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EA Developing FIVE Battlefield Titles

If this is not overkill, then god knows what is. Speaking to Next-Gen, Ben Cousins, the producer of upcoming Battlefield: Heroes has revealed that 5 Battlefield titles are currently in development by EA.

We’ve got five [Battlefield] titles in development, which is more than you’d expect,” Cousins revealed, noting that the Battlefield Heroes project began after DICE visited Seoul, South Korea-based Neowiz in the summer of 2006, a firm in which EA purchased a 19 percent stake.

Fallout 3 Not “Dumbed down” for consoles

In an interesting interview with Next-Gen, Bethesda Softworks’s Emil Pagliarulo (Fallout 3 lead designer) had a handful of things to say regarding the recent developer spree of dumbing down titles to appeal to a larger audience.

It’s funny. I look at Fallout when I play it every day, and I sometimes think that there’s a lot of old-school hardcore PC stuff in there too, and part of me thinks, “God, is this too inaccessible for console players?” There’s a lot of dialogue to read, a lot of just hacking computers and looking through things like “VAT.” I don’t know. Sometimes I think it’s just the opposite. So I don’t feel like we’re dumbing down the franchise.

…I think we’re starting to find that there is a market for [hardcore "PC RPGs" on consoles]. People like myself and some people that work here actually grew up as hardcore PC guys, and now we’re older, we have kids, we don’t have that much time, so we’ve transitioned. We’re console players now.

You can also hear Emil Pagliarulo on the GameTheoryShow.com podcast.