http://au.gamespot.com/news/6208412.html?tag=result;title;0
EA DICE's multiplayer-only downloadable installment in WWII shooter series invades XBLA, PSN in two months for $15, PC in September.


It was hardly a shock when EA and DICE announced in February that a new edition of Battlefield: Bad Company was en route for consoles and PCs this winter (http://au.gamespot.com/news/6204185.html), considering that publisher CEO John Riccitiello had said as much (http://au.gamespot.com/news/6204076.html) in a conference call earlier that week. What wasn't apparent from Riccitiello's statements, however, was that DICE was actually rolling out two theretofore unannounced titles, the second of which is the downloadable Battlefield 1943.
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Today, EA dropped additional details on Battlefield 1943, saying that the multiplayer-only shooter will be available through Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this June for $15 (1,200 Microsoft points). A PC edition of the game will follow in September.
Battlefield 1943 features 24-player conflicts that play out both on land and in the air. Players can assume a number of different play styles as either the US Marines or the Imperial Japanese Navy, including a trench-warfare rifleman grunt, a heavy-armor tank commander, or a nimble fighter pilot, with battles playing out across three historic World War II locales: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima.
EA DICE remains at work on Battlefield Heroes, a free-to-play, heavily stylized online shooter for PCs. EA is currently accepting beta test sign-ups through the game's official Web site (http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/).

sounds gd is spose, would rather BAD company 2 on PC to come out.

thank god there's something new comin out this yr, even if it's not a massive BF game, will still be something new to play..

Dear PC Gamer(s),

I know you might feel disappointed about the PC release being in September rather than June, but you should be very happy to know this is to give us the proper development time to create a proper PC version of Battlefield 1943 and not a console port. To the contrary of some less informed fans out there this is in no means an intentional ploy to punish our PC fans. And is in fact quite the opposite, we want to make the best damn PC version we can for our PC fans!

Not to bore your eyes out with endless text about the how's and do's I will say to make this a proper PC version we need a completed core game to develop over and remember we already released Battlefield Bad Company with the Frostbite Engine on the consoles, so this will be first PC game ever released using Frostbite! PCs are an open platform requiring additional features, support, technical consideration, and can't just be thrown out there using copy/paste. We have thought very carefully about this decision and in the long run felt it was the right choice even though we knew we'd catch some flak for it, but we feel once you play the first Frostbite PC game ever from DICE you'll see why we put this extra time and care in on the development making all right again in the universe. I hope this helps clear things up better and answers your concern(s).

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/battlefield1943/video/6208414/battlefield-1943-wake-island-trailer

anyone here played the Xbox360 version yet?

yeah its fairly terrible on console, what isnt though..