Battlefield

“Napoleonic battles are so beautiful. Like vast, lethal ballets… they all have an aesthetic brilliance that doesn’t require a military mind to appreciate.” So said Stanley Kubrick, who had long cherished the ambition of directing a film exploring the life of the Corsican-born artillery officer who rose to become the emperor of France. And Kubrick came close to doing so in the late 1960s, before being forced to abandon the project. This appreciation of the savage artistry of the great general’s battle strategies is a…

The United States military is not the unrivaled force it once was, but Alexandr Wang, CEO of startup Scale AI, told a congressional committee last week that it could establish a new advantage by harnessing artificial intelligence.“We have the largest fleet of military hardware in the world,” Wang told the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technology and Innovation. “If we can properly set up and instrument this data that’s being generated ... then we can create a pretty insurmountable data advantage…

Instead, Ukraine wants to use the data that’s being gathered for its own defense sector. “After the war has finished, Ukraine companies will go to the market and offer solutions that probably nobody else has,” Bornyakov says.Over the past few months, Ukraine has been talking up its ambitions to leverage its battlefield innovations to build a military-tech industry of its own.“We want to build a very strong defense tech industry,” says Nataliia Kushnerska, project lead for Brave1, a Ukrainian state platform designed to…

Instead that slogan says less about what the company does and more about why it’s doing it. Helsing’s job adverts brim with idealism, calling for people with a conviction that “democratic values are worth protecting.”Helsing’s three founders speak about Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014 as a wake-up call that the whole of Europe needed to be ready to respond to Russian aggression. “I became increasingly concerned that we are falling behind the key technologies in our open societies,” Reil says. That feeling grew as he…

As a somewhat lapsed first-person shooter fan in the modern era, it has been impossible to ignore the groundswell around BattleBit Remastered. Developed by the relatively unknown studios of SgtOkiDOki, Vilaskis, and TheLiquidHorse, the newly released early-access shooter could have easily fallen into obscurity thanks to its low-poly art style. Instead, it’s become a Steam sensation that’s beating some of the genre’s biggest powerhouses. Having felt the burn of Battlefield 2042‘s dearth of content, and falling off the…

EA has announced Arkangel Directive, a new limited-time event, will be coming to its shooter Battlefield 2042 as a part of a seasonal update. Its key feature is the new Control mode, which will be playable from July 11 at 5 PM PT/8 PM ET until July 25 at the same time.According to a Battlefield blog post, in Arkangel Directive, you'll play as a faction called the Arkangel Legion in Control, a 24v24 mode. This mode will be playable on three maps: Reclaimed, Orbital, and Valparaiso. You'll be tasked with…

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Electronic Arts is undergoing a massive internal restructuring, splitting EA Games' studios into two separate organisations. The shakeup has now formed separate divisions EA Sports and EA Games, with the latter further being rebranded to EA Entertainment. As the name suggests, EA Entertainment will build upon owned blockbuster IPs, as well as licensed ones through strong collaborations. However, the name change from ‘Games' to ‘Entertainment' suggests that the company is looking to expand into media beyond video games.…

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Battlefield 2042 will soon introduce major changes to some of the game's most popular vehicles as part of its upcoming Season 5 update, New Dawn.Vehicle loadouts are getting an overhaul come the update's arrival on June 7. Developer DICE's goal is to make it so the roles of different vehicles are more clearly defined. One big way DICE is looking to do that is by removing explosive weapon options from some of the game's most-used ground vehicles, including the LATV4 Recon. Despite the jeep's role as a…