With the glitz and glamour of Eurovision fading into reminiscence, it’s nearly time for That Other E Event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. E3’s advertising blitz appears to start earlier every year, and I’ve a sneaking suspicion I’m already in it however haven’t totally realised but, and now right here come Electronic Arts teasing the formal announcement of Battlefield V. Coming forward of a giant livestreamed occasion on Wednesday, the wee teaser video reveals a steampunk gesturing for us to close up. Or perhaps inviting us to place our fingers in his mouth? I’m not fairly positive. At the very least, it lends credence to rumours that builders Dice are taking the collection again to World War 2 with this 12 months’s sport.
Battlefield’s Twitter account tweeted this lippy fella this afternoon:
Look intently and aha!
The two staff icons on the multiplayer scoreboard there seem like the Union Flag and an Iron Cross-ish doodad, the image sometimes utilized by video video games who don’t need to present swastikas. Rumours had urged that V would take the FPS collection again to its World War 2 roots, and this would possibly help that – although the Iron Cross isn’t only a WW2 image. It does depart World War 1 as a risk too, following on from 2016’s Battlefield 1, however I might be shocked if Dice aren’t Twoing it up this time. Sequelised franchises get itchy ft, y’know.
The big reveal livestream goes dwell at 9pm (1pm Pacific) on Wednesday the 25th. The blurb says it is going to present us “how the battlefield will never be the same”, which is actually a daring declare. We’ll have a roving reporter on the bottom to scrutinise that.
