I missed the link run this weekend, but for now, here’s a bunch of Battlefield news that are going around. Starting out with the one that has everyone excited:

• Yes, we’re working on Battlefield 3.
• No, we’re not telling you more than that. Do appreciate all the excited comments though, just don’t have any more information for you at this point.
• My colleague Demize99 has started to blog over at battlefield.com, starting out with a post about medics in BC2. Must-read, and I love the class.
• Inside XBox did an interview with Patrick Liu, producer for Battlefield 1943, about the game out soon on Playstation Network and XBox Live Arcade — asking, “is this really an arcade title?“

• E3 has come and gone. I could link to a million things from there, but I’ll restrict myself to one: The Star Wars — The Old Republic trailer. That is one serious piece of awesome right there.
• No, one more E3 mention actually: You will burn in hell for pretending to burn in hell.
• In other game news, the new Red Faction seems to be a good game.
• On the subject of MMOs, Jeff Vogel posted an interesting article about addiction-based game design and Eric at Eldergame posted an in-depth article on the health of the MMO industry.
• Sad news: Fantasy author David Eddings is dead.
• Here’s a concept display of a new kind of interface, used entirely without clicking. I’m not sure if that’s the way of the future, but it’s interesting.
• Алёна C++ made this awesome map of C++. Goes pretty nicely with xkcd’s map of the online communities from a while back.
• Speaks for itself: some beautiful world records.
• And the asshole of the week (frightening how easy it is to find these): the guy who thinks he owns the word “edge”, and likes lawsuits about it — Tim Langdell.

• Seth Godin has a commentary on Microsoft’s new initiative, Bing, that predictably is meant to be the next Google.
• And while on the subject of Google, they’re busy actually inventing new stuff: Google Wave, which looks extremely cool, and might completely take communications on the web to a new level. If you’ve got any kind of interest in web technology, watch their keynote demo — it’s an hour long, but well worth the time.
• Hanselman posts some interesting reflections on the result of Twitter becoming popular with marketers.
• The Messy Notebook has some advice on how to build something real in your spare time — it’s something I recommend to every programmer.
• Another event in the everlasting debate about piracy: A Canadian study has now been exposed as plagiarizing other reports, and of presenting numbers that were pure guesswork.
• If you’re into the Sci-Fi thing, check out this brain-controlled wheelchair. Human repairs are getting better and better.
• Some Battlefield 1943 news (boy, there’s lots of those): There’s a fourth map, Coral Sea, which will unlock with 43M total kills on each platform. And music4games has an article on the Abbey Road recording session for the soundtrack.
• I especially enjoyed this discussion on the BFBC2 multiplayer trailer, including a flamewar about whether the spotting system is cheating and a wallhack (hint: it’s not cheating if it’s the same for everyone).
• And time for another asshole of the week award, which is easily won by the Canon president who thinks there isn’t enough stress already — up your pace!

• Check out this awesome Mirror’s Edge cosplay photo set. Some serious dedication there.
• A video (by now a year old) of Project Trico has leaked onto the ‘net… this is the new shiny from the team behind ICO. Looks great to me, can’t wait for more info.
• The multiplayer teaser trailer thingie for BF: Bad Company 2 has been released, together with an interview with our Senior Producer Patrick Bach. I especially like the fact that the trailer is open, but you have to verify your age to watch the interview… he sure is a danger to all kids out there.
• Ned Bachelder reports on a challenge to compress images to fit in twitter messages. Awesome result considering it comes from 140 characters.
• Tech Crunch reports of claims that last.fm user info slipping and sliding into the hands of RIAA. Remarkable claims in itself, but the thing that interests me most is this quote from the email in there: “We’re just trying to help them stay afloat here it’s not like Pro memberships are earning any revenue!” — Might be smart to figure out how you’re going to make money before you start something like that.
• And finally I can’t help but sneak in yet another recommendation of Steve Yegge’s latest “article”, which is a Sci-Fi story.

• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages – wonderfully funny post by James Iry.
• The Huxley MMO-FPS-thingie is opening up for a beta: huxley.ijji.com. The concept looks interesting, but the devil’s in the details for that kind of game. I’ll be keeping my eyes on that one.
• BF1943 Pacific published a new video of Iwo Jima this week. Check it out — I can sneak out the info that the game is a lot of fun, telling from the playtests we’ve had.
• And more videos: The “Meet the Spy” TF2 Video is just out.
• If you haven’t seen David Perry’s TED talk on Video Games, check it out.
• And of course, the “dumbass of the week” award goes to Sony CEO Michael Lyton, who told the world “I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet“. I was trying to think of a witty reply, but it’s so stupid my mind explodes just from trying.

• Microsoft presents a new programming language, Axum, built with a focus on paralell programming and message passing between agents. Looks interesting.
• Andrei Alexandrescu’s slides from boostcon are online: Iterators must go.
• The news of the week in the games world: 3d realms is shutting down. Duke Nukem Forever looks to be forever a dream. Also shows you why deadlines are good.
• DICE is hiring a front-end and back-end web developer for a new product, causing a bit of a stir. If you’re a web developer wanting to play in the games industry, go for it!
• The EA3 press event happened during the week. EA Forum members are putting their full creativity into getting a better look at BF: Bad Company 2.
• And while some of these actually do make sense, 13 things that don’t make sense is an interesting read.