In an interview with Gamasutra, EA Korea Studio Head Danny Isaac discusses some of

their future plans which may include a new BF game. Take a look:

With Battlefield Heroes, Neowiz is also working on it with EA, is that correct?

Danny: No. Battlefield Heroes is independent of Neowiz. We actually have another product. We're actually taking Battlefield, the original product. We're discussing whether Heroes is right for the market here.

One of the interesting things I've said to one of my guys about Heroes is that the cartoony graphical style was very much like some of the earlier Korean games, so it is perceived as being somewhat older. I still think it's a great-looking game.

It's fantastic, for free, very high quality. But Koreans would see that kind of cartoony style and think it's a little bit older.

The other thing is that all the Korean men, at least, do national service here. So they know what an M16 looks like, they know what an M1 tank looks like. They're very hardcore into the military side of things. A World War II shooter is maybe not as appealing as a hardcore, modern combat type of product.

So, with Neowiz we're working actually on the Battlefield franchise. We're taking a Battlefield II engine and we're converting it to a free-to-play model.

To read the rest of the interview, which includes some more on Battlefield Heroes,

visit here.

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During Sunday evening players were unable to log in to Battlefield 2 correctly or see the server lists in BF2 and BF2142. This was quickly noticed by EA and GameSpy who had engineers working to restore the service as fast as possible.

After investigation the problem was located and resolved and service resumed at approximately 22:30 GMT (14:30 PST). The outage was the result of a load balancer that didn’t failover to its backup correctly, all account and server list access has returned to normal. Should you have any issues regarding logging in or viewing the server list please contact EA Support at http://support.ea.com. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Rumors are floating around today that Disney might be buying Electronic Arts,

although The Motley Fool states the chances of this deal are slim.

Asked if Disney's focus would be on developing in-house games over buying more developers, [CFO Tom] Staggs responded, "I don't want you to conclude that those are in the long term mutually exclusive." He went on to say that a "strategic and attractive" purchase would be "a possibility" for the family entertainment giant.

Did he say Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: ERTS)? No. However, a combination of EA's battered share price and Disney's desire to ramp up its gaming presence dovetail nicely in the rumor mill. Read the rest...

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The Battlefield Heroes website has been updated today with a huge list of questions and answers about the game.

What is the maximum level you can achieve? Will it ever increase?
The level “cap” is currently 30. We’re assuming that BF Heroes will be around for a while and evolve over time, so you could say it’s a reasonable assumption that at some point the level cap will increase.

Are the available weapons balanced? Or is there a lot of difference between them?
Obviously different weapons will have different strengths and weaknesses. Depending on what class you play, what abilities you use and also things like your play style will mostly determine the “actual” strength of a certain weapon. That said, there will always be potential for some balance to shift within an online multiplayer game. This is why we are, and continuously will be, going to the community for feedback as well as doing our own continued testing.

Are there any plans to implement more classes or ones that players can unlock?
At the moment we feel that we have three classes with a lot of diversity among them and players will have a lot of fun for a long time.

How many players will be able to play on the same server?
Battlefield Heroes is currently aimed at 8v8, so 16 total.

Will there be a Battle Recorder like BF2?
We haven’t decided yet. This is something we may add in the future. We’re currently looking at ways to make it easier to use.

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Goodman from DICE has posted BF heroes very first Q & A.

Yep there will be a public Beta before final so you can see what we have been working on. Some things you'll see/experience and other things you won't as its behind the scenes to secure Battlefield 2 accounts and playing experiences.

The beta would be for everyone that wants to install it, the more people that do the better feedback we get and we don't have an update 1.30 again. That update alone set us on the road of public beta to stop it from happening in another update. The plan is to get it out before Christmas yes.

On Monday evening two members of the Bad Company team at DICE will be online to play some matches with our fellow PS3 gamers. Present will be Producer Gordon Van Dyke and Community Manager Parker. Add us to your friends list and join the server we’re on:

Gordon: PSN ID - GordonVanDyke
Parker: PSN ID - DICE-Parker

We’ll be online on Monday December 1 from 17:00 GMT!