If you ever thought EA might stop producing Battlefield games, maybe, one day, in the future… well, nope. In fact, they’ve just gone and registered all the domains for everything from Battlefield13.com up to Battlefield20.com.

Unfortunately, some quick-thinking squatters own the rights to Battlefield10.com, Battlefield11.com and Battlefield12.com. But we’re sure EA can come to some arrangement.

As Blue’s News points out, if EA follows the current pattern of releases, Battlefield 20 will be out some time in 2077. So we’ve probably got a while to wait to see how this all pans out.

Source: Fusible via Blue’s News.

EA and DICE have released two new screens for Battlefield 4, taken from the single-player campaign (I know, I know).

Check ‘em out below — click to embiggen, naturally.

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Battlefield 4‘s single-player reveal was met with some derision from a fanbase who are generally acknowledged as only caring about the multiplayer. But now EA and DICE have revealed that they’re trying to use that multiplayer as inspiration for their campaign, going so far as to pull features directly from it.

“We want to move elements of multiplayer into singleplayer,” said DICE executive producer Patrick Bach to Edge. “If you’re playing multiplayer, you actually care about the guys in your squad, those are often your friends, they have their personalities, you help them, they help you, and they have their own mindset. Now we need to create a singleplayer that mimics that feeling.”

“Our goal is to create the perfect Battlefield movie,” continued Bach, “where you do all the things you do in multiplayer at some point, where you have choice, where you have these characters that you care about, that evolves over time. We actually have features that are pulled directly from multiplayer instead of having two separate paths.”

Source: Edge

A YouTube user has uploaded a video showing what they claim to be promotional artwork inside a Gamestop store for Battlefield 4. If true, the poster reveals not only the existence of three playable factions — Russia, China, and the United States — but also the return of Commander Mode.

The poster looks like one created in-store by Gamestop rather than distributed by EA, but it would need to have been based off information provided by EA in the first place (and we know that Gamestop’s CEO has already seen the game).

Take a look below and see what you think.

Source: VG247

Keen-eyed Battlefield enthusiasts running US and European clients have noted that the Battlefield 4 beta has appeared in Origin, listed under Battlefield 3 DLC — meaning we should hopefully be seeing the first beta testing coming soon.

At the moment, the Battlefield 4 beta is restricted to Battlefield 3 Premium members, players who pre-ordered Medal of Honor: Warfighter, and of course people who have slapped down money for the $90 Digital Deluxe Edition of the game on Origin. There’s almost no doubt it’ll go public at some point, but we’ll let you know when that happens (probably by giving away a buttload of keys!)

More info as it comes to hand.

Source: BF4Central (Thanks, PalZer0)

Good news for PC gamers looking to upgrade for Battlefield 4: the next generation of AMD releases will come bundled with the game itself.

The source for the claim is XBit Labs, who quote Roy Taylor, corporate vice president of global channel sales for AMD in an interview with Heise.de, a German tech site.

“[Partnership between AMD and EA DICE on the Battlefield 4] was presented at the Game Developer Conference,” said Taylor, “and the AMD Gaming Evolved logo already appeared online in the context of the game.”

“You can expect that Battlefield 4 will be part of [future] Never Settle bundles.”

The footage of Battlefield 4 we saw at GDC was running on a PC “based on the 7990 graphics card”, which has not yet been released to the public. You can see that footage in 1080p and 60FPS on our file library (quota-free, naturally).

Source: Xbit via Evil Avatar

We’ve managed to grab 2.29 GB of smooth, silky Battlefield 4 footage in 60FPS and full 1080p — and our file wizard Cas has uploaded it to our file library for your enjoyment.

This is of course the same footage you have seen before, but now running the way it was meant to be seen — perfect for freeze-framing and comparing the two engines. All downloads from our file library are quota-free for iiNet group customers, of course.

Want more Battlefield 4? We spoke to DICE and asked them exactly what was so important about their single-player campaign. Resident gun-nut Toby however, was less than impressed.

It ain’t easy being Battlefield. No matter how gratifying the gameplay is, no matter how beautiful the tech, the long-running FPS giant is always going to encounter some criticism – it may even attract it, given its pedigree. “On rails,” “essentially… the same game [as BF3]” and “all style and absolutely zero substance” were such comments made by the games.on.net community following the release of Battlefield 4’s single-player campaign trailer last week.

But are the complaints warranted? Is Battlefield 4 as “human, dramatic and believable” as DICE would have us believe? Is a highly-scripted experience necessarily a bad thing? We sat down with two members of the Battlefield 4 development team, executive producer Patrick Bach and single-player producer Tobias Dahl, to discuss their thoughts on the feedback that the epic 17-minute trailer has garnered since its reveal.

17 minutes is a long time to sit and watch somebody else play some Battlefield 4, but it’s Battlefield 4 so we all did it. The guy or gal playing it was definitely human (maybe too much), there were definitely some dramatic things that happened (I yawned really loud), and it was definitely believable if you prefix “believable” with “un.”

Alcoholic beverages have been angrily dashed to the ground tonight in unprecedented quantities as games critics both online and in person at the Battlefield 4 event in San Francisco expressed their shock and outrage that Battlefield 4 would be basically the same as Battlefield 3.

“I just can’t understand it,” sobbed one games writer, twisting their fedora in their hands in disbelief. “They had the chance to make something completely untested, and instead they opted to go for something that was guaranteed to make them a whole pile of money.”

Another nearby games writer reached over and gave them a friendly pat on the shoulder. “It’s like they didn’t even want to challenge the status quo,” they agreed. “I came in here expecting to have my mind blown, and instead they’ve remade their last successful game but just overhauled the visuals.”

“They are very pretty though,” he admitted.

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Battlefield 4 is being announced shortly in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference, but EA have for some reason decided to break their own embargo and release their press release and official YouTube videos ahead of time! So, without further ado, please find below 17 minutes of Battlefield 4 single-player campaign footage from the “Fishing in Baku” level.

You can download this from our file library right now. Check back soon for the official super-HD version direct from EA, which we’ll upload to the file library for you as soon as possible so you, like us, can over-analyse every pixel.

You can also check out the 60-second TV spot trailer and the three leaked screenshots.

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Not that anybody completely trusts publisher-released screenshots these days, but damn, they do look nice. Accidentally leaked ahead of time from an unsecured public directory on the Battlefield site, they’re presumably entirely legit and seem to show clips from the single-player campaign.

Click on ‘em to embiggen, naturally.

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