Fighter Squadron in Star Wars Battlefront.
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Star Wars Battlefront features ‘fighter squadron’ combat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Electronic Arts unveiled more details and scenes from Star Wars: Battlefront, the big console and PC game that is coming this fall. The latest reveal: fighter squadron combat. You can fight some serious aerial battles inside the cockpits of iconic Star Wars spacecraft.

EA made the revelation during its press briefing at Gamescom 2015, the big game fan event in Cologne, Germany. You can fly Tie Fighters, Y-wings, X-wings, and the Millennium Falcon.

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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.