 will feel quite different from what was offered in Battlefield 3, DICE has said. "We got a lot of feedback from the Battlefield 3 single player,” DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson told CVG. Based on what we intended to deliver the team did …
Read More »Former Mirror’s Edge lead joins CCP Newcastle
Owen O'Brien to oversee production of Eve: Valkyrie
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