Tag Archives: Star Wars Battlefront (2015)

Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab)trivia time: the bleeps and bloops of R2 in the game are actually the heavily processed recordings of sound designer Ben Minto’s son. And, before we go on, he wanted to to clarify that by ‘R2’ Ben actually means R2 unit or ‘generic astromech’, …

Update: It’s confirmed (opens in new tab), you’ll be able to play as Han, Leia, and Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars Battlefront. Original story: It’s been more than a month since EA and DICE teased the next hero reveal for Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab) – but it …

With its open Beta set to kick off across all platforms on 8 October (with it arriving a cheeky five days earlier on Xbox One), Star Wars Battlefront couldn’t get any more hype. But it turns out the things could have been very different had Battlefield developer DICE chosen to …

Everyone who still says Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab) is just Battlefield with blasters: this is the closest you’ll likely get to an “I told you so” moment. EA and DICE have laid out the details on Battlefront’s Supremacy mode, and though it has a lot in common …

Ground combat is for suckers – everybody knows it’s all about the X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. EA and DICE have offered up the first teaser of Star Wars Battlefront (opens in new tab)’s Fighter Squadron mode, with a brief trailer showing X-wings, A-wings, TIE fighters, and TIE interceptors locked in …

Looks like there are going to be a few surprises in Star War Battlefront (opens in new tab) if you’re expecting a re-skinned Battlefield. There are no classes or squads – two things you sort of take as a given in most DICE shooters. Well, any multiplayer shooter full stop. …

I knew it would come. It always does. Out there, in the dark corners of the internet, pools of thick, black, sentient negativity are always watching. Always watching, and always waiting, for the first hint of focused joy and excitement, so that they might jump upon it and try to …

What’s Star Wars without space battles? Well, just Wars, I guess. Anyway, this episode we take our favorite gameplay features from the space-bound Star Wars titles of the past and look at how DICE could use those ideas to create a badass dogfighting mode. Watch the episode below and be …

We have very little to go on with DICE’s upcoming Battlefront title in terms of what battles we’ll be spraying our blaster bolts in. That’s why this week, we talk about the possibility of the developers returning to the Clone Wars era and letting us fight in the battle of …