Kotaku has a podcast up that is with some of the Treyarch members. The main topic of the podcast deals with balancing historic realism and fun. They are playing the game while the podcast is going on, somewhat of a different way to do a podcast. Check it out below:

The team behind the highly anticipated Sands of Fire movie has released a brand new trailer today. This new trailer shows off more of the great action the full length video will feature. Here's what the guys had to say:
 

Around Christmas time, as the tradition goes, the DW crew prepares for something special. And this year is no exception. Exactly 3 years after the first teaser and 2 years after the Christmas special (Preview), we are very pleased to announce the last and official SoF Trailer.

The previous presentations were both action packed and visually enhanced to portray the best visual style of this movie but this time however, we have focussed on the story. It's no secret that SoF is inspired by true events from current and passed military operations in Iraq and with this trailer we are trying to give more details of what this movie is all about.

The trailer will hopefully convince the disbelievers and people who were going to give up on us. And for the fans that sticked with us, we hope this trailer will show that the waiting hasn't been for nothing. Remember, it's only a small presentation of what to expect in the final movie.

Some of the shots used in this trailer will look familiar. And yes, some of these shots were released in previous trailers or during the post-production of the movie but not in it's final shape. This trailer does show the final composit of these shots as they were edited for the best viewing experience.

To watch the trailer in full HD be sure to visit here. If you wish to read more of this update, or download some wallpapers from the trailer, visit the website.

CyberGamer has recently posted up an interview with Barrie Tingle and some of the Battlefield team. Here is what they had to say:

Q: Just in response to Total Gaming Networks excellent question about what generation of games are you looking to produce in the future be it "Korean war" or such themes I would like to ask more so do you feel that the titles you have released have covered all of the major weaponry shifts through the periods of combat? and if so will DICE turn its focus to innovative gameplay modes instead?

A: We don't see any specific purpose in itself trying to cover all major historical conflicts, we'd rather focus on delivering games taking place in settings which appeal to the audience of our games. Gameplay and, as we call it, the second-to-second experience is always most important no matter which battlefield the action takes place on.

When it comes to weaponry shifts; we believe that not only do we cover a lot of weaponry shifts in our games, but we also deliver innovative gameplay modes (with Conquest being pretty standard now). Then we added Titans and Supply Lines in Battlefield 2142 and Infantry Only mode to both BF2 and BF2142 to allow those who don't particularly like vehicles to enjoy Battlefield.

Whether we will stop at that, definitely not. We are always looking at new gameplay modes we could include and bring more to everyone that plays.

Q: What is one of the funniest and most outlandish side effects you have had during the creation of your games? for example in my own modding experiences I somehow managed to turn a smoke grenade into a tornado with some poorly placed numbers.

A: Battlefield probably had some of the strangest things happen to it during its development. In the recent TGN article we mentioned a video called Dattlefield which is a parody of the BF2 intro. During that video they made use of an old issue where a soldier would spawn without their kit and run around with their arms outstretched.

Another odd side effect we had in BF2 was the rare ability to get a ladder kill. Yep you could actually be credited with a kill someone shown as a death by ladder, unfortunately (?) this was removed before the game launched.

Q: Battlefield 2142 we were all to believe that 1.5 was the last patch being released by DICE for that title, if you could for the BF2142 community let us know what was the motivation behind the upcoming patch?

A: Part of the reason for Update 1.51 is obviously the security fixes for the game servers and clients. We also had the map waiting for release as it unfortunately wasn't ready in time for Update 1.50. So Battlefield 2142 1.51 was always planned to be released if only to let everyone get their hands on the new map.

While we can't always tell everyone the specifics of what we are working on we do have future plans for Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 in 2009.

View the full interview here.

Call of Duty World of War was officially released today. MIAClan.net has prepared for the release and setup 4 COD World at War servers for our community players. We hope that all of our COD4 players and members will enjoy these new servers along with players that are new to the COD4 franchise. We are planning to setup several admins for our servers this week to ensure our servers are kept clean and hack free. We will be running Punkbuster on all our COD5 servers and will be setting them up to stream PBbans and PunksBusted this week. We hope that everyone will save our new servers to their favorites and help them to be the most popular COD5 servers in the online gaming community.

Here is a list of our new Call of Duty World at War servers.

Our new MIAClan.net Server IPs are:

64.34.184.216:28960 - MIAClan.net S N D

64.34.200.41:28960 - MIAClan.net TDM East

64.34.200.43:28960 - MIAClan.net WAR!! CTF

76.74.152.32:28960 - MIAClan.net TDM West

Joe Halper, a Senior Producer for THQ / Kaos Studios, has released three screenshots of the new server browser to be included in the next patch. Take a look: 

Screenshot #1 (Exclusive to Frontlines Warfare)

"The new Patch 1.1.0 server browser adds much improved functionality and options including filters, message of the day, and more."

Screenshot #2 (Exclusive to Planet Frontlines)

"Patch 1.1.0 allows you to interrupt the server when performing a refresh. In general, the browser is faster and refreshes less."

Screenshot #3 (Exclusive to Fuelofwar.de (German))

"The new patch adds Punkbuster, which can be enabled or disabled depending on what server your playing on."

See this update from Frontlines Status here and be sure to click the thumbnail images of the screenshots above to visit the sites exclusively hosting the shots. (Frontlines Warfare, Planet Frontlines, and Fuelofwar.de )