Battlefield 3: Close Quarters Donya Fortress Gameplay Trailer

EA/DICE released a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming Battlefield 3 expansion pack Close Quarters – to be released in June.

Showcasing the brand new “Conquest Domination” mode on the map “Donya Fortress”, the new trailer demonstrates very clearly that Close Quarters is going to be focused on tight infantry-only combat.

So far it looks to promote a pretty intense style of gameplay, with the potential for tons of kills in notime. Is that good or bad? I guess it depends entirely on your preferences.

I’ll give it a go for sure, but personally I’m more excited about the Armored Kill expansion coming this autumn.
 

Battlefield 3: “Everyday I’m Javelin” Fan Music Video

The Next Gen Dual GPU Cards: Specs & Rumors

Rumors have been circulating that AMD would be launching the Radeon HD 7990 soon after NVIDIA launched their Kepler debut card, the GTX 680.
It has yet to happen, but let’s take a look at the rumored specs for the AMD HD 7990 “New Zealand”:
  • Two “Tahiti” GPU chips clocked at a lower than HD 7970 speed of 850 MHz, connected via an onboard CrossFire bridge chip.
  • 6 GBs of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1250 MHz (5 GHz effective), divided in two for 3 GB per GPU, on 2 x 384-bit buses.
  • 62 compute units with a total of 4096 (2 x 2048) Stream Processors and 256 (2 x 128) texture units.
  • TDP of  ~330 watts (max power use in watts).
  • DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4.2 hardware support.
  • PCI-Express 3.0 compliant.
NVIDIA plans to tackle the HD 7990 with the GeForce GTX 690, a similar dual GPU solution. Continue reading

Battlefield 3 Spring Patch PC Release March 29th: More Details

The PC version of the Spring patch for Battlefield 3 has now been confirmed for release on March 29th at 9AM UTC / 11 AM CET.

The patch will be a hefty 1.6 GB download, so brace yourselves if you have less than high speed Internet access.

EA/DICE have highlighted a few more things that are changing the game dynamics in this update, which I have summed up in short as follows: Continue reading

Battlefield 3 Spring Patch Released for PlayStation 3

At 1080 MB, the new “Spring” patch is a hefty download.

The patch now brings the game to version 1.04, and with this new patch, DICE have really sold out, by allowing kids to buy so called “shortcut” packs which unlock everything for each class (Kit Shortcut Bundle) or vehicle (Vehicle Shortcut Bundle), or the “Ultimate Bundle” which simply unlocks everything.

Wow … what a sell-out move. Keep going, DICE. Soon you’ll be just as bad as Activision.

Oh, and the new rent-a-server program for the PS3 was launched along with the new patch. According to online sources, they’re all sold out already.

Battlefield 3 Spring Patch Release Dates, Final Changelist Confirmed

EA have confirmed that the long-awaited “Spring” patch for Battlefield 3 will be released earlier for the PlayStation 3, on March 27, with PC and Xbox 360 to follow soon after (final dates are still to be announced).

This patch is a big one, and contains a lot of fixes that will change the dynamics of many of the guns, addons and add content that has been requested by us, the gamers, since day one. For consoles, a new “Rent a Server” option has been added (more info to follow on that next week).

Below the break is the final and confirmed, complete changelist. I’ve highlighted some changes with red text and added some illustrations as well.

The new additions since this post was originally posted, such as the new commo rose for the PC, are found at the bottom. Continue reading