Behind the Scenes With Battlefield 6

What we learned from the devs about the upcoming shooter.

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Robert Scarpinito
August 01, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

Battlefield is backlefield, according to our writer Erren Van Duine. She visited their studios in LA this week to see the latest in the upcoming blockbuster franchise, and she walked away pretty impressed.

The tone was a little edgy, but the gameplay she saw and played back up their boasts. With a stronger focus on squad gameplay and the new Kinesthetic Combat System, this could be the Battlefield that brings back more lapsed players.

Even better, EA confirmed it won’t sell the game for $80 when it launches on Oct. 10.

Move over, Fireplace for Your Home on Netflix—there’s a new cozy flame sim in town. Nintendo revealed a lot of ports and some new games at its partner showcase yesterday, including a few new HD2D games from Square Enix (did someone say Octopath?). Overall, things are looking solid for the Switch 2, with unit sales hitting 6 million just months after launch.

It’s not all good Nintendo news, though. Due to ongoing economic uncertainty (read: tariffs), prices for the original Switch family of products are going to rise. Yes, an 8-year-old system is getting a price hike.

Who knew printing digital cards would be so complicated? Turns out, the art for Ho-Oh from the latest expansion may or may not have been plagiarized. An investigation has opened up, but for now, the card has temporary placeholder art.

I’ll be honest, even if I see hands-on coverage of this game all over the internet in the next three weeks, I still won’t believe Silksong is real. It’s not until I can purchase it on a storefront that I’ll believe it might exist.

Do you remember seeing Light of Motiram and thinking, “Huh, that looks so familiar”? Well, folks at Sony thought the same thing. The company also alleges that it declined to work with Tencent on a Horizon spinoff game just before Light of Motiram was announced. Juicy if true.

The International Game Developers Association wants digital storefronts to be more transparent about their delisting of games in recent weeks, especially in light of many of these games being made from LGBTQ+ and marginalized creators.