While we may not yet have been graced with any screenshots, new details have emerged concerning EAs upcoming free-to-play game, Battlefield Heroes. At launched the World War Two based game will feature two sides, the Royal Army and the National Army with two to three maps available from the off. EA plans to bring the map numbers up after the game goes live.

We already know that players can chose a character than can level up, it has been revealed that they will gain new OTT abilities as they progress in the ranks. Inflammable ammo and the chance to throw back several grenades at your enemy are among the abilities.

The basics of the Battlefield Conquest game mode seem to be retained with capture points and tickets, though now the game will chose your insertion point. There will also be vehicles, but judging from the game style these will be wildly wrong-sized compared to the players to add to the good natured fun of the game.

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Kotaku Australia has revealed that the upcoming Battlefield Heroes will only be available in the US and EU..’for now.’

Interesting to see this move by EA, maybe they want to see how their new free-to-play model works before going world wide? Who knows, but I am sure we will hear more on this in the coming months.

The second piece of news for the day comes by way of GamesPolitics and reveals that the Sierra Club plans to place a 1% sales tax on TV sets and Video Games. The plan is to raise $4 million to go towards funding programs to give kids an outdoors education.

I have my reservations on this, surely parents should be able to give their children this education themselves by taking them for a walk in the park or forest. I don’t see how this is going to have any real effect on anything apart from to line a few peoples pockets.

Finally CVG has unearthed some new Far Cry 2 screens, and they do look very very nice!

Some big changes for Team Fortress 2 have been revealed by Tom Francis in the PC Gamer UK blog, Battlefield Heroes gets a change of perspective, and the Games Developer Choice Awards nominations have been revealed!

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