Millions of fans that have played Battlefield 2 over the past few years have been eagerly awaiting for any news concerning the sequel to BF2. Since the infamous Battlefield 3 DigitalBattle leak in October 2007 we really have not seen any more news on the (hopefully) upcoming title. Just a few months ago CEO of DICE semi/confirmed the game being in development by saying that “Battlefield 3 will blow everyone away”. Well its been days/months/years and still nothing. But wait, there is a shiny new beacon on the horizon (well two)…
The first one is the E3 show premiering on June 15 2010 that might bring an end to the BF3 news drought.
Read more here: (Battlefield 3 To Be Announced @ E3 Expo)
The second sign of hope is a recently discovered “whoops”. One of our regulars have sent us a screen shot of what seems to be the box art cover for Battlefield 3. This was supposedly taken while deep scanning Battlefield home directories hosted on EA.com
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http://bf3nation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/battlefield-3-boxart.jpg
Battlefield 3 box art leaked
BF3 BoxArt
The image points to this URL:
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/themes/battlefield/images/bf3/boxart/battlefield3.jpg
(UPDATE: After releasing this story the link was pulled and the directory does not exist.)
WHY OH WHY MUST YOU TAUNT US EA/DICE?
So what can we tell from this screen shot? Not much. It seems that they are expecting the game to have an “M” (for Mature) rating. Could we see a BFBC2 type foul language? Gory images? Excessive blood? There is too much to speculate. Also embedded in the “3” is a single soldier who is sporting (from what it looks like) a M60 machine gun (correct me if I am wrong) The box also includes a “Game for Windows” logo which might suggest PC exclusivity (which was predicted, but fears of ports still haunt our souls)
(UPDATE #2: Just received news that the original source of this screen shot has many more of them. We will try our best to reach him and update our galleries so stay tuned)
(UPDATE #3: We are getting lots of fan mail thanks to this story and we would like to give something back to our readers. In the spirit of the “box art mayhem” BF3Nation is now holding a contest for the BEST BF3 cover creation. The grand prize is (hold your breath) 25 dollar Amazon gift card !!! So whip out your Corel / Photoshop or Windows Paint and GET TO WORK !!!
(More on contest: http://bf3nation.com/2010/03/battlefield-3-box-art-contest-win-25-dollars/)
- D. Kosiba
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May 28, 2010
#1
Now on TWITPIC !! http://twitpic.com/1rpkcr
May 29, 2010
#2
Current user feedback:
30% say real.
70% say fake.
May 29, 2010
#3
sure its fake, just look at the design, looks shitty.
May 29, 2010
#4
Your face looks shitty
May 29, 2010
#5
really garbage its basically the same as BF2 but manipulated in photoshop, probably 10min work.
May 30, 2010
#6
baza just confirmed its fake on twitter. fail.
May 30, 2010
#7
WTF is baza lol
May 31, 2010
#8
A guy who works at DICE, it’s fake.
June 3, 2010
#9
A DICE employee. Fail post is fail.
May 31, 2010
#10
Are you sure its not a fake account? Don’t bum me out man
I can’t wait for BF3 any longer. If they don’t announce it at E3 i will shoot myself and then post it on YouTube.
May 31, 2010
#11
Just found this lol
http://i46.tinypic.com/vgmlc8.jpg
May 31, 2010
#12
cannot wait either, bc2 sucks. i hope bf3 is entirely different, but i have doubts . :/
May 31, 2010
#13
They must put AI bots into the multi/single player game of Bf 3!!
June 1, 2010
#14
who the fuck wants to play with ai dude… sigh
June 4, 2010
#15
Me and couple of thousand other people… sigh. It’s not hard for them po put them in and they’re optional so if you don’t want to play with them,you don’t have to.
June 5, 2010
#16
Would been cool with civilians…
In some sort of insrugernt gamemode
September 2, 2010
#17
Or just… to be able to shoot the civs o.O
June 1, 2010
#18
Just found this lol
http://i46.tinypic.com/vgmlc8.jpg
June 2, 2010
#19
yes thats lol
June 5, 2010
#20
http://tinypic.com/r/2poqd4w/6
here is a leaked screen from gametrailers E3 June 2010 of Battlefield 3
June 22, 2010
#21
Wow, a screen shot from the MoH leave a message trailer. Thats definitely BF3….
June 6, 2010
#22
found this on the battlefield blog 100% real look at the url
http://i47.tinypic.com/2zh339x.jpg
June 6, 2010
#23
shit looks pro. Thats gotta be 100% the box art cover lol
June 8, 2010
#24
Woah…that is amazing. I am glad it is the real box art and not fake. I would hate for qxx115 to think other wise
June 9, 2010
#25
lol
June 12, 2010
#26
Fake as fuck , and just confirmation EA is not showing BF3 at E3, looks like this is fast becoming vaporware folks.
June 12, 2010
#27
Not true. There are talks of it being shown at the big E3 press conference next week… Just because its not in the line up does not mean anything.
June 12, 2010
#28
http://filesmelt.com/dl/fakeandgay.png
enjoy your effortless shop.
June 12, 2010
#29
ever thought that the ss was resized? LOL
June 13, 2010
#30
But it wasn’t because it still has 100% pixel fidelity.
Not to mention it’s the complete wrong aspect ratio.
June 16, 2010
#31
well so much for bf3 at e3. goddamnit…
July 31, 2010
#32
I would like to exchange links with your site bf3nation.com
Is this possible?
August 3, 2010
#33
It’s fake. Why? U can see old EA logo.
P.S. Id u want play first BF3 then buy MoH LE.
August 3, 2010
#34
If it was real it would say DICE