Battlefront II DLC Will Include Last Jedi Content

It's the most wonderful season of the year; Star Wars season. With Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: Battlefront II set to release very soon, it should come as a welcome surprise that the game will have content from the movie.

Publisher EA announced today that the first release of new and free content will feature both heroes and locations from the upcoming film days before The Last Jedi releases in theaters. The game will also add two multiplayer locations on Crait, one for Starfighter Assault and one for ground battle. Resistance players will also have to option to pilot a new ship, called Tallie Lintra's modified A-Wing. This is likely from the upcoming film. Lastly, the game will receive an update to the single player campaign on Dec 13 regarding Commander Iden Versio's story line and heroes Finn and Captain Phasma will be added.

On Dec 5, Battlefront 11 will also begin to encourage players to chose a side, either Resistance or First Order, by enabling challenges that grant faction-related rewards. Factions with the most points during a week will earn high-powered upgrade crates for their respective heroes, either Finn or Phasma.

As promised by EA, all content released post-launch will be free to play. Players can receive a 10-hour head start to play the game if players join Origins Access or EA Access.

Battlefront 11 will be available on Nov 17 and The Last Jedi hits theaters on Dec 15.

EA Games Releases a New Series of Images for Battlefront 2

EA has released new images for the upcoming video game, Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Following the Saturday release of the gameplay trailer, these new images bring even more insight to the highly anticipated game.

Battlefront 2 will bring a never before seen side of the Empire and First Order through a single player campaign, a first for the game series. The multiplayer has also been expanded on with highly customizable characters, maps on several planets, and allowing players to take control of heroes from all eras, from the Clone Wars to the sequels. The game developers have also revamped the vehicle system and will allow players to take control of a wider array of vehicles, both on the ground and in the sky.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is set to be released on November 11, 2017.

Battlefront's Game-play Launch Trailer REVEALED!

By: David Sanchez

This morning, EA posted their final gameplay trailer for the upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront! Showing everything from Walker Assault Mode to Fighter Squadron, it was jam packed with information and awesome action.

The trailer opens on Tatooine and a voice over by Sam Witwer as the Emperor: "It is unavoidable. We will witness the destruction of the Alliance and the end of this insignificant Rebellion."

Sounding haunting as ever, Witwer voiced the Emperor in the Force Unleashed game series as well. He adds a creepiness to the voice that is unparalleled by any who came before him. Aside from his great performance, he is also a great guy and a big Star Wars fan. I had a chance to meet with him and talk to him at Star Wars Celebration this past April. He loves Star Wars and it shows through his work. Sitting in the same room with him as we experienced the Star Wars gameplay trailer reveal at the convention and seeing the joy that it brought him was awesome.

Throughout the trailer we also get our first glimpse at many of the playable alien races such as Twi'leks, Sullustans, Rodians, Quarren, Zabraks, and Duros. I was actually suprised with the amount of differing human character faces as well! 

Along with the numerous character choices, all of the heroes were showcased as well. We got to hear some of their diologue and see some of their powers in action, from the Emperors Force Lightning, to Boba Fett's flamethrower, and Princess Leia's squad abilities. All of these powers look awesome and look like they all have a great use within the game.

We only have a few more weeks (20 days to be exact), until the game launches, so be ready to live out all of your Star Wars fantasies! See you on the Battlefield.

Star Wars Battlefront releases on Xbox One, PS4, and on PC, on November 17! 

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Canceled Darth Maul Game Revived?

Cannon Adams

"At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge!"

The game that was in development back in 2010 may be RESURRECTED! Darth Maul was supposed to have his own game based saber slasher in ways similar to The Force Unleashed games up until it was canceled. The Darth Maul game was developed by Red Fly Studio and was called Battle of the Sith Lords following fan favorite Darth Maul. When Disney took over all Star Wars productions of movies and video games, Disney canceled the project when took ownership back in 2012 as well they canceled the highly anticipated game Star Wars 1313. Yea remember that game that we were all jacked up and excited for because of it being based around Boba Fett? Ill let that sink into your minds!

Moving forward! Red Fly Studios is currently on the move to push Battle of the Sith Lords game to license holder EA. EA and DICE is to release the most highly anticipated shooter Star Wars Battlefront so Red Fly Studios decided why not push it to EA? 

Red Fly's Dan Borth said in an Ask Me Anything session saying:

"We are currently working on a full next gen demo of all things Maul to show to the powers that be. It's been a lot of work on our off time. We have been burning a candle for this game since it was killed in hopes we can get it turned back on again. IF that is to happen we need to approach EA with a demo that will impress them. I think we have that or are close to it. Still, it is completely not up to us."

Darth Maul got sliced in half in Star Wars The Phantom Menace and later returned to The Clone Wars animated series and then later after the show got canceled thanks to Disney, Dark Horse Comics wrote a 4 part series called Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir following the events during the clone wars after the canceled series. So what else has Darth Maul been doing since? Dan Borth says that the game takes place before The Phantom Menace to show young Darth Maul at age 9 or 11 to show what he went through to become a Sith. 

Dan says:

"We felt that Maul could be a character that you cheered for because he was so ferocious. Like a wild animal. We didn't want to humanize Maul like Dexter but we wanted to explain what happened to him and you could see why he turned out the way he did."

Borth also said that sections of the game would follow Darth Krayt.

Because of Star Wars Battlefront is set to be canon to the story of Star Wars, Red Fly would re-skin the game with a new character or one closely tied to the classics or the upcoming Star Wars The Force Awakens.

"Hopefully EA will see the value in us reskinning our combat mechanic to be more in line with what they are thinking for Star Wars if they were not interested in Maul. We would need to complete our vertical slice of the game -- a fully functioning complete portion of the game or as close to it as possible and put it in front of EA, and also talk with Disney. EA has the rights to Star Wars on console and PC so it would be up to them to greenlight it. For them, they would need to be convinced we could do the game and that it fit into their new vision."

If Dan Borth with Red Fly Studios succeed in impressing EA and convincing Disney to give the green light to resurrect Battle of the Sith Lords, then there shouldn't be a problem resurrecting LucasArts Star Wars 1313. I wish Dan Borth a good luck trying to pass this game through and I believe that us fans would be more than happy to see another canon story of Darth Maul showing his youth years. Millions of fans love Darth Maul just as much as they do with Boba Fett. So I say this to both EA and Disney, resurrect both Darth Maul: Battle of the Sith Lords and Star Wars 1313 with next gen graphics just like the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront!

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Announcement: Star Wars: Battlefront To Have No Server Feature Included

By: Cannon Adams

Well Star Wars fans, EA has released another piece of info that everyone is going to be disappointed with. EA confirmed that there will be no server feature. This means that when you go and search for your favorite server when you go into multiplayer back in the Battlefield days, you were able to join in a new fresh server or a certain mode only server and have fun and have your friends join you on that server as well. EA took that feature off. So this is going to be very hard for people to play with their actual friends on Battlefront and forced to play with new people every time. This is what EA has to say:

"Regarding the recently announced Star Wars Battlefront Beta, our servers will use a skill-based matchmaking system to pair players together. Players just need to fire up the beta and select what game mode they want to play".

So the beta itself is not going to have the server selection option when they give us Walker Assault on Hoth and you get to play both as either Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker and also a Survival Mission on Tatooine, Does this mean that there is going to be no server selection on the full game as well? After reading about this no server nonsense I will answer there will not be server selections. EA wanted every player to play with other people as well than just your friends. I hope EA know's what they are doing because if you separate people's friends from playing together, people will be mad because there are clans out there wanting to play together against other clans.

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Exclusive: EA's Star Wars Battlefront Beta Date Revealed!

By: Cannon Adams

When EA revealed Star Wars Battlefront back on April for Celebration 7 in Anaheim California, the world was stunned as to the details of the game and the Star Wars feel in Battlefront. Fans have been asking for months now "When is the Beta going to release?" Well the answer has finally come from EA. 

The Beta is set to release early October on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on Origin. According to official EA website for Battlefront, the Beta is a technical test and will feature Walker Assault on Hoth which is a 40-player multiplayer battle featuring the Rebels and the Empire. Walker Assault will also give you the chance to play the 2 most iconic characters in the Star Wars Universe, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. The Beta will also feature a survival mission on Tatooine where you and a friend fight back waves of imperial forces. The Beta also gives us a brand new mode called Drop Zone. No other details about drop zone as of yet. 

Like all the other past EA/DICE games with the Battlefield franchise, Star Wars Battlefront will also be getting it's very own Companion App. The companion app will feature a strategic card Base Command. The app also lets Rebels and Imperials check game stats and progression, customize load-outs, appearances, connect with friends, and get notifications when your friends are playing Star Wars Battlefront. The app will be available on the web and in the Apple App Store and Google Play store prior to the release of Star Wars Battlefront on November 17th. 

So finally we get word of the release of the Beta test on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC for early October. The next news we should hear about which may come after the Beta is released or maybe later this September is the announcement of the Star Wars Battlefront Collectors Edition. We want that statue of whatever it is, we want concept art book, its been 10 years of suffering, we fans deserve it. Don't forget to pre-order your copy of Battlefront at your local GameStop store and receive this limited quantity poster when you pick up the game on November 17th. 

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EA's Star Wars Battlefront Does Not Share "A Single System” With The Battlefield Series

By: Justin Marsh

As we get more and more closer to the release date of EA's and DICE's Battlefront, the more we'ere convinced of purchasing the game due to all of it's included content as well as the opportunities that we are getting out of it. Alongside the recently revealed Supremacy super-matches and the flying death machine that is Boba Fett, DICE is proving it doesn't need the military mayhem of Battlefield to make an addictive shooter. In fact, it turns out new Star Wars FPS doesn't any systems with DICE's main franchise.

This is what the official Playstation magazine had to comment on this:

"I don’t think we have a single system in the game that is the same as in Battlefield,” DICE’s general manager Patrick Bach explains in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine. “They are as far apart as any shooter would be to any other shooter. I think people will be surprised that it’s even a DICE game in some cases, but I think that the quality of the game and the quality of the audio, the visuals, the emotion it evokes will hopefully feel very DICE."

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Star Wars: Battlefront Cuts It's Single Player - And This Is The Reason Why

By: Justin Marsh

Star Wars: Battlefront is is slowly but very surely shaping up to be one of the largest video games of the fall, and by EA none the less. But as these past few days, some fans have been upset that despite how good it may look, Battlefront will not come with a single-player based campaign. Rather, the entire game is either deathmatch, multiplayer or co-op in individualized missions.

Below is what EA’s Peter Moore recently spoke about the decision to Gamespot:

"You make a decision, years out, and you plan for what the world looks like when a game ships in two or three years. That’s about the intuitiveness about the executive producer, and his or her vision for the game."

"Between when a dev team starts work on a game, and when it finishes, the world becomes a different place. I remember when we started work on Star Wars: The Old Republic; at the time, the model to go for was subscription. By the time we had the game ready, the model to go for wasn’t subscriptions."

"…very few people actually play the single-player on these kinds of games. That’s what the data points to."

Personally us Nerds and hard core gamer's are pretty alright with EA's decision on this matter. Now of course you might that's idiotic. But if you think about it with a VERY open mind, you could quickly come to a conclusion that most people who brought Battlefront I & II only played single player no more then once or twice and then quickly went onto Gamespy's mutiplayer platform to go up against other live players. Other games such as The Force Unleashed, Shadows Of The Empire, and even Empire At War, had a great story driven experience to them of course, but I think the purpose of Battlefront is to create epic land and space battles using Star Wars ships and soldiers, and not so much of a heart pounding story plot within the EU, OT or PT.

Don't get me wrong, the campaign was loads of fun, but in today's world, gamer's love being able to compete against one another instead of fighting the AI itself. Even though AI killing is cool in your spare time, people don't tend to really do it much. What I think we could see that would actually please the fans more, would be to include AI alongside the live players during combat to make it a better gaming experience and maybe make it less of a hassle to join a server. I could see that being far more superior to campaign instead of playing one story over and over again, or basically sitting in a queue waiting for other players to join in on a match for you to be able to play a game in mutiplayer.

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Star Wars Battlefront Fighter Squadron Teaser Review

By: Cannon Adams

Before I get started here let me just take a moment to (breathe in deep, exhale, and nerd out). STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT IS AMAZING!!! Now yes it is still early to give that award to EA and DICE because the game has not released yet, but the last teaser that was showed at Gamescom 2015 was just pure amazing. 

Click Here to watch the new teaser of Battlefront's new mode, Fighter Squadron!

When we all saw that picture teaser and the words saying "Prepare For Take Off" we all knew we were going to have a mode with ships.

The graphics are looking better and better with these teasers we have been getting since its first debut back at E32013 and the game looks promising already. Fans over the course of months have been complaining about the game already because of either no story mode, space battles, all multiplayer, the game is by EA and they are "horrible" with games, etc. Well not to bash EA but that Battlefield Hardline did not do it for me, sorry EA but I still prefer Battlefield 4. But Battlefront looks promising already and I believe it has met expectations. 

Fighter Squadron mode is going to kick some butt because us fans get to do some dog fighting in the air of each planet that is in the game and have great times like when we had with Battlefront 2. Yes it is still not the same because Fighter Squadron is planet based and not space based, but hey at least we are getting a mode where we can fly our favorite ships. The attention to detail of the ships, explosions and the view of the map area is just pure amazing and I believe EA and DICE are going to be receiving positive feedback's from the fans and hopefully the fans will love EA and DICE for fully taking over the future Star Wars games. So let us all hope that EA and DICE wins best shooter of the year over Call of Duty! Just had to throw that in there! Now the next question that we all keep asking is, When will we get to see the collectors edition so we can go pre-order? That info is still not mentioned yet so hopefully during the D23 Expo since EA is going to be making a appearance there for Battlefront, we finally get some info of a collector's edition!

 Star Wars Battlefront releases on November 17th. You can pre-order the game at Gamestop or gamestop.com, origin.com. When you pre-order Battlefront at GameStop you get this limited edition poster when you pick up the game on November 17th. For online pre-orders on gamestop.com, print out the emailed receipt and take it to your local GameStop.

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Star Wars Battlefront PC Requirements Revealed!

By: Cannon Adams

The time has come for us Star Wars fans that the system requirements of Star Wars Battlefront for PC has been revealed today. So far these requirements is based off for the release of the alpha test that is to be released at a later date. Below are the requirements so if your PC is not up to date, you have time to do some upgrades if necessary.

PC: Requirements:

• CPU: Quad Core CPU e.g. Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.8 GHz or AMD Phenom II x4 955 @ 3.2 GHz or
• AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz
• RAM: 6 GB
• OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64-bit operating system required)
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD 7970 with 2 GB of Video Memory

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Star Wars Battlefront Update: No Death Star Space Station Map

We all know that we were not going to be getting space maps of any kind. But now EA has officially confirmed that we will not be seeing one of our favorite iconic maps, The Death Star space station map. Here is what EA had to say on the subject:

“We will not offer a Death Star based map. But stay tuned for details around the maps we will offer,” offered EA community managers in a recent Reddit thread."

So what else are we not going to receive? I hope that one day in a DLC pack we will get some space missions and hopefully give us the death star space station map.

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