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EA's Battlefield Labs test program is "the most ambitious community collaboration in franchise history"

Electronic Arts has launched Battlefield Labs, a new community test program it believes is "the most ambitious community collaboration in franchise history".

Addressing investors in its Q3 earnings call, CEO Andrew Wilson noted the response to the program thus far was "well beyond [EA's] expectations".

"[This] is the biggest Battlefield we will ever build or at least we have ever built to date. It exists on an incredible scale, both in terms of breadth and depth of gameplay in terms of that you can play this game," Wilson stated.

"And a big part of the modern development process that the team is taking is to test and tune everything to ensure that even as we launch something of this scale, it launches both stable and secure.

"And I think the combination of those two things is driving this initiative, which is Battlefield Labs, and the way the community has responded has been very positive to date," Wilson concluded.

In EA's latest earnings research, the business admitted Q3 was "not the financial performance we wanted or expected".

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I would bet money that Thunderbolts* is a stealth Dark Avengers movie

is a senior entertainment writer at Polygon, specializing in pop culture and genre fare, with a primary expertise in comic books. Previously, she founded The Mary Sue.

I think I know the purpose of the asterisk in Thunderbolts*, the title of the next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. And if I’m wrong I’ll — OK, I won’t promise to eat any articles of clothing. I’ve seen how that can backfire. But I would lay money down on it.

If you’re a longtime comics reader, my answer is not going to surprise you. But with Captain America: Brave New World in the marketing rearview and Marvel Studios going full steam on promoting Thunderbolts*, its own Suicide Squad-like, it’s a great time to unpack the reasoning for everyone else.

It seems obvious to me that Thunderbolts* is really a Dark Avengers movie.

Once upon a time, Marvel Comics had an event called Dark Reign — though it was less of a discrete crossover and more of a general era of storytelling, defined by Norman Osborn’s rise to significant power in the [website] government. Osborn (you might know him advanced as the Green Goblin) used that power, and the public goodwill he’d deceptively won, to go from director of the Thunderbolts to director of SHIELD to director of his own paramilitary force, HAMMER, supposedly an acronym, though Osborn declined to invent an actual name that the letters stood for. (It might be helpful context that Dark Reign was . Bush administration.).

At the apex of his rise, Osborn made sure that when the federal government decided to end its support for the Avengers, he would be in charge of making a new, government-approved superhero team to replace them. He put together a team of (mostly) supervillains disguised in the masks of real, publicly adored members of the Avengers — including Bullseye as Hawkeye, Moonstone as Ms. Marvel/Carol Danvers, Wolverine’s rebellious son Daken as Wolverine, and the Scorpion wearing the Venom symbiote as Spider-Man. He also built his own Iron Man-inspired suit, dubbing himself the Iron Patriot.

The Dark Avengers went through ups and downs over their history, but were often closely associated with that other superteam made up of supervillains, the Thunderbolts. Osborn used both teams to further his personal agendas of fame and retribution. After his fall from grace, the remaining Dark Avengers were even pressed into a new, more redemptive Thunderbolts program, overseen by Luke Cage.

Marvel’s ongoing Thunderbolts comics series even changed its name to reflect its new characters, from Thunderbolts to Dark Avengers. Do you see what I’m getting at here?

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Thunderbolts, under the thumb of CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, are already primed to fit the matchy-matchy style of the Dark Avengers, if perhaps not in a full-on “fool the public into thinking this is the real Hawkeye” sort of way.

Between Bucky, [website] Agent, and Red Guardian, the movie has three potential reflections of Captain America, and an easy successor to Black Widow in Yelena Belova. Who does Sentry stand in for? Take your pick: He’s got the godlike power of a Thor and the “You wouldn’t like me when I’m the Other Guy” factor of the Hulk. Also, Sentry was a founding member of Osborn’s original Dark Avengers.

Thunderbolts* simply rhymes too much with Norman Osborn’s superteam to ignore. I fully expect that one of the movie’s final scenes will be its end title card resolving to one that says Dark Avengers. But there’s one more reason I’m so sure of my bet.

You can’t have an Avengers movie without some folks who call themselves the Avengers. (Well, I suppose you could, but it would be silly.).

Kevin Feige has stated that fans should expect to see the heroes of Captain America: Brave New World, Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Thunderbolts* in Avengers: Doomsday, the first MCU crossover flick since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, hitting screens almost exactly a year after Thunderbolts*. So who’s putting the “Avengers” in Avengers: Doomsday?

*I’d bet money it’ll be the Thunderbolts — I mean, the Dark Avengers.

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Viktor Antonov, the key mind behind Half-Life 2's City 17, has died

One of video gaming's great urban fabulists, Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored visual designer Viktor Antonov, has died at the young age of 52.

While there has yet to be a formal announcement from Antonov's family, several of his old colleagues have posted goodbye messages on social media. "I didn't want to say much till I felt it was confirmed, but I learned today that Viktor Antonov, our visionary art lead on HL2, has died," Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw wrote in an Instagram post passed on by Eurogamer. "I don't have details. Just sadness. Brilliant and original. Made everything more effective."

"RIP Viktor Antonov," added WolfEye Studios creative director and Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio on Twitter. "I wish I told you how much admiration I had for you but we get caught in our lives until a surprise lime this hits us. You were instrumental to the success of Arkane Studios and an inspiration to many of us, also a friend with whom I have many fond memories."

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Antonov started out in gaming as a map painter for Redneck Rampage in 1997. He subsequently worked on art deco-inspired shooter Kingpin: Life Of Crime, before landing a reputation-making job at Valve in 2004. He was the principle mind behind Half-Life 2's City 17, a wintry expanse of Brutalist concrete and Combine panopticons, which continues to influence more pessimistic sci-fi game developers today. I'm confess, I'm more fond of his achievements as visual designer for Dishonored's oily brickwork labyrinth Dunwall.

Following the release of Dishonored, Antonov worked in more of a supporting role on several ZeniMax Media projects. He consulted on development of 2016's Doom reboot and 2017's Prey. He also worked on a number of cancelled games, including Arkane's hybrid FPS The Crossing and Bethesda Game Studios Austin's multiplayer offering Battlecry. In 2022, Antonov co-founded Eschatology Entertainment to work on the mysterious Project DG, a game about a gunslinger exploring a world "on the verge of destruction".

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