EA Teases Battlefront in Epic Video

We already knew that DICE was developing the next game in the Star Wars Battlefront series, and we know that it's going to debut the new game in a week at Star Wars Celebration. Now, DICE has released a behind the scenes video showing the incredible amount of research and work they've done to get the feel of Star Wars right for this new game. They've gone to the Lucasfilm archives and studied the original props. They visited the actual filming locations for Hoth and Endor to recreate the feel of the worlds. And they show a brief selection of in-engine footage, to show you exactly what this new Battlefront is capable of. It's an incredible first look - take a peek after the jump.

Star Wars Battlefront to Debut at Celebration

If you've missed galavanting across the universe, meeting interesting beings, and then killing them, have we got news for you. We've all known since E3 2013 that Star Wars Battlefront was on its way back, from Battlefield Developers DICE, but now we finally know when we'll get to see more of it. EA Announced Today that Battlefront will make its debut at Star Wars Celebration, which means in less than a month we'll finally get to see what all the hype is about.

Can't make it to Celebration? No worries, we'll be there, tweeting and posting everything that happens at the convention. Keep your eyes here.

On Cheating, Honor, and Competition

Mike posted about me the other day.  It went something like this:

Seth.  Hey Seth.  Seth.  Seth, hey Seth.  Seth.  Write something.  Hey Seth, hey, write something.  Write something, Seth.  Write it.  Write something.  Seth.  Thanks. (write something).

Or at least that's what I got out of it.  Unfortunately, I didn't really know what to write about.  The tournament scene for miniature wargaming is winding down in this area, and most of you tune in for those pictures.  I'd covered most of the cons that went on, and the few that I had been to did not have large scale competitions.  None of you had any good ideas, so I was sitting around until my friend Dan tossed this little gem into my lap:

"Hey, did you hear about the Feast of Blades tournament in Denver?"

Google Search.  Read read read.  ooooooOOOOOOOoooooohhhh.

Apparently the champion of the tournament was accused of cheating, and immediately disqualified himself.  The allegation came from another person, who had found one of his dice under the table and saw that the die was not fair.  The champion made a public statement where he apologizes for the mistake.  He chose to disqualify himself and bow out of the tournament, declining his prize, trophy, and recognition.  Words like "honorable" and "do the right thing" and "honest mistake" were used to describe the situation.  Huh.  Ok, we'll come back to that later.