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Battlefield 1: EA takes its shooter into trenches of World War I

Electronic Arts is getting ready to rumble with the futuristic rival Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare by going back in time.

Today, EA announced its new Battlefield 1 game, set in the trenches of World War I. It’s release is set for October 21, the middle of gaming’s blockbuster season during the holiday shopping rush. Battlefield has been slugging it out with Call of Duty for years to be the No. 1 franchise on the shooter market. Rival Activision Blizzard showed off Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare this week, taking the $15 billion series into the far future, where humanity has settled the solar system, and space has become militarized.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.