From the Battlegroup 42 Website:

Rejoin the war in Europe and the Pacific with Battlegroup42 for BF:1942! The Battlegroup42 team releases the next update to the original Battlegroup42 mod including 16 new maps, a readjustment of the Tiger, IS-2 and Panther-D to BG42 1.0 values, many numerous fixes to armor, AI, and weapons – including further adjustments to the AT weapons and map corrections and balancing of previous BG42 maps.

15 New Maps: The update includes 15 maps from the map makers at Clan MOB, including 9 never-seen-before maps, 2 modifications to classic BF maps, and Battlegroup42 adaptations of 4 maps from the EA Match Map Pack. (The EA Match Map Pack is required to play these last four maps. You can get the pack from EA.) Screenshots from these maps have been shared in earlier news postings, but in addition to screenshots already shown, there are some new ones from Operation U-Go, the last map added to the update.

Read more for the 1.2 change list. Continue reading Battlegroup 42 1.2 Update released for BF42 →

In an update to the short interview that we did with the Forgotten Hope Mod team back in April, they made a big announcement today:

Flying in to the United Kingdom, Armin Ace visited an EA development studio together with several members from other mod teams for a two-day trip full of information, presentations and experiences. Right afterwards, many made a stop at Berlin to join the EA Community Event. News posters from the most known German community pages and developers from all sorts of mods reported in, as did our own news poster BUG$.

Battlefield 2 was no longer an unknown with only rumours and speculation to go on. Battlefield 2 became something tangible as we played the game and used the editor that will be at our disposal once the game is out. Finally we had a chance to see what BF2 is capable of, what it looks like, what it feels like, what tools we can use for modding. Finally we were able to compare BF1942 with BF2 and make an informed decision about porting the mod to the new engine. After this there is no longer a crossroad. The path has turned into a straight highway with only one direction to go: Battlefield 2

A nail in DICEs coffin or new era of great games?

” REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & STOCKHOLM, Sweden–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 19, 2005–In the period following the close of the acceptance period for Electronic Arts EA Holding ABs (“EA”) offer to the shareholders of Digital Illusions CE AB (publ) (“DICE”) on January 20, 2005, 807,428 DICE shares have been sold to EA in the market.”

“EA now controls a total of 6,852,148 shares, representing 67.8% of the outstanding capital and votes in DICE. On a fully diluted basis, assuming EA exercises its warrant to purchase 2,327,602 additional shares priced at SEK 47.23, this corresponds to 73.8% of the outstanding capital and votes.”

EA Investor Information

Linked via Planet Battlefield

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