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Hi guys! I’ve back with the latest Battlefield 3 news straight from the studio. I hope you are ready to go Back to Karkand, as we are releasing our first Battlefield 3 expansion pack Tuesday, December 6th on PlayStation 3 in America and Europe – a week early for PlayStation customers!

To recap, Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand is a massive themed expansion pack featuring four legendary Battlefield maps reimagined in the Frostbite 2 engine. You also get three vehicles (the VSTOL fighter jet, Desert Buggy, and an APC), ten new weapons that you can bring back to the base game, a new layer of persistence with our all-new Assignments, plus five shiny Trophies.

The maps we chose for this expansion pack are all classic fan favorites: Wake Island, Sharqi Peninsula, Gulf of Oman, and Strike at Karkand (from where the expansion pack got its name). These maps are about all-out warfare in a variety of settings and have collectedly been played literally billions of times by our players. Now, they are due for a reimagining with the power of the Frostbite 2 engine. This allows us do things like take the level of destruction to ridiculous heights. You can basically turn these entire maps into rubble (with the exception of Wake Island, which has a lot less buildings and is more of an open landscape).

The design idea for Back to Karkand is that these legendary maps have aged since you last saw them. If you are a returning veteran, you will feel instantly at home, but there will also be a sense of exciting rediscovery about them. If you have not played on the before, they are simply a great addition to the nine available multiplayer maps in Battlefield 3, building on all the strengths of the series.

Now, let’s turn our eye to take a closer look at Assignments, specifically the “Let it Rain” Assignment. To complete this assignment, players must score 20 kills with Light Machine Guns and two mortar kills. The game will keep track of how far along you have come fulfilling this assignment. When you have met the requirements, you will unlock a new Back to Karkand weapon (with a matching set of dog tags) to use on any map including the base game. You will also unlock the next Assignment in the series, the new Creeping Death Assignment.

As with all of the Assignments introduced in Back to Karkand, you can keep building towards these no matter if you play on regular maps or maps from the new expansion pack itself. Your regular persistence will also be intact and keep building up no matter what map you play. In this way Back to Karkand is completely integrated into the base game, including the ability to have a map rotation mixing base game maps with Back to Karkand maps.

And before we go, here are the five new Trophies you can hunt in Back to Karkand:

Complete Warrior (Silver)
Get a kill with the following weapons in a single life: Rifle, Jet, Tank

Third Tour (Bronze)
Get a kill with the new APC, Desert Buggy, and STOVL fighter jet

Gunslinger (Bronze)Get 10 kills with all B2K weapons

Like a Boss! (Silver)
Get a kill with the skid loader

Jaws (Bronze)
Take a swim in the pool at the Oman hotel

We will keep supporting Battlefield 3 on PS3 for a long time, so we hope to see you online Tuesday and beyond. Let us know what you think about Back to Karkand in the Battlelog forums.

If you are a Battlefield 3 Limited Edition owner, you are entitled to this entire expansion pack at no extra charge and you can get it from the in-game store or the PlayStation Store, just make sure to activate your Online Pass if you have not done so. Otherwise, you can buy it for .99 from the game’s in-game store or from the PlayStation Store. Future expansion packs for Battlefield 3 will also be available one week early exclusively on PlayStation 3 like Back to Karkand.”

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There has been a lot of talk about Battlefield 3 being released in Alpha testing. Now a 7 minute gameplay video has been leaked via BF3Blog. This first person shooter amazing! I really want to get my hands on the Alpha test version and have a play around myself.

Battlefield 3 Gameplay Video Leaked originally appeared on: WireNinja

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There has been a lot of talk about Battlefield 3 being released in Alpha testing. Now a 7 minute gameplay video has been leaked via BF3Blog. This first person shooter amazing! I really want to get my hands on the Alpha test version and have a play around myself.

Battlefield 3 Gameplay Video Leaked originally appeared on: WireNinja

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Dice has been very keen to push that the main platform for Battlefield 3 is the PC, most notably 64 player support (as opposed to only 24 for consoles). DICE executive producer Patrick Bach responded to a question regarding PC versus consoles, and it was clear that Bach and DICE are in favor on PCs at this point.

Asked specifically whether he feels if consoles are holding PC gaming back, Bach replied “Yes, Absolutely”, and added “That’s the biggest problem we have today”. He went on, saying that most games are made for the lowest common denominator (i.e. consoles), and that console games are generally ported to the PC with some higher resolution textures. Bach stressed that DICE is doing the opposite with Battlefield 3 — the PC version is the lead version and the console versions will be scaled down, as opposed to console version being scaled up to the PC.

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Here is the first glimpse of actual in-game footage from Battlefield 3 as a U.S. Marine squad engages hostile forces in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Players anxious to start the fight can pre-order the Battlefield 3 Limited Edition now at EA Store at this link: http://bit.ly/hf49Oy

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Vietnam is an under-represented war in video games. Maybe it’s because gamers prefer the clear moral lines of World War II. The over-the-top Battlefield Bad Company series already blurs the lines, though, so Vietnam seems a suitable setting for this download-only follow up.

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Battlefield 1943 now officially the fastest-selling game download.

With the inclusion of only three tweaked multiplayer maps, some gaming fans were not holding out much hope for Battlefield 1943, but with a download price of just reflecting the somewhat limited content, Electronic Arts’ (EA) latest online release has shot off the virtual shelves and is breaking records left right and center.

In fact, Battlefield 1943 has notched up a massive 600,000 purchases since its launch, making it the fastest selling day-one and week-one download release to ever hit Xbox Live’s global network, rather than just attracting players to the point of merely selling well.

Hitting the market as the multiplayer sequel to the hugely popular World War II shooter Battlefield 1942, the new release caters for up to 24 players across the existing Pacific gameplay environments of Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. EA had initially locked off a fourth map called Coral Sea, promising to unlock it on each respective platform when its gamers amassed an online kill count of 43 million. However, after players collectively reached 43 million kills, their respective console versions received access to the additional Coral Sea map.

With the Xbox 360 sporting a stronger rate of adoption, that figure of 43 million was surpassed with ease on Xbox Live in a mere five days – although PlayStation Network players were not far behind, reaching the required mark in a respectable eight days.

For those not in the gaming loop, Battlefield 1943 is an online multiplayer World War II first-person shooter video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and published by EA for Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation Network via digital download only. Unlike Battlefield 1942, this game is set for play only in the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II.

Players of this game can choose to enlist with either the United States Marine Corps (USMC) or the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), with up to 24 players on the three classic Battlefield maps of Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. The game features the Frostbite Engine for its environmental damage, and the series’ signature Conquest mode.

As with the Battlefield Heroes game, this one also features only three classes: Infantryman, Rifleman and Scout. The Infantryman is armed with a Type 100 submachine gun (IJN) or Thompson submachine gun (USMC), depending on the players choice of side, and equipped with a recoilless rifle, handheld grenades, and a wrench used both for melee and for repairing vehicles. The Rifleman is equipped armed with a Type 5 (IJN) or an M1 Garand (USMC), and equipped with rifle grenades, handheld grenades, and a bayonet. The Scout carries a Kar98k (IJN) or a Springfield (USMC), a Nambu pistol (IJN) or a Colt M1911 (UMSC) , a Katana sword (IJN) or knife (USMC), and also remote explosives. There are four types of vehicles in the game: each team’s base has two one-man fighter aircraft with Zeros for the Imperial Army and Corsairs for the USMC. Each team can capture a further base in the classic Maps which hold another airplane. Each airplane has a machine gun that can shoot down other airplanes or strafe ground troops; they also can drop bombs. Tanks can accommodate two people: a driver who can use a tank round and a coaxial machine gun, and a passenger who can use a machine gun. The tanks are the medium-size M4 Sherman and Type 97 Chi-Ha. Jeeps are fast ground vehicles equipped with a machine gun and support up to three players. Landing craft, equipped with machine guns, can transport up to six people across water.

While each class has an unlimited supply of ammunition, players still need to reload guns and explosives. The game also features a regenerating health system similar to the Call of Duty or Halo series.

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