Planet Battlefield write: "As mentioned in the previous giveaway on Wednesday, we still have 10 more Battlefield Heroes beta keys to give out. Winners will be picked randomly. Simply register and fill out the form with your first, last name, email, and birthday. This will run till Sunday, October 5th at 11:59pm PDT. That gives you a little over 2 days, so hurry up and enter by clicking the image below!"
I look at this video and all I could think was "Hey, somebody spilled some Pixar on my Battlefield game!" If you are a one of the niche fans of Rocket Launchers and kilts, your in luck. I can't wait to be able to get my hands on this free first person shooter from the same folks that have brought us the uber-successful Battlefield franchise. Cheers to DICE and here's to hoping there is alot more where this came from.
Acclaim Inc founder and development veteran David Perry has told GamesIndustry.biz that he believes forthcoming Electronic Arts title Battlefield Heroes will be "a huge hit" and that he has "incredible faith that EA is going to pull this off."
Running from enemy gun turrets, tanks and fighter planes is nothing new for players of "Battlefield," a franchise that fired its first shot in World War II but has since tackled Vietnam and modern combat. Its most recent tour of duty, "Battlefield: Bad Company," has sold 1.6 million units worldwide since June.
WorthPlaying writes: "EA's investors conference call revealed that its free-to-play online FPS Battlefield Heroes is getting delayed until late 2008 in order to give the devs more time to implement community features, while Tiberium, its FPS set in the C&C universe, fis being pushed rom its scheduled late 2008 date until fiscal 2009, which runs anywhere from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010. However sports fans will be delighted to know that next year Madden, NBA Live and NCAA Football are coming back to the PC with expanded online features."
Shacknews writes: "EA DICE's upcoming free-to-play PC shooter Battlefield Heroes has been delayed and is now expected to arrive late this year, publisher Electronic Arts announced today.
The Battlefield Podcast will reach its 100th episode this Saturday, June 28th, 2008. To celebrate this event, the show will be streamed online at www.tuxmedia.tv/live beginning at 2pm PST and lasting for several hours.
GamesIndustry.Biz writes: "Ben Cousins, executive producer for EA's DICE studio, has detailed how the the forthcoming free-to-play game Battlefield Heroes is targeting an audience currently snubbed by traditional gaming.
Next-Gen.Biz writes: "Electronic Arts is taking Battlefield from core to casual ¿ and changing the franchise to appeal to the "Frustrated Restricted" market.
Griffin: "If you're one of the many applicants for the Battlefield Heroes beta, you've probably been informed of this via a somber mass email, but QA Boss, the organization in charge of registration for said beta test, has experienced a security breach which "exposes QA Boss forum user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords." The cause and extent of the breach, and who, if anyone, did the breaching, we've yet to learn -- nor do we know if it will affect the progress of the beta test.
Speaking to videogaming247, free-to-play PC shooter Battlefield Heroes executive producer Ben Cousins has said that the game may be run even if it doesn't make profit, primarily as it succeeds in bringing new players into the world of Battlefield in general.
Planet Battlefield writes: "During the EA Spring Break event in San Francisco, press were allowed to capture their own Battlefield Heroes footage. The below screenshots were all sceen capped from IGN and GameTrailers video.
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Planet Battlefield writes: "EA held a London press event on Friday and released some brand new media as well as some new information on Battlefield Heroes. We wanted to post an HD version of this yesterday, but we can't wait any longer as EA must be too busy eating fish and chips out in London. Expect a 720p version with screencaps soon.
Videogamer reports that A Xbox 360 version of upcoming free PC shooter Battlefield Heroes is unlikely because of Microsoft's control over Xbox 360 LIVE, according to developer DICE.
DICE Studios, the developer behind upcoming free cartoony shooter Battlefield: Heroes, has defended its art style against accusations that it is a rip-off of Valve's game Team Fortress 2.
VG247: EA showed off free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes today at its spring showcase in London, revealing a ton of stuff about character customisation, close beta dates, micro-transactions and more.
Battlefield Heroes Lead Designer, James Salt writes: "Hello Heroes! James Salt here, Lead Designer on Battlefield Heroes. Those of you who regularly read the blog may remember Ben Cousins, the Senior Producer for Heroes, promised this blog would be about 'the importance of playtests and the design and development of the ability system'.
VG247's reporting that Battlefield Heroes won't have any in-game ads, and will be funded instead from ads on the official site the game launches from.