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EA @ E3 14: Battlefield Hardline beta begins today on PC, PS4
It looks like EA still has one Battlefield Hardline surprise up their sleeves. After showing a very cool trailer for Visceral’s upcoming cops-and-robbers game, Sony’s Adam Boyes revealed that a multiplayer beta for the game is available RIGHT NOW for the PC and PS4. Interested players can sign up at Battlefield.com/hardline. I gotta say, this news almost makes the earlier leaks look like a very calculated marketing move on EA’s part.
Battlefield Hardline will be available for the PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, and Xbox 360 on October 21.
Battlefield Hardline will be available October 21… see the E3 teaser trailer now
EA just can’t keep Battlefield Hardline a secret. Their original plan was to reveal Visceral Games’ cops-and-robbers crime drama during their E3 Press Conference, which is scheduled to be held today. Instead, the existence of the game leaked a bit early. And now, the E3 trailer is out in the wild ahead of their press conference too. But rather than run from the rumors, EA officially released the trailer themselves, confirming Hardline’s October 21 release date in the process.
We’ll hear more about Battlefield Hardline, which is believed to be in development for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, later today.
Continue Countdown #5 – Mortal Kombat X, Forza Horizon 2, Pre-E3 Predictions, More
It’s the most wonderful time of the year as the 2014 E3 Expo is right around the corner. The Warp Zoned staff spent a recent night chatting about some of the big pre-E3 announcements during the latest episode of “Continue Countdown.” We pre-pre-judged Mortal Kombat X, Homefront: The Revolution, Forza Horizon 2, BattleCry, Battlefield Hardline, and Hyrule Warriors in the first six segments of the show.
But we also wanted to worry and fret over a trio of delayed games (Batman: Arkham Knight, The Order: 1886, and Quantum Break) as well as speculate about what a Smash Bros.-style Mario Kart game would be like (spoiler alert: it would be AWESOME). And the eternal question (How much would you pay for an E.T. cartridge excavated from a landfill?) was answered.
Finally, we slipped a few E3 predictions in there. We’re probably way off the mark, but it’s that magical pre-E3 time when anything seems possible.
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Posted in PC, Podcast, PS3, PS4, Top Story, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Tagged Batman: Arkham Knight, BattleCry, Battlefield Hardline, E3 2014, Forza Horizon 2, Homefront: The Revolution, Hyrule Warriors, Mortal Kombat X, Quantum Break, The Order: 1886
Internet sleuths discover police-themed Battlefield Hardline on EA’s servers
Battlefield Hardline is rumored to be the next game in the Battlefield series, according to a lot of research performed today by multiple Internet sleuths. Samit Sarkar over at Polygon packaged it all together nicely:
The leak began with the discovery on the Better Battlelog forums of an initialism for a Battlefield game, “BFH,” listed for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The forum poster also discovered four soldier classes: Enforcer, Mechanic, Operator and Professional.
After that, the logo above was posted on web developer Koen Vlaswinkel’s personal website, taken from the Battlelog website. He “and the Battlefield Daily Twitter account also posted artwork and icons that mention the two sides in the game, SWAT and Thieves, and modes such as Blood Money and Heist.” These images, including a riot shield, taser, handcuffs, money, and police vehicles, did nothing to dispel the rumor.
But wait – there’s more. Vlaswinkel also found proof that Visceral Games, the studio behind the Dead Space series, could be the studio developing the game. He “discovered an image of the word ‘visceral,'” which goes along with a report from earlier this year about a cops-and-robbers game codenamed Havana in development at Visceral.
I guess we’ll just have to wait until EA’s E3 press conference at 3:00 PM (Eastern Time) on June 9, and hope that the publisher will clear this up then.
UPDATE: EA has gone ahead and officially announced Battlefield Hardline. And it looks like we will learn more at this year’s E3 Expo.
EA will unveil 6 new projects, including a Frostbite 3 game coming this Fall, at E3 2014
Electronic Arts has big plans for this year’s E3 Expo. The megapublisher will showcase “at least six projects” during their E3 2014 Press Conference, which they’ll present on Monday, June 9.
Andrew Wilson, EA’s Chief Executive Officer, has confirmed that one project we’ll definitely get a closer look at during E3 2014 is DICE LA’s Star Wars: Battlefront. Speaking yesterday during the company’s quarterly financial report, the CEO said that Battlefront is “coming along very, very well.” But he was quick to reiterate that the game is still a ways off and that “there’s lots and lots of work to go.”
Another one of EA’s big E3 reveals is a bit closer to release as Wilson also confirmed that a brand new Frostbite 3-powered game from “some of our most talented teams” will be on display during this year’s Expo. The game is scheduled to be released this Fall and could be Havana, the police-themed Battlefield game from Visceral that was hinted at back in February.
EA has a very full pipeline of projects in development and the remaining four games could be anything from games we’ve seen (including The Sims 4, which will be released this Fall) to things we haven’t (including Visceral’s Star Wars game, which will launch in 2015 at the earliest). Thankfully, the E3 Expo is only a little more than a month away.
Posted in News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Tagged Battlefield Hardline, E3 2014, Star Wars: Battlefront