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Battlefield 3 is due out this fall and if the full 12 minute trailer for Digital Illusions' upcoming military first person shooter is any indication, the Call of Duty fan base might be considering a switch. The trailer (which has some language that is NSFW) takes us though just one mission in Iraq where your player character and his team encounter firefights, snipers, bombs and at the end a natural event.

The trailer's end also shows off some more snippets including tank battles, base jumping and fighter combat. It's going to be a long summer for fans before Battlefield 3 is released.

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Battlefield 2 is still one of the most influential games of all time. Its progression system was copied by Call of Duty 4, and the massive battles mixed with intense close-quarters infantry combat made it an instant classic. Play4Free returns to this after the smaller, more destruction-focused style of Bad Company 2, and this trailer gives us a good glimpse into what that means. The seamless blend of pre-rendered and in-game footage is a bit impressive, and the combat looks to be just as good as ever.

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Battlefield 3's creators at Digital Illusions continue to tease us with glimpses of gameplay from the upcoming first person shooter. Today sees the release of the third episode of the Fault Line trailer which shows off more of one of the game's missions.

The first half of the trailer shows some stealth action as a soldier tries to cut a wire that leads to an IED. The second half of the trailer is all shooting and action as we see lots of activity in the Middle Eastern war zone. The end of the trailer announces that the full gameplay footage from this Battlefield 3 demo, all 12 minutes of it, will be released on April 17.

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A few weeks ago reports hit the internet that a possible sequel to the 2008 sci-fi action game Mirror's Edge had been canceled. Now Computer and Video Games has posted up a chat with Electronic Arts' exec Frank Gibeau who said that the publisher is still looking to make a follow-up to the Digital Illusions-developed title.

Gibeau, the head of the EA Games brand, stated, "We're just trying to figure out how to bring Mirror's Edge back and in what way. That's part of the creative development process." He added that they were looking for ideas that would make the sequel sell two or three times as much as the original, stating, "We're actively working on ideas in the Mirror's Edge universe, we just haven't locked yet on a way to bring it back and a way that fans will be excited, but at the same time we can get it to a bigger audience."

This Battlefield 3 trailer is exciting for fans of the excellent military shooter series namely because it contains a fair amount of in-game footage. Granted, it's not multiplayer footage, and multiplayer is Battlefield's strong point, but it doesn't look bad either! It showcases the advance of a squad as they go to assist fellow soldiers at a potential chemical weapons facility, and the amount of detail put into the game at this early stage is quite impressive. Unfortunately, nothing of the new Frostbite 2 features are shown in this trailer, but we can always hope that DICE will show off more of their new engine in a future one.

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Battlefield 3 is slowly showing itself to the public. This morning the upcoming military shooter's official web site showed off a brief trailer that shows snips and quick shots of in-game footage from Digital Illusions' latest game. The footage shows a US Marine squad dealing with the enemy in Iraqi Kurdistan. We now have a local downloadable version of the trailer available to check out.

Publisher Electronic Arts has also confirmed the contents of the Battlefield 3 Limited Edition. As we reported earlier this month, people who pre-order the Limited Edition will get Frostbite Engine 2 versions of four maps from the previous game in the series Battlefield 2, along with other vehicles and weapons from that game.

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The newest update for Battlefield 2142 updates the game to v1.51, and it includes all the content from the Northern Strike booster pack for free! A number of fan-made maps and bug fixes are also found in this patch. Continue reading after the jump for a list of other fixes and changes.

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As expected, info from this month's Game Informer cover story on Battlefield 3 is making its way onto the internet. A post on the NeoGAF message board has some bullet points on what was revealed in the article which gives the first details on developer Digital Illusions' next first person shooter.

The article states that the PC version of the game is the lead platform which is good news for people who might have been afraid that we would be getting a dumbed down console port. We won't reveal too much more about the bullet points in the post but one that is mentioned is that the game might not get mod tools with the post stating that the new Frostbite 2 engine is so complex that any mod tools would have to be dumbed down. The post hints that DICE might not want to put in any resources for that to happen.

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While we wait for the info from Game Informer's print preview of Battlefield 3 to pop up on the internet, one of the game's designers, Digital Illusions' Alan Kertz, has been giving some hints about the developer's next military shooter to fans via his Twitter page.

While he's not commenting on some issues such as if an SDK will be released or what anti-cheat methods will be used, Kertz is telling fans some small tidbits. Knifes will be in the game as well dogtags, according to Kertz, but there won't be any grapples or zip wires. The bullet drop in the game will be deeper than in Battlefield Bad Company 2. There's a little debate on whether gamepads will have an aim assist for the PC version with Kertz saying, "My concern is people turning on aim assist with a mouse. If we have it you either get aim+pad or mouse, not both."

Battlefield 3 details are starting to leak out to the internet following the multiplayer shooter's official announcement on Friday. Computer and Video Games claims in a new story that a leaked ad for the game shows that the Limited Edition of the Digital Illusions-developed game will provide gamers from content from the series' last installment Battlefield 2.

Specifically, the Limited Edition is supposed to give gamers access to a special four level map pack containing revamped versions of classic Battlefield 2 maps but redone in Battlefield 3's new Frostbite 2 graphics engine. In addition vehicles and weapons from Battlefield 2 will show up in the Limited Edition of Battlefield 3 along with "unique rewards, new Achievements/Trophies and more." Folks who don't pre-order the Limited Edition version of the game will apparently still be able to access its extra via paid DLC sometime after the game is released.