Get Battlefield 3 for $5 on Origin until Midday Friday 19th - All Done Now

SYDNEY, Australia - April 18, 2013 - Feel the battle this Friday as Origin's Mystery Deal for Australia is unveiled: Battlefield 3^TM for $5.00! From 12:00:00 pm AEST Friday, April 19, 2013 until 11:59:00 pm AEST Friday, April 19, 2013, Origin will be offering Battlefield 3 for $5.00 AUD, down from the usual price of $49.99 AUD. You'll have to act fast; Origin's discount on Battlefield 3 is available for 12 hours only! Visit the Battlefield 3 page on Origin after midday on Friday to get your copy for $5.00!

The Battlefield 3 army continues to grow quickly, capturing more than 20 million players since release in October 2011 and has been lauded by game critics worldwide for its compelling single player campaign, intense co-op missions and world class, all-out-war multiplayer experience. Since its debut in June 2012, more than 2.9 million players have signed up for Battlefield 3 Premium, the innovative offering that delivers five massive, themed digital expansion packs loaded with a wealth of content – Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand, Battlefield 3: Close Quarters, Battlefield 3: Armored Kill, Battlefield 3: Aftermath and Battlefield 3: End Game – all for $64.95 on the PlayStation^® Network, PC at Origin.com or 4000 MS points on the Xbox LIVE^® Marketplace.  

Battlefield 3 is rated MA15+ by the Australian Classification Board. For more information on Battlefield 3, please visit www.battlefield.com/au, and for more information on Battlefield 3 Premium be sure to go towww.battlefield.com/premium. For the latest news on Battlefield please visitwww.facebook.com/battlefield or follow us on Twitter atwww.twitter.com/battlefield.

Battlefield 3 - End Game Launch Trailer

Return to Battlefield 3 for the Aftermath

SYDNEY, Australia. — Nov. 28, 2012 – DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) studio, today announced that Battlefield 3™: Aftermath, the fourth digital expansion pack for Battlefield 3, is now available for all Battlefield 3 Premium members on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Battlefield 3: Aftermath provides a new brand of carnage to urban combat delivering four new maps in a vertical and horizontal setting, depicting a continuing struggle for supremacy and survival amongst Iran’s post-earthquake devastation. G4TV even said “DICE continues to play with Battlefield 3's multiplayer action in creative ways with its downloadable content releases. Aftermath is shaping up to be the most unique of the bunch by far.”

In Battlefield 3: Aftermath players can weave through the shattered districts, streets and cities in three new vehicles including heavily modified troop transports and a civilian vehicle adapted to deliver deadly force to the enemy. Battlefield 3: Aftermath also sees the debut of Scavenger mode – an objective based conquest where players must brave the environment armed with only one sidearm, as they try to find more powerful weapons in an attempt to survive with their squad. In addition to this, Battlefield 3: Aftermath delivers a new deadly and versatile crossbow for more silent kills, ten new assignments, dog tags, trophies, achievements and more.

Battlefield 3: Aftermath Release Schedule:

Battlefield 3 Premium members:
PlayStation 3 - November 27
Xbox 360® and PC -December 4

Battlefield 3 players:
Playstation 3 - December 11
Xbox 360® and PC - December 18

Battlefield 3 has quickly become the fastest selling title in EA’s 20+ year history selling 17 million units since release and has been lauded by game critics worldwide for its compelling single player campaign, intense co-op missions and its world class multiplayer. Since its debut in June of this year, Battlefield 3 Premium has surpassed 2 million members worldwide, delivering five massive, themed digital expansion packs – Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand, Battlefield 3: Close Quarters, Battlefield 3: Armored Kill, Battlefield 3: Aftermath and Battlefield 3: End Game hitting March 2013 – all for $64.99 ($74.99 NZ) on the PlayStation® Network, $49.99 on Origin.com or 4000 MS points on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace. Current Battlefield 3 players who have yet to upgrade to Battlefield 3 Premium can do so now and automatically receive all the great content listed above when it becomes available.

For more information on Battlefield 3, please visit http://www.battlefield.com/au/battlefield3, and for more information on Battlefield 3 Premium be sure to go tohttp://www.battlefield.com/au/battlefield3/1/premium. For the latest news on Battlefield please visit http://www.facebook.com/battlefield or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/battlefield

Battlefield 3: Aftermath

Battlefield 3: Aftermath features all multiplayer game modes from the base game, plus the all-new Scavenger mode. In Scavenger mode, lost soldiers start equipped with only a knife, one grenade, and sidearm and must search the environment for more powerful weapons to increase their chance at surviving and eventually winning.

Rise from the ashes, rebuild your forces and bring down the enemy in Battlefield 3: Aftermath. Set in the shattered districts, streets and villages of a post-earthquake Iran, Battlefield 3: Aftermath depicts a continuing struggle for supremacy and survival amongst the devastation. With operational capacity severely compromised, players will fight through the dust and rubble in a vertical and horizontal urban combat setting. In Battlefield 3: Aftermath, players will have additional support in the form of heavily modified troop transport and civilian vehicles adapted to deliver deadly force to the enemy. Also making its debut in Battlefield 3: Aftermath is the deadly crossbow, a new weapon to help deliver silent kills on the battlefield.

Battlefield 3: Aftermath key features and information
Four new maps including Epicenter and Markaz Monolith that introduces a fresh, destructive take on urban combat
Three new vehicles modified to showcase ingenuity and firepower
New Scavenger game mode, an objective based Conquest mode where lost soldiers armed only with a pistol must search the environment to find more powerful weapons and increasing their chance for survival
Deliver death in silence with the all new crossbow
Ten new Assignments
Ten new dog tags
Five new Achievements/Trophies
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: DICE
Formats: PlayStation®3, Xbox 360®, PC
Release: Starting November 27th for PlayStation 3 Premium members
Players: 2-24 (consoles), 2-64 (PC)
MSRP: $23.95 AUD for PlayStation 3 and PC, 1200 MS Points