New Battlefield Game Now Has a Release Window With “Major” Reveal Set for Summer; BF Labs “Exceeded Expectations”
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While the in-development Battlefield game is currently being tested, it’s still a mystery when we’ll actually get to play it. Publisher Electronic Arts hasn’t revealed just when we’ll be able to do that, but the company did confirm a release window for the game in today’s quarterly financials report.
According to EA, Battlefield fans can now mark the game down to be released before March 2026.
New Battlefield Game Getting Full Reveal This Summer
During the quarterly earnings presentation, EA CEO Andrew Wilson mentioned that the new Battlefield game will be released sometime in Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 2026), which ends in March 2026. This means that the shooter could be released anytime this year, and no later than March 2026.
In addition, Wilson announced that the game’s “major” reveal is set for this summer, which we’re going to assume will be in June at Summer Game Fest.
Wilson also discussed Battlefield Labs, mentioning how the shooter’s testing branch has “far exceeded expectations ” and confirming that testing will soon expand to Asia. Wilson adds that EA has observed over 350 million views on Battlefield content since Battlefield Labs was officially announced.
Unless the game is in really rough shape, which it doesn’t seem to be based on what we’ve seen from its pre-alpha build, EA could very well release Battlefield 6 (or whatever it’s called) in fall 2025. It’s now clear from competition outside Call of Duty since Rockstar has pushed Grand Theft Auto 6’s release to May 2026. Unless EA wants to release close to GTA 6 or play musical release date chairs with Take-Two, I doubt they’d want to be anywhere near that juggernaut.
The US’ summer starts in June and ends in September, so we should be seeing the game’s official reveal soon-ish. Once we know more, we’ll let our readers know.
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Well dang, so if it comes out this year we can expect it to be a buggy mess because they rushed it out. If they can cook this for another 10 months, they should! Don’t crunch the dev team, and give this game time to be the best possible iteration it can be. If they launch a broken mess this year, the franchise is dead to everyone.
I’m hoping for a Feb release date.