EA delays Battlefield Heroes, Tiberium

By Robert Purchese Published 30 July, 2008

Riccitiello continues quality drive.

EA has pushed back the release of Battlefield Heroes and Command & Conquer FPS Tiberium.

Battlefield Heroes, the ad-supported cartoon spin-off of the multiplayer series, will now arrive at the end of the year rather than this summer.

"We decided to increase its focus on some of the social networking features. The last thing we want to do is jab it in the marketplace," John Riccitiello told investors in an earnings call.

The steely-headed EA boss was optimistic that everything was progressing as expected, but explained the extra time was needed to incorporate suggestions made by the current flock of beta testers.

In the same call it was revealed that Tiberium will now not appear until sometime after April 2009.

Tiberium is a bit like GRAW, granting you command of ground troops, vehicles, air squads and ion cannon strikes to achieve your goal - fending off an alien invasion.

This is the second attempt from EA to deliver a first-person shooter in the Command & Conquer world, after C&C: Renegade flopped spectacularly back in 2002.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • SBfistfun #1 4 years ago

    Social networking my arse.

  • Macross #2 4 years ago

    C&C Renegade was awesome multiplayer. Many happy memories from university playing that over the LAN.

  • Slamhound #3 4 years ago

    Heroes has pretty much been the only EA title I've been looking forward to lately (Can't get excited over Spore, no matter how much dopamine Will "Overrated" Wright injects into my spine).

    Damn shame.
    Edited by 1 at 30/07/08 @ 10:42

  • Raziel #4 4 years ago

    I like how BF Heroes has like 5000 Beta testers and a single server that holds only 7 people at a time.
    I've yet to actually play it...

  • YourMessageHere #5 4 years ago

    What is this, Battlefield Facebook? PC gamers already have social networks, in fact PCs are buckling under the weight of social networks. More pointless features please! Unless they mean "we forgot to put a chat button in", this is the kind of peripheral fluff that could be added in an update; it seems pathetic to delay this.

    I was about to express doubts that anyone at all cared about Tiberium but then I remembered that it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

  • SpikeRocks #6 4 years ago

    Meh on Heroes

  • Spud*Knuckles #7 4 years ago

    So they've had to delay a game based on a 5-6 year old game design, with 2 maps and simplyfied graphics to work on social networking aspects... Hmmmm...

    Just give us BF3 sometime soon and THEN you can get on with your sociadvergaming experiment all you want DICE!

  • SixFootHalfling #8 4 years ago

    "We decided to increase its focus on some of the social networking features."

    No longer interested - if I wanted to use social networking, I'd have a facebook account, as I haven't even visited any social website, and only use MSN to send files and links to friends, or have a covert alliance with someone when playing a C&C game online, I really don't care about social features.