Battlefield 6 Alpha Happening Earlier Than Ever Before
Alongside today’s news that
Battlefield 6, Electronic Arts has provided more details on this year’s highly-anticipated shooter. Specifically, we have learned that we might be able to get our hands on the game sooner than had been originally anticipated.
In a new blog post on EA’s website, chief studios officer Laura Miele said that it is planning to release a trial version of
Battlefield 6 sooner than it ever has before. While Miele didn’t commit to a specific window in which this might arrive, she said that the game’s first technical alpha will roll out at an earlier window. “The project is tracking towards the franchise’s earliest Alpha, the gameplay is at an unprecedented scale, and we are taking full advantage of the technology in the next-gen consoles,” Miele said of the latest Battlefield title. “The team has done an incredible job despite the challenges of working from home. We want to build on our
New Need for Speed Game Delayed to 2022 as Criterion Aids With Battlefield 6 Development
Electronic Arts has opted to push back the next installment in the long-running racing franchise
Need for Speed until 2022. Instead, Criterion Games, which has been the primary developer of the series for quite some time, will be shifting to assist DICE with this year’s release of
Battlefield 6.
This information has come about thanks to a new interview from Polygon with EA’s chief studios officer Laura Miele. While acknowledging that
Battlefield 6 is shaping up quite nicely, Miele said the decision was made to have Criterion help with the project due to development constraints that have come about as a result of the ongoing pandemic. “[Battlefield] is shaping up great, the team has been working incredibly hard, they pushed hard last year, and yes, we have been working from home,” Miele explained. “And it’s hard; it’s hard to make games from home, and the [DICE] team is fatig
Battlefield 6: Former DICE Developer Gives Honest Response to Recent Rumors
In the past several weeks, a couple of different
Battlefield 6 rumors have surfaced online and made the rounds, including rumors from some very credible sources. However, according to a former DICE developer, none of these rumors are worth putting much stock into. Over on Twitter, one
Battlefield fan recently asked Alan Kertz, a former DICE developer that left the studio towards the end of 2020, what they thought of all the
Battlefield 6 rumors making the headlines. Responding to this inquiry, Kertz provided a candid and straight-to-the-point response, noting they ve yet to see a leak worth a damn.
Crazy New Battlefield Game Teased
A crazy new
Battlefield game has been teased, but at the moment, it s not 100 percent clear if it s a brand-new PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S game or just
Battlefield 6. What we do know for sure is that the new DICE LA studio is indeed working on a
Battlefield game. How do we know this? Well, because the studio s senior design director, Justin Wiebe, recently confirmed as much.
Beyond confirming he and the team are working on the shooter franchise, Wiebe teases that he s bringing some crazy to the franchise, which in turn suggests this is not
Battlefield 6: 128 Player Matches, Heavily Inspired by Battlefield 3, and More Revealed in New Report
A new
Battlefield 6 report has surfaced online and is making the rounds for its claims about the PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC game. The report comes the way of Tom Henderson, a leaker and industry insider primarily known for his information on
Call of Duty. However, while Henderson is known for
GTA 6. And now he has information about the new
Battlefieldgame releasing this year, tentatively referred to as
Battlefield 6.
According to Henderson,
Battlefield 6 multiplayer matches will support up to 128 players, which suggests the game will have some pretty massive maps. Of course, when people think of massive player counts they think of a battle royale mode, but it sounds like DICE and EA haven t fully decided on a battle royale mode for the game, which suggests, at the very least, there won t be a battle royale mode at launch.