Five years ago, the Battlefield Easter Egg Community believed they had stumbled upon something big. After discovering morse code hidden within the Battlefield 1 MCOM radios, a dedicated myth-hunting team went about attempting to decipher it, but struggled to make head or tail of the message inside. “We had …
Read More »Get 8 EA games for charity in the Humble Origin Bundle
Electronic Arts might not strike you as the humble type, but the publisher’s eight-PC-game pay-what-you-want Humble Origin Bundle (opens in new tab) may be the humblest of them all; EA isn’t taking any cash from the pack, and is instead allocating its share to the pledger’s choice of five charities. …
Read More »Battlefield 3 DLC gets new trailer and patch details
Here’s a new gameplay trailer for Battlefield 3’s upcoming Close Quarters DLC, showing the pack’s Donya Fortress being assaulted in the new Conquest Domination mode. The pack focuses on tightly-fought, claustrophobic battles in highly-destructible environments, but judging from this clip it’ll also play heavily to your indecision over whether to …
Read More »DICE hiring Anti-Cheating Administrator
Now showing on EA’s job site, the position is available at DICE’s headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, and will require the lucky candidate to become an expert on the latest cheat tactics, analyze players’ behavior data, sift through public reports, and take action on shady players when and if the need …
Read More »Battlefield 3 Guillotine trailer will make your head spin
Try not to be deterred by the title of Battlefield 3’s Guillotine teaser trailer, as there are neither beheadings or teasing of beheadings. Instead, EA’s new video is 47-seconds of beautifully chaotic in-game footage which – come to think of it – may in fact cause fans to lose their …
Read More »Gabe Newell hoping to woo EA back to Steam
EA may have had legitimate reasons for pulling its games from Valve’s digital distribution service Steam, but Valve boss Gabe Newell is determined to win them back regardless. In an interview with Develop magazine, Newell noted EA’s departure from Valve’s gaming portal makes sense on a number of levels, but …
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