General Gaming News.

[Bob_McMillan]

So there will now be a studio dedicated for all future BF games, spearheaded by DICE, supported by various other studios. Along with that, they are gonna have closed-door testing sessions for anyone interested, called BF labs.

Sounds good on the paper, except

1. Multi-studio projects that stretches across globe has rarely worked (see ME: Andromeda)
2. BF Labs is basically qa testing and feedbacks from playerbase. And EA has never listen to what players want. I don't see how this will be any different?
3. They have A LOT of work to get back the trust of everyone who has left the franchise. Me included

Not gonna lie, what a hard video to get through. I have nothing against these developers but if they're not actually talking about the game, then I have no interest in what they have to say.

Also the whole "Battlefield Studios" shit is hilarious when they wouldn't stop talking about how many studios were involved with 2042. Are we supposed to pretend more studios is still a good thing?

Sigh. Hate to be such a downer about one of my favorite franchises but I refuse to ever get excited about a Battlefield game again.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

MSN

News item in Swedish; my translation: Video Game History Foundation has opened a digital archive for old video game magazine, readable for free here.

This is amazing. Much thanks!!