Yesterday, Milestone announced MotoGP 24, this year's edition of the officially licensed MotoGP videogame.
28.02.2024 - 13:40 / wccftech.com / Tom Henderson / Alessio Palumbo / Royale
DICE, Criterion, and Ripple Effect Studios are working hard to make the next Battlefield game the success that 2042 wasn't. Publisher Electronic Arts has previously suggested a 2025 release for the next mainline installment.
Now, insider Tom Henderson said the tentative launch window has been set to October 2025. The report also reveals that a free-to-play Battle Royale experience is being crafted by Ripple Effect Studios. It will be modeled after Call of Duty Warzone, which works in tandem with the premium yearly release of Call of Duty. Two modes are currently in preparation: a classic Battle Royale affair and a Gauntlet mode where teams of players are required to complete objectives. The team with the lowest score after an objective would be removed until only one is left standing.
Beyond that, the next Battlefield is said to be set in the near future (2025-2030). The developers are attempting a return to the roots of the IP with 64-player matches (Battlefield 2042 attempted to double the max player count), an emphasis on physics-based destruction, and the traditional class system.
Over time, DICE attempted to rectify some of those aspects in Battlefield 2042, too. For example, the Specialists available at launch were split into the four classic categories (Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon) as part of 2023's class system rework.
Update 6.4 launches today and adds the Arkangel Directive, which includes a 24v24 mode called Control, where players take and hold rotating objectives to upload tactical telemetry, collect the most telemetry to command the region, and earn Ascension Points to purchase vehicles. Players can also look forward to an improvement in how persistent servers function for Battlefield Portal: even without an active Season, all Custom Experiences created within Battlefield Portal will now benefit from server persistence for two days. The developers also enhanced the directional gunner HUD and added new customization options.
Battlefield 2042's Season 7 will be unveiled and launched in March.
Yesterday, Milestone announced MotoGP 24, this year's edition of the officially licensed MotoGP videogame.
Today, during the 2024 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, Hangar 13 and 2K announced the release date of Top Spin 2K25. The first installment in the tennis simulation game series since 2011's Top Spin 4 will launch on April 26 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S|X with full cross-play. Pre-orders are also open with four editions available for purchase:
After much speculation, Warner Bros. announced today that its free-to-play platform fighting game MultiVersus is officially launching on May 28.
Ghost Recon Breakpoint was a bit of a dumpster fire, and Ghost Recon Frontline got cancelled in response to widespread backlash against its core premise, so the last few years have definitely been rough for the Ghost Recon franchise. Even so, though a new game hasn’t yet been officially announced, it seems safe to assume, given the magnitude of the franchise, that Ubisoft does have plans for a new game in the series. Now, a report published by Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has shed light on alleged details about that next instalment.
Today, Arrowhead announced a new Warbond called Cutting Edge, which is coming on Thursday, March 14 to Helldivers 2. A Warbond is effectively the game's version of a Battle Pass, in case you didn't know.
11 bit Studios brought a release date reveal trailer for Frostpunk 2 at the Xbox Partner Showcase. The sequel to the popular city building survival game released in 2018 will be available starting on July 25 for PC (where the game will support AMD FSR 3) via all main stores, including Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG. Additionally, it will be added to Microsoft's Game Pass subscription service from day one.
Two years after the project's original announcement, Terminator: Survivors was unveiled during NACON Connect 2024. Developed by NACON Milan, it's an open world survival game based on an original story set in 2009, after the events of the second Terminator film.
The MMORPG Camelot Unchained, funded through Kickstarter nearly eleven years ago with $2.2 million, will finally be released late next year. The news comes today from developer City State Entertainment, which is rebranding as Unchained Entertainment.
When EA revealed that it was adopting a new multi-studio development model for the Battlefield franchise in 2021, it confirmed that Ripple Effect Studios – previously DICE LA – was at work on a “new” Battlefield “experience”. But with DICE and Ridgeline Games currently working on the series’ next mainline instalment (which is allegedly due out in October 2025), what should we expect from how Ripple Effect’s game will fit into the picture?
The critical and commercial failure of 2020’s Battlefield 2042 forced EA to reevaluate the first-person shooter franchise in some significant ways, leading to the company adopting a multi-studio development model for future instalments. Concrete details on the future of Battlefield have been scant since these changes were instituted, but a new report by Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson has shed light on potential details.
A new report has claimed that the next entry into the Battlefield franchise will launch alongside a free-to-play Battle Royale mode. Battlefield already has its own Battle Royale in the form of Firestorm, but that required players to own the base game, limiting the potential player base in an already crowded market.
Just nine days ago, Italian independent developer Jyamma Games revealed that its debut project, Enotria: The Last Song, would launch on June 21.