Battlefield V aerial dogfight.
Battlefield V aerial dogfight.
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Battlefield V goes to Norway and Rotterdam to avoid familiar WWII landscapes

The battlefields of Battlefield V won’t be totally familiar with gamers, and that’s the way that the designers at publisher Electronic Arts’ DICE studio want it.

They wanted to bring Battlefield back to World War II, but not to the familiar scenes that we’ve played in earlier games or watched in war movies, said DICE senior producer Lars Gustavsson in a press briefing. This anticipated Battlefield game coming in October this year for the PC and consoles.

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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.