We might not have seen a whole lot of EA’s next Battlefield game beyond the few seconds of pre-alpha footage shared this week, but it turns out it’s probably not all that far away. The publisher has confirmed it expect the series’ latest instalment to arrive before April next year.
EA shared the news as part of its third-quarter financial earnings report, saying its new Battlefield is “expected fiscal year 2026 release”. That means the game should – all being well – arrive sometime between 1st April this year and 31st of March 2026.
Specifics remain limited, but EA last year confirmed the long-running multiplayer shooter series would be returning to the modern era for its next outing, and that it’d feature traditional classes and more focused maps – a clear indication it would be revisiting a tried-and-tested formula after shaking things up in 2021’s poorly received Battlefield 2042.
Last year’s announcement also revealed EA was planning a series of playtests for Battlefield’s next instalment, in order to “get the community back on [its] side” – and that initiative, now known as Battlefield Labs, was officially unveiled this week alongside brief early gameplay.