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Kirk Hamilton
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Kotaku Editor-at-Large

The Battlefield Hardline beta is launching today on PS4 and PC. Whoa! Read more

Now they're on the roof, making a getaway in a helicopter. The cops shoot the pilot, the crook makes an unlikely jump OUT of the helicopter before it crashes and explodes, but he gets caught and arrested anyway. That sure looked ambitious! Read more

One of the crooks fights his way into an elevator, for a showdown up in a conference room at the top of this building. Meanwhile at least one cop is shooting at them from a building across the street - the maps in this game seem like they're massive. Read more

Aaaaaand a huge crane falls sideways in to a building, destroying pretty much everything. Wouldn't be a Battlefield trailer without something like that! Read more

We're flipping back and forth between the crooks, who are making a getaway in a car, and the cops, who are chasing the car in a helicopter. Pretty cool. It looks like there are (possibly?) some computer-controlled cop NPCs around, too? Read more

One of the crooks brings part of the overpass down on a cop car, looks like there'll be a fair bit of environmental destruction going on. Read more

We start from the perspective of the crooks, who are shooting up at an overpass in what looks like LA, exploding their way into an armored truck while dodging tons of cops. Read more

Time for a Harldline multiplayer demo, which starts with the screen flipping through channels like a TV show. Kind of a cool intro, played like a news report. Read more

They describe Hardline's story as "more like a great TV crime drama" than a traditional FPS. Whatever that means! Read more

And now it's Battlefield: Hardline. Opens with the trailer that leaked a few days ago. Read more

Big applause for Faith and Mirror's Edge. Not that much gameplay, though, mostly just concept art and prototype footage, which is a little disappointing. Read more

"It's important to us that everyone who wants to play the game can play the game" - emphasizing how you can take multiple routes in Mirror's Edge 2, which makes me think it'll be more forgiving. (Not necessarily a bad thing.) Read more

They've had parkour artists come in and teach them about Faith's moves and help expand her movesets while running across rooftops. Read more

They're showing a nifty video about Faith's character design, and how they made her the coolest. Which she is. Read more

Lots of vague stuff about how they're building Dawngate from the ground up to be fun, but not a lot of specifics about what'll set it apart from LoL and Dota. Read more

Now it's Dawngate, EA's new MOBA. Big video describing what a MOBA is. Read more