Despite the fact that the trailer was widely in circulation yesterday, Battlefield 2142 had not been officially announced. And we guess it still hasn't, since that peculiar philosophical quality of announcedness is usually dictated by the gibbering baboons in the PR department. Still, the DICE guys have posted this message to the Battlefield 2 website, escalating Battlefield 2142 to the status of quasi-announced. A big relief.

Hi BF fans,

Today we have some really big news to share with you. The more sniper-eyed of you out there will probably already know, but we're currently hard at work developing "Battlefield 2142", which is scheduled for release this Autumn. As you'll have guessed, this is a departure for the BF series as we're going into the future - something that a lot of you wanted to see happen in the BF universe. We're creating a ton of cool features that you won't have seen in any BF before, including cloaking devices, mines that follow you, awesome new rifles, guns and grenades, and of course, MECHS! We're developing this here in DICE Stockholm while the DICE Canada studio will be hard at work on a 1.3 update for Battlefield 2, as well as the Armoured Fury Booster Pack.

There'll be an "official" press release later on this week but we know that you guys need to know first. Stay tuned and we'll keep you posted on how 2142 is coming along.

The BF2142 Team

P.S. Snoken - vi har sett fram emot Mine 2 och kan lugnt s ga att vi inte blev besvikna!

We asked our Swedish correspondent to translate the post script. He says it means: "Bork bork bork bork!" So now we need someone to translate that.

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