Battlefield 1's Sinai Desert map.
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Battlefield 1’s open beta takes you to one of World War I’s lesser-known campaigns: the Sinai Desert

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I was scurrying across the Sinai Desert today in the open beta test for Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 1 game.

The new Battlefield is one of the biggest games of the fall season, debuting on the PC and consoles on October 21. EA was no doubt eager to spread the world about Battlefield 1’s gameplay before rival Activision held its Call of Duty XP event this weekend in Los Angeles, where it will show extended demos of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

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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.