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Next 'Battlefield' Expanding Playtesting, Will Be Officially Announced This Summer, Launching Before March 2026

by Rainier on May 6, 2025 @ 2:01 p.m. PDT

Battlefield Studios, which houses four storied studios DICE, Ripple Effect, Motive and Criterion, announced Battlefield Labs, a community testing program for the next title in the Battlefield franchise.

“As we look to the future, we’re confident in our ability to execute across a deep pipeline — beginning this summer with the highly anticipated reveal of Battlefield, a pivotal step in delivering on our next generation of blockbuster entertainment," said Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts.

Year-over-year net bookings growth in fiscal year 2026 is expected to be driven by the EA SPORTS portfolio, The Sims, and the launches of Battlefield and skate.

In February, DICE announced Battlefield Labs as its most ambitious community collaboration in franchise history to validate the future of Battlefield. Today, we'll update you on our initial learnings and how we'll continue to scale testing into the future.

Across our four initial play sessions with a small group of core Battlefield players across Europe and North America, we’ve completed thousands of hours of gameplay, had hundreds of thousands of player spawns, and seen over a million environmental objects destroyed, including walls, windows, crates, and buildings your squad crashed the helicopter into. The players in these sessions have helped us successfully validate the following areas:

  • Establishing a solid foundation for smooth, low-latency and high-performance gunplay.
  • Finding the right balance in movement speed for functionality such as crouch sprint, combat rolling, and vaulting as part of our combat pacing initiatives.
  • Using destruction to create fun and lasting tactical gameplay across rounds and experiences.

Exploring new ideas for the future and receiving direct player feedback continues to be a crucial aspect of the Battlefield Labs process. Even if some ideas never reach release, it helps us understand and refine elements that resonate most with players as we continue to build Battlefield together. It's been a valuable and exciting experience for our team and community so far, and we're looking forward to continuing that collaboration alongside you!

WHAT'S NEXT

Now that we’ve wrapped up initial server performance and stability concerns, we’ve validated a solid foundation for a core Battlefield experience. We’re now ready to continue scaling Battlefield Labs testing globally.

Throughout May, we’ll be inviting more players across Europe and North America, and will start to include select areas of Asia.

longside testing new content, we'll continue to iterate on our initial focus areas, such as balancing the different weapon archetypes and damage values, as well as movement and combat pacing mechanics. Destruction also remains an ongoing topic across our play sessions. We’ll continue to test destructible objects across a variety of maps and fine-tune damage levels of surfaces.

Following Community Updates on Gunplay and Destruction, we'll be back in the future to talk more about classes and the all-out warfare experience.

GET INVOLVED

If you're excited to help us validate the future of Battlefield then you can still sign-up now. Read our FAQ if you’d like to learn more, and be sure to join the discussion on our Battlefield Discord

Battlefield Labs continues to show us what is possible when our community comes together alongside us to collaborate, and we thank everyone who has joined us on this journey so far.

We’re looking forward to what’s next with you!

//The Battlefield Team

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