As you can see below, reputable Battlefield-related leaker Tom Henderson has published a newsletter outlining several new details about the unannounced Battlefield 6. In the newsletter, Henderson claims that Battlefield 6 has a slightly futuristic setting, being set around 10 years in the future from the present day.

🔥 NEW NEWSLETTER DEBUT🔥 – “Tom Henderson’s weekly GONE GOLD Newsletter #1 – BATTLEFIELD” https://t.co/cfQ5Umz36s (via @revue)March 29, 2021

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Through this, Battlefield 6’s developers will be able to implement technology that is only just being experimented with by today’s military, according to Henderson. We should expect to see military robots, drones, and jets, as well as your usual helicopters and tanks.

Battlefield 6 will feature a “revolutionary” campaign, according to Henderson’s newsletter. You’ll operate a specialist team, and you can select which superpower to fight for: the USA, or Russia. Additionally, the campaign will feature co-op support throughout, so you’ll be able to fight in your squad alongside your friends.

Apparently, Henderson has heard Battlefield 6’s multiplayer referred to as “Battlefield 3/4 on steroids,” and bigger and better than before. The leaker also claims that there’s a battle royale mode on the way, but possibly after the main game launches, where you’ll be able to play as one of four classes, each with different perks.

Finally, Henderson reveals that this year’s Battlefield will simply be called “Battlefield.” There’s no added flair on this year’s shooter from EA, and we can expect to see a reveal trailer in May without actual gameplay, which lines up with what a journalist at Venture Beat previously claimed.

Rumors of a Battlefield game launching in 2021 first circulated in January, when Henderson claimed that EA was designing the forthcoming game’s maps with 128 players in mind. At the time, Henderson also claimed that the unannounced Battlefield game would be heavily inspired by Battlefield 3, welcome news if you’re a fan of the series’ past.

Last month, an EA official revealed that Criterion was being recruited to help develop the unannounced Battlefield game with EA DICE. Criterion’s Need For Speed game is being put on the back burner temporarily, as both studios are going full tilt in an attempt to ship Battlefield later this year. Whatever the final game might end up looking like, there might be less than two months to go until we finally get a glimpse at the next Battlefield.

For a complete list of all the other games slated to launch at some point over the coming year, head over to our new games 2021 guide for more.

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Why The Gulag remains Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s best mission (opens in new tab)

Some truths are hard to swallow, but here’s one that I’ve been reluctantly digesting over the last few years. The Battlefield series has had its ups and downs over the course of the last generation, as its overall trajectory continues to bend away from the franchise’s core appeal, to the point where its most recent release, Battlefield 5, felt a far cry from the series’ highpoint of Bad Company 2. 

That’s not to say that DICE’s shooter series hasn’t had its moments since then. Battlefield 4 and Battlefield 1, in particular, are fantastic games in their own ways. On the contrary, it’s not so much that the quality of Battlefield games has deteriorated, but rather their identity has shifted, and subsequently narrowed in the process. 

The franchise’s patented brand of destructible, open-ended sandboxes have been slowly switched out for more static, corridor shooter-style arenas that hold more in common with DICE’s recent Star Wars Battlefront games than they do Battlefield. Again, there’s nothing wrong with that kind of shooter. It’s just not the experience I’ve come to know and love from this long revered IP.

Which is where Call of Duty comes in. Battlefield’s primary competitor has been undergoing its own pivot of late, albeit one that swings in the opposite direction. 

Where Call of Duty was once known for its three-lane, close quarters combat, Activision and its rotating roster developers have been empowered by the opportunities of evolving hardware to stretch those parameters upwards and outwards, designing larger maps with higher player counts, vehicular combat, and more. 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare‘s Ground War mode, while problematic, represented the apotheosis of that evolution… until Call of Duty: Warzone came along and took that scope to even greater heights. Now, with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, we have Fireteam mode, in  which “10 teams in squads of four face off against one another in large-scale maps featuring land/sea/air vehicles and various objectives”. I don’t know about you, but that sounds awfully familiar to me…

Only in Battlefield?

While my impressions of Black Ops Cold War had been somewhat marred by a poor experience with last month’s Open Alpha on PS4, October’s ongoing Beta testing presents a much better picture of Treyarch’s upcoming instalment. Nowhere is that picture more flattering, however, than in the recently released Fireteam mode, which is already a favourite of mine amongst the roster of the game’s new multiplayer modes. 

Set across a collection of large-scale zones (which are almost certainly going to be stitched together to form the next Warzone map), the mode is a tapestry of chaos in all the right ways. There are a number of variants planned, too, but players are currently privy to only one in the beta, Dirty Bomb, whereby teams are tasked with collecting uranium caches to arm and detonate radioactive bombs peppered around the battleground. Blow up a bomb, and its blast zone becomes a toxic wasteland. It’s Conquest meets Rush, with a Warzone twist. 

What’s more, Fireteam’s introduction of squadplay, right down to the ability to respawn on a squadmate, is yet another brazen-faced loan from Battlefield’s playbook, but I’m not even mad about it. Frankly, after long losing interest in Battlefield 5’s unsatisfying shootouts just a few months after its launch, I’m just happy to be enjoying something that emulates the comforting rhythms of classic Battlefield once again. 

To be clear, Call of Duty is still leagues apart from the soaring heights of Battlefield at its best, where RendeZooks (opens in new tab) and destruction multi-kills were just part of the package, and that’s okay too. There’s room for both shooters in the marketplace, and both occupy a space in the genre that caters to different tastes. But that’s just it. With Battlefield currently MIA, I’m more than happy to let Call of Duty come in and fill the vacuum for now, even if it’s not a worthy replacement in and of itself. 

Battlefield 6 is scheduled to launch sometime next year, and with the power of PS5 and Xbox Series X behind it, I hope DICE capitalises on the opportunity to take the series back to its roots, removing the ever encroaching barriers of recent entries to put player experimentation and sandbox strategy back at the forefront ofs its multiplayer combat. If it doesn’t, however, then I don’t see any reason why Call of Duty can’t keep winning me over in the meantime. 

For more, check out the best Call of Duty games in the series’ history, or find out everything you need to know about the PS5 in the video below. 

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A mysterious new Twitter account has appeared online, posting footage with several teases related to the ongoing Battlefield 6 (opens in new tab) mystery. 

Watch below for some cryptic imagery that a) has brief footage of a tank, b) contains the same numerical code that a DICE developer was tweeting out yesterday and c) features music that, when played backwards, reveals itself to be radio chatter from Battlefield 3. 

pic.twitter.com/NP5F0kkW3NSeptember 10, 2020

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What could it all mean? The official Battlefield Twitter account (opens in new tab) is back online, and also reposted some Battlefield 3 footage in a teasing acknowledgement of its disappearance, suggesting we could be heading back to a modern setting for DICE’s next instalment in its acclaimed FPS series. 

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Eagle-eyed Battlefield fans have spotted what could be the first teases for a new entry in the series. Multiple clues on Twitter suggest that developer DICE might have something to show us pretty soon.

Earlier today, Twitter user DANNYonPC discovered that the series’ official account had disappeared from the platform. Searching for ‘@battlefield’ now yields no results, and all of the tweets that used to be associated with that account are now longer available.

The @battlefield twitter account is gone!? pic.twitter.com/I0gOQ6xtckSeptember 10, 2020

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Elsewhere, FPS YouTuber JackFrags posted a new video (opens in new tab) earlier this week. Towards the end of that video, at the ten-minute mark, there’s a brief audio clip of a clock or stopwatch ticking. That might not mean anything by itself, but it seems to have been accompanied by a comment from a DICE employee.

Back on Twitter, senior designer Niklas Astrand responded to JackFrags’ post with the words “Tick tick tick…”. That almost certainly pertains to the stopwatch at the end of the video, but there’s no word on what it means.

Tick tick tick…September 8, 2020

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EA revealed that a new Battlefield game was in the works last year, potentially titled Battlefield 6 (opens in new tab), when it confirmed a release window in the 2022 financial year, which runs from April 2021 to March 2022. Previous entries have tended to release in the autumn, which would likely mean an October or November 2021 release if DICE were to follow the precedent it’s set in recent years.

There’s been no official word on a new game so far, but reports earlier this year suggest that the series will be returning to a modern setting similar (opens in new tab) to Battlefield 3, having focused on the first and second world wars for its previous two outings.

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