Vince Zampella

It's been over two years since the release of the latest Battlefield installment, and fans are eager to learn more about what's coming next. While the series has been almost synonymous with destruction since Battlefield: Bad Company, that hasn't always been the case. Battlefield 2042, for instance, focused much more on map-specific extreme weather events like sandstorms and tornadoes.

Respawn is offering free Apex Packs to all Apex Legends players to compensate for recent issues with the game.

EA's Motive Studio is set to work on the next Battlefield game alongside DICE, Criterion, and Ripple Effect.

EA Motive has joined the team working on the future slate of Battlefield games.

Electronic Arts' Motive Studio is moving to work on the Battlefield franchise.

The Battlefield series increasingly seems like a square peg held by a publisher that only owns round holes. Created by EA Dice, overseen now by Respawn CEO Vince Zampella, recently worked on by EA's founded-and-shuttered Ridgeline Studios, and now EA Motive are the latest to be stuck with the beleaguered milsim.

Electronic Arts is adding Motive Studio, the team behind Star Wars: Squadrons and the 2023 remake of Dead Space, to the roster of developers working on the next Battlefield game. Byron Beede, general manager for the Battlefield franchise, and Patrick Klaus, general manager of Motive, announced the formation of a Battlefield-focused team at Motive on Tuesday — an announcement that also signaled the end of seasonal content for Battlefield 2042.

EA’s wider multi-studio Battlefield team has gone through some significant disruptions of late, with Ridgeling Games – the studio that was established to create narrative-driven Battlefield experiences – having been shuttered. Prior to that, EA announced that Need for Speed and Burnout developer Criterion Games had joined that larger team, and now, another notable studio has been added to that list.

EA and DICE have confirmed that Season 7 of Battlefield 2042 will be its last, with the companies looking forward to “what comes next” for the Battlefield franchise. That will no doubt be another big blockbusting online shooter, but Motive Studio will be creating a new team for Battlefield at their studio.

With the Connected Battlefield Universe's development now in full swing, EA announced today that Battlefield 2042 Season 7 will officially be its last.

Dead Space remake and Star Wars: Squadrons studio Motive is joining Electronic Arts’ wider Battlefield development team.

Respawn has apologised to Apex Legends players who have experienced account resets and lost progress after the studio “messed up” a recent game update.

Respawn Entertainment has confirmed that Apex Legends players taking part in a tournament were hacked mid-game.

Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has suffered a round of layoffs as part of wider cuts at parent company Electronic Arts.

EA has revealed Season 7 of Battlefield 2042, and it comes with quite the reward for loyal players.

Stig Asmussen, acclaimed director of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor, has split from Respawn Entertainment and EA to create his own AAA game studio named Giant Skull. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched nearly a year ago to high praise from Star Wars fans and from gamers in general, going on to become one of the very best titles of the year, and leaving fans yearning for the series' confirmed third installment.

The Battlefield series has lost another high-profile figure in the form of Craig Morrison, who has left his role as studio creative director at EA‘s DICE.

Apex Legends players can expect to start seeing the game “expand beyond the traditional battle royale universe” over the coming year as Electronic Arts looks to attract more players to the franchise.

Respawn Entertainment is supposedly working on a game that is set in the Titanfall universe. This rumor surfaced after the studio's parent company, Electronic Arts, pulled the plug on a Star Wars first-person shooter.

Respawn Entertainment's debut IP was Titanfall. The success of that franchise led Electronic Arts to purchase Respawn in November 2017. However, the only new game released in that universe after the acquisition is the Battle Royale Apex Legends, which is obviously quite far from Titanfall's original target audience.

Respawn Entertainment is reportedly working on a new game set in the Titanfall universe.

Electronic Arts has closed Ridgeline Games, the studio formed in 2021 to work on a future Battlefield single-player game.

Electronic Arts has announced that it’s laying off roughly 670 people, and as you might imagine, a number of studios owned by the company are set to be impacted. One of the more severe cases is Ridgeline Games, which is being shuttered entirely. This follows the studio’s head and narrative director Marcus Lehto recently announcing his departure.

Marcus Lehto has confirmed that he’s left his position as game director on a new Battlefield title.

A major EA employee seems to have left under mysterious circumstances.

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has left the EA studio he founded to work on the next generation of Battlefield games.

Activision execs offered Infinity Ward staff a 50 percent pay increase and told staff to «take the money and get over it» after the publisher dramatically fired the developer's founders Jason West and Vince Zampella in 2010.

Gameplay of a canceled Call of Duty codenamed NX1 has leaked online, revealing an effort to release a futuristic game in the franchise from former Guitar Hero developer Neversoft.

The next game from Battlefield studio Ripple Effect, the studio previously known as DICE LA, is aiming to deliver the most realistic destruction effects in any video game.

After 32 years, Bobby Kotick has retired at Activision Blizzard King, and possibly, from the video game industry as a whole.

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Electronic Arts has made a round of layoffs at UK-based racing games developer Codemasters.

Respawn's recent updates to Titanfall 2 have fans convinced the developer is teasing something for the game's seventh anniversary.

Very few video games have truly changed the way we play. The likes of Half-Life, World of Warcraft, and Fortnite are once-in-a-generation shifts. October 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of one of those seismic games: the original Call of Duty. What began as an attempt to beat Medal of Honor at its own game turned into a monolithic franchise with over 400 million sales across 30 different games. It was a significant turning point for both FPS campaign design and online multiplayer, ushering in an era of cinematic set pieces and ladder-based progression. Call of Duty was, undoubtedly, the FPS that changed shooters forever.

EA has announced that Need for Speed studio Criterion Games will focus its efforts on the Battlefield franchise.

Criterion Games of Need for Speed fame is working on the Battlefield series. Franchise boss Vince Zampella released a statement announcing that the team would join EA Entertainment for the same.

Electronic Arts has been working on many things recently, and not all of it has been simple. They’re not just making games right now. They’re trying to restructure their company and outlook so they can focus on making the best games possible. To that end, they have decided to merge the team from Criterion Games into the grander fold of EA Entertainment. What does that mean? Simply put, they will be put into the larger umbrella of EA titles, with the team now apparently focusing on the Battlefield franchise. EA released a statement about this today on is website and had this to say about the new merger:

Developer Criterion Games is being added to the EA Entertainment (EAE) division. In a blog post from EAE's general manager Vince Zampella, he explained that the Burnout studio has been brought on to help with the development of DICE's Battlefield franchise. 

Criterion Games, developer of titles such as Burnout and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, has formally joined EA Entertainment, according to a press release written by EA’s Vince Zampella. Criterion has been an EA studio since it was acquired in 2004, but it will now be primarily working on the Battlefield franchise.

Criterion Games will be added to EA Entertainment to work on the next Battlefield as well as the next Need for Speed.

Criterion Games has moved divisions within Electronic Arts to work on the Battlefield franchise.

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Criterion has been tapped to assist in the development of the next big Battlefield project.

Criterion, the British studio behind recent Need for Speed titles and the classic Burnout series, will now focus the majority of its efforts on EA's Battlefield shooter franchise.

Good news for fans of heavy artillery, less good news for lovers of sleek rides. Criterion, British-based creator of the Burnout racing games and recent Need for Speed titles, will work primarily on EA and DICE's Battlefield shooters in future. The studio's first objective: improving the contemporary-set Battlefield 2042, which our Ed Thorn described as "an FPS package that has its fun moments, but one that's blighted by performance issues" back in 2021.

Titanfall 2 players are rushing to the game's multiplayer after Respawn quietly fixed the matchmaking server issues. 

Respawn seems to have quietly patched Titanfall 2.

Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson has teased exciting unannounced projects currently in development at Respawn.

EA group general Manager Samantha Ryan has left the company.

EA's group general manager Samantha Ryan has left the company.

DICE has confirmed that Battlefield 2042's Update 5.2 will roll out next week.