The next Battlefield game will be called Battlefield 1, and will come out on Xbox One, PS4, and PC on October 21, Electronic Arts announced during a live-stream Friday.
The presentation, which included the first trailer of the game, showed images of heavy artillery, vehicles — including biplanes, a battleship, horses, and a giant zeppelin — and the iconic trenches of the WWI era. In addition to the series’ standard weapons — pistols, shotguns, and sniper rifles — the game will feature “many melee weapons,” such as a spiky mace shown in the trailer, each with its own feel. Its level locales will include Italy, France and Arabia. The game will feature 64-player multiplayer matches.
The announcement follows a pair of leaks earlier in the day, which revealed a promotional image and the game’s name. The image initially showed up on the Xbox One store, followed by photos of posters and promotional materials. Though fans likely assumed there would be a new Battlefield game coming out this year, EA first announced that fact during its annual financial call in January.
According to the trailer, the game will be available on PC and Xbox One through EA Access “first,” though EA did not specify an exact date. There’s also a collector’s edition set, called the “early enlister” edition, coming out October 18, three days before the standard edition. According to IGN, The “Early Enlister” collector’s set will also come with extra cosmetic downloadable content for weapons, characters, and vehicles, including the “Red Baron Pack,” the “Lawrence of Arabia Pack,” and the “Harlem Hellfighter Pack.”
Representitives from DICE and EA said they will release more detailed information about the game at a later date, potentially at EA’s E3-adjacent fan convention, EA Play, in June.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
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Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.