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CZ Responds to FT Story

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Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has refuted a report by the Financial Times which said YZi Labs could be opened up to external investors.

Zhao said the Tuesday report was “false news…with with fake/wrong/made-up info and negative narrative,” in a post on X.

“As far as I know…YZi Labs is not raising an external fund,” Zhao wrote.

The report had said that YZi Labs, which was rebranded from Binance’s venture arm Binance Labs at the start of this year, is “open to the possibility of converting into an investment fund.”

Zhao also took exception to the report’s characterization of Binance’s 2023 guilty plea. which led to him stepping down as CEO and spending four months in prison last year, as “criminal charges related to money laundering.”

“I plead to a single violation of BSA, failure to maintain an adequate ANTI-money laundering program,” he wrote.

The report cited an interview with head of YZi Labs Ella Zhang. Zhang also refuted the report on X. “The FT headline suggesting YZi Labs plans to raise external LP money is false. We have no such plan,” she wrote.

YZi Labs rebranded from Binance Labs after Zhao’s release from prison, with the Binance co-founder taking a more active role. YZi Labs is often referred to as Zhao’s family office in that it is an investment vehicle for Zhao’s money.

YZi Labs, however says its structure differs from a traditional family office. “YZi Labs backs high-impact startups driving growth in Web3, AI, and
biotech. Family offices’ focus is more on estate planning, tax structuring, and
generational capital preservation,” it said in emailed fact sheet.



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Tencent responds to Sony lawsuit against "slavish" Horizon clone, stating its claims of originality are "startling"
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Tencent responds to Sony lawsuit against “slavish” Horizon clone, stating its claims of originality are “startling”

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Tencent has responded to Sony’s Horizon lawsuit, claiming its action adventure game Light of Motiram uses “time-honoured” genre tropes.

Back in July, Sony filed a lawsuit against Tencent claiming its newly-revealed game was a “slavish clone” of the Horizon games, owing to its red-headed heroine, post-apocalyptic world, and robotic enemies.

Tencent has now filed its response in a motion to dismiss, stating Sony “seeks an impermissible monopoly on genre conventions” (thanks The GamePost). It reads as something of an attack against Guerrilla’s games, stating Sony’s claims of Horizon’s originality are “startling”.

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“Plaintiff Sony has sued a grab-bag of Tencent companies – and ten unnamed defendants – about the unreleased video game Light of Motiram, alleging that the game copies elements from Sony’s game Horizon Zero Dawn and its spinoffs,” said Tencent.

“At bottom, Sony’s effort is not aimed at fighting off piracy, plagiarism, or any genuine threat to intellectual property. It is an improper attempt to fence off a well-trodden corner of popular culture and declare it Sony’s exclusive domain.”

Sony previously claimed Horizon Zero Dawn was “like no fictional world created before [or] since”. In response, Tencent claimed this is “flatly contradicted” by Guerrilla itself, pointing to a behind-the-scenes documentary where art director Jan-Bart Van Beek admitted the game’s central premise has been done before – specifically in 2013 game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

“That claim is startling, because it is flatly contradicted by Sony’s own developers, not to mention the long history of video games featuring the same elements that Sony seeks to monopolise through this lawsuit,” said Tencent.

“Sony’s Complaint tellingly ignores these facts. Instead, it tries to transform ubiquitous genre ingredients into proprietary assets.”

It continued: “By suing over an unreleased project that merely employs the same time-honoured tropes embraced by scores of other games released both before and after Horizon – like Enslaved, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Far Cry: Primal, Far Cry: New Dawn, Outer Wilds, Biomutant, and many more – Sony seeks an impermissible monopoly on genre conventions.”

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Tencent’s response also addressed a meeting at GDC in March 2024 where Tencent representatives pitched a licensed Horizon mobile game that Sony ultimately turned down. The Chinese company stated no executives or employees were at the meeting, so nothing at the meeting “is alleged to be an act of copyright or trademark infringement”.

What’s more, Tencent has claimed Sony is attempting to sue the wrong company, so wants the case thrown out on legal grounds.

While Sony’s lawsuit is against Tencent America, Proxima Beta U.S., and Tencent Holdings, Light of Motiram – according to Tencent’s response – is being developed and published by Polaris Quest / Aurora Studios, a developer operating under Tencent Technology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, and Proxima Beta PTE Ltd, a company in Singapore “doing business as ‘Tencent Games’ and/or ‘Level Infinite'”.

“None of the served defendants develop and market the Light of Motiram video game that Sony alleges infringes its intellectual property in the Horizon franchise,” said Tencent. It stated Tencent Holdings Ltd. is simply a parent company and has no involvement in Light of Motiram.

“Sony’s threadbare, conclusory allegations improperly lump these Defendants together with the foreign companies alleged to be responsible for the core conduct at issue. Sony’s vague allegations against ‘Tencent’ or ‘Defendants’ generally cannot substantiate the claims it brings against Tencent America, Proxima Beta U.S., or Tencent Holdings specifically.”

Lastly, Light of Motiram won’t release until the end of 2027, meaning Sony’s lawsuit is built on what the game “might” look like before it’s even out, said Tencent.

Still, shortly after Sony began suing Tencent, Light of Motiram’s Steam page was quietly altered to remove, edit, and/or replace key art, as well as rewrite the description.



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Tencent accuses Sony of seeking a "monopoly on genre conventions" as it responds to Light of Motiram copyright lawsuit
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Tencent accuses Sony of seeking a “monopoly on genre conventions” as it responds to Light of Motiram copyright lawsuit

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Tencent is disputing Sony’s claims that its upcoming game Light of Motiram is a “slavish clone” of its tentpole Horizon series, claiming the latter is not “fighting off piracy, plagiarism, or any genuine threat to intellectual property” but is instead attempting to “transform ubiquitous genre ingredients into proprietary assets.”

Back in July, Sony filed a copyright lawsuit against Tencent. In court papers filed at the time, Sony demanded a jury trial for copyright and trademark infringement and to prevent the “imminent” release of Tencent’s upcoming title, accusing it of “rip[ping] off” Horizon lead Aloy, “deliberatedly causing numerous game lovers to confuse Light of Motiram as the next game in the Horizon series with encountering Tencent’s promotional game play videos and social media accounts.” Shortly thereafter, Tencent made several changes to Light of Motiram’s Steam page and its promotional art.

Now, as spotted by The Game Post, Tencent claims Light of Motiram is merely making use of “time-honored” tropes that are outside “Sony’s exclusive domain,” calling Sony’s copyright claims “startling.”

“Plaintiff Sony has sued a grab-bag of Tencent companies – and ten unnamed defendants – about the unreleased video game Light of Motiram, alleging that the game copies elements from Sony’s game Horizon Zero Dawn and its spinoffs,” Tencent’s lawyers wrote.

“At bottom, Sony’s effort is not aimed at fighting off piracy, plagiarism, or any genuine threat to intellectual property. It is an improper attempt to fence off a well-trodden corner of popular culture and declare it Sony’s exclusive domain.”

The court papers further assert that Horizon Zero Dawn’s art director, Jan-Bart Van Beek, suggested in a documentary that the game’s premise was not original, and referenced 2013’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

“Long before this lawsuit was filed, the developers of Horizon Zero Dawn publicly acknowledged that the very same game elements that, today, Sony claims to own exclusively, were in fact borrowed from an earlier game.

“Sony’s Complaint tellingly ignores these facts. Instead, it tries to transform ubiquitous genre ingredients into proprietary assets,” Tencent added. “By suing over an unreleased project that merely employs the same time-honored tropes embraced by scores of other games released both before and after Horizon — like Enslaved, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Far Cry: Primal, Far Cry: New Dawn, Outer Wilds, Biomutant, and many more — Sony seeks an impermissible monopoly on genre conventions.”

Tencent also dismissed Sony’s claims its representatives pitched a Horizon mobile game at GDC in 2024, and states Sony is suing the wrong companies as “none of the served defendants develop and market the Light of Motiram video game that Sony alleges infringes its intellectual property in the Horizon franchise.” It also claimed that it cannot be sued for a game that has a release window of Q4 2027 and not yet released.

For more on Tencent, check out our feature, Behind the scenes at Tencent.



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"The game is pretty damn optimal" - Randy Pitchford responds to Borderlands 4 PC performance complaints
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“The game is pretty damn optimal” – Randy Pitchford responds to Borderlands 4 PC performance complaints

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Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford has been busy defending Borderlands 4 against complaints of poor game performance on PC. He said the game was “pretty darn optimal” and that people shouldn’t expect to be able to run it in huge resolutions at max settings and get incredible frame-rates.

“Every PC gamer must accept the reality of the relationship between their hardware and what the software they are running is doing,” Pitchford wrote on X. “We have made an amazing and fun and huge looter shooter campaign game. The game is pretty damn optimal – which means that the software is doing what we want without wasteful cycles on bad processes.

“With Borderlands 4, every PC gamer has a LOT of tools to balance their preferences between FPS, resolution, and rendering features. If you aren’t happy with the balance between these things you are experiencing, please tune to your preferences using the tools available to you.”

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It’s “absolutely reasonable” for a looter shooter like Borderlands 4 to focus on achieving 60 frames-per-second at recommended settings, he said, presumably meaning rather than anything higher. But you can’t have it all. If you want all the visual effects and a very high resolution, you’ll have to trade-off against frame-rate, he said, and vice versa.

“It is a mistake to believe or expect that PCs between minimum specification and recommended specification can achieve all of extremely high frame rate, maximum/ultra features, and extremely high resolution,” Pitchford wrote. “If that last post makes you have a negative reaction, I bet you have emotions and expectations that you feel aren’t sufficiently attended to. I’m sorry.

“But please accept that the game is doing a lot and running pretty optimally and that you may have to either accept some trade offs between fps, features and resolution as your preference or you will continue to be disappointed.”

For its part, Gearbox is doing “significant” work on PC performance, Pitchford said, and it’s fixing the “few real issues” affecting a “very, very small percentage of users”. In the meantime, Pitchford recommended lowering resolution or using a scaling resolution solution like DLSS to improve the performance of your game. “The game was built to take advantage of it,” he said. “This is not a competitive FPS.”

Poor PC performance of Borderlands 4 led to a glut of negative Steam reviews during launch weekend, where the game currently sits on an overall review average of “Mixed”. It has, however, had a seemingly very popular opening weekend, reaching a high of just over 300K concurrent players.

But it’s not just the PC version of Borderlands 4 that’s having some technical headaches. Console players have been struggling with a lack of customisable control over the game’s field of vision (FOV) – a setting players have control over on PC – and are finding it too zoomed in, and it’s making people feel sick.

Pitchford responded to these concerns by first claiming there is no motion blur in Borderlands 4, as some people had thought there was. Then, bizarrely, by explaining that the reason there is no FOV slider in the console versions isn’t due to performance issues but because “it might affect fairness”. But what he meant by that wasn’t entirely clear. “I can’t really talk about it yet,” was all he said. Though he did later add: “Be aware – you have no idea what the team and I were planning and how FOV slider might affect fairness with such a thing.” Some kind of competitive multiplayer mode, perhaps?

He then posted a poll to gauge how much people wanted a FOV slider in the game. The result was overwhelming: nearly three quarters of all poll responders chose the strongest affirmative answer – “FOV slider or GTFO!”

Borderlands 4 was released at the end of last week, but as we weren’t supplied with game-code ahead of the release, we had no review for you. We do now have a review in the works but, as we want to be thorough, it may take a few days.



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‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
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‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence

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“You could be next,” influencer and unofficial Trump adviser Laura Loomer posted on X. “The Left are terrorists.”

Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who popularized the demonization of critical race theory, suggested in a post on X that the “radical left” was responsible for the shooting, and urged the US government “to infiltrate, disrupt, arrest, and incarcerate all of those who are responsible for this chaos.”

Republican representative Derrick Van Orden from Wisconsin also blamed the shooting on “leftwing political violence” and warned on X that “Whoever does not condemn this is part of the problem. The gloves are off.”

On the floor of the House, after Democrats and Republicans observed a “moment of prayer,” led by House speaker Mike Johnson, for Charlie Kirk and his family, representative Lauren Boebert called for a spoken prayer. Some Democrats said no, and referenced the school shooting in Colorado that also occurred Wednesday. Shouting broke out, and Republican representative Anna Paulina Luna yelled across the aisle, “Y’all caused this.” One Democrat, according to The New York Times, responded, “Pass some gun laws!”

On X, Luna continued to blame the left: “EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU WHO CALLED US FASCISTS DID THIS. You were too busy doping up kids, cutting off their genitals, inciting racial violence by supporting orgs that exploit minorities, protecting criminals, and stirring hate. YOU ARE THE HATE you claim to fight. Your words caused this. Your hate caused this.” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene also posted about Kirk’s death, calling on people to “rise up and end this.”

Blake Masters, a twice-failed US congressional candidate once backed by Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel and endorsed by Trump, called for RICO investigations into non-governmental organizations as a result of the shooting.

“Left-wing violence is out of control, and it’s not random,” Masters posted on X. “Either we destroy the NGO/donor patronage network that enables and foments it, or it will destroy us.”

Masters was quoting a post from right-wing podcaster and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, who blamed the shooting on the left. “Congressional hearings now,” Cernovich posted on X. “Every billionaire funding far left wing extremism. Soros, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman. Massive RICO investigations now.”

Chaya Raichik, who operates the anti-LGBTQ account Libs of TikTok, simply wrote: “THIS IS WAR.”

On fringe platforms like Trump’s own Truth Social and The Donald, the rabidly pro-Trump message board that was responsible for some of the planning of the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, numerous users echoed Jones’ comments about war.

“War is coming,” one user of The Donald wrote on a thread dedicated to Kirk’s shooting. “War is here,” another responded.

Another user of The Donald wrote in the same thread: “Civil War is coming … this will give the left the blowback they’ve been begging white people for so they can play the victim and justify white genocide.”



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Bwipo responds to backlash for comment about women’s esports and FlyQuest suspension

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League of Legends professional Gabriël ‘Bwipo’ Rau has responded to backlash after he said that women shouldn’t compete in gaming while on their period.

On September 9, FlyQuest star Bwipo was plunged into hot water after making comments about women competing in League of Legends while on their period. The Belgian initially said “there’s just not enough support for female pro players” during “their monthly cycles.” However, it was his subsequent comments that sparked outrage. 

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“I think a lot of people, even men, get tilted out of their f**king minds when they play League of Legends. When a woman is on the wrong part of the month, for playing competitively — you know what I mean? There is a time of the month where you should not be playing competitive games as a woman, in my opinion,” he said back on September 2.

“This is my experience. I lived with one for a while, and she played a lot of League ranked. It was really obvious when she was getting super irritated at every little thing. I’m not trying to be sexist or anything, that’s just the way it was.”

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Those resurfaced comments led to numerous women in esports hitting out at Bwipo, including Sjokz, who called her fellow Belgian’s comments “ignorant.” 

Bwipo ultimately apologized for his comments on September 10. “Hi everyone, I know I f*cked up. My comments were ignorant and disrespectful to women, including those close to me,” he posted on X (formerly Twitter). 

“I’m sorry to those I hurt. I regret using my platform to fuel vitriol and sexism instead of support, and I’ll be taking steps to reflect, listen, and do better.”

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Hi everyone, I know I fucked up. My comments were ignorant and disrespectful to women, including those close to me.

I’m sorry to those I hurt. I regret using my platform to fuel vitriol and sexism instead of support, and I’ll be taking steps to reflect, listen, and do better.

— Bwipo (@Bwipo) September 10, 2025

Bwipo was suspended by FlyQuest for the comments. The organization also made a donation to organizations that benefit women in gaming with his prize money. 

He will miss their next series in the LTA playoffs against Vivo Keyd Stars. However, there is no indication as to whether or not he’ll also face punishment from Riot Games and LTA.





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Moderna CEO Responds to RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against the Covid-19 Vaccine
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Moderna CEO Responds to RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against the Covid-19 Vaccine

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At the WIRED Health summit on Tuesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the recent changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy made by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are a “step backward.”

Moderna is one of the manufacturers of mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines, and last month the company received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for an updated version of the shot. But as part of that approval, the FDA imposed new restrictions on who can receive the vaccine. Previously, Covid vaccines were recommended for anyone 6 months or older. Now, the FDA says they should only be given to individuals at high risk of serious disease, either because they are 65 and older or have other health problems.

“I think it complicates things for people,” Bancel said. “You might have somebody in your household—a parent, a spouse, a kid—who is at high risk” that you want to protect, he said. Before, healthy individuals could just go to a pharmacy to receive a Covid shot. Now, several states require a prescription to get a Covid shot because of the FDA’s changes.

Kennedy has been on a crusade against vaccines since he stepped into the role of HHS secretary in February; earlier this week, the Senate Finance Committee grilled him about his actions in office so far.

In May, Kennedy terminated a $590 million contract with Moderna for the development of an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine candidate. The contract was awarded during the final days of the Biden administration in January, just before President Donald Trump’s second term began. Bird flu is widespread in wild birds and has been causing outbreaks in poultry and US dairy cows since March 2024. It has caused sporadic cases in people, most of them farm workers, but poses a pandemic potential if it develops the ability to spread from person to person.

That same month, Kennedy announced that HHS would no longer recommend mRNA Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. In June, FDA said it would require new labels on mRNA vaccines to include safety information about the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, rare side effects observed mostly in young men following administration of the shots.

In August, as a part of a “coordinated wind-down” of mRNA vaccine research, HHS canceled 22 related contracts and investments worth nearly $500 million. Kennedy incorrectly said in a statement these vaccines “fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like Covid and flu.” HHS is instead shifting funding to an older vaccine platform known as “whole-virus” vaccines.

Despite the administration’s backlash against mRNA vaccines, Bancel said he is “encouraged by the dialogue” that the company has had with the FDA. In addition to getting updated Covid shots, albeit with limitations, Moderna also received expanded approval this year for its respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine to include adults ages 18 to 59 who are at increased risk of disease. The vaccine was initially approved in May 2024 for adults aged 60 years and older.

“I think a lot of people back in January, including my own team, were quite worried that we might not get those approvals,” Bancel said.

The administration’s crackdown on mRNA research so far has not extended to the cancer space, and Moderna is developing several mRNA therapies against cancer, including personalized cancer vaccines. The company has 45 cancer-related programs in the pipeline, and has said it expects 10 FDA approvals in the next three years. “We are using exactly the same technology to go from infectious disease to cancer,” Bancel said.

He also addressed accusations that the Covid vaccines have not been well tested. “I don’t think there’s been a vaccine more studied for efficacy and safety in the history of vaccines,” he said. “In terms of vaccine efficacy and safety, there’s been studies done in literally millions of people in the real world.”



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Call Of Duty Responds To Ugly Skins By Making A Big Change To Black Ops 7

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Activision and Treyarch are making a big change to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, just under 12 weeks before its launch in November. All those wacky cosmetics from Black Ops 6 will no longer carry over to the new sequel as previously promised. The devs behind Call of Duty say the change is to ensure Black Ops 7 is “authentic to Call of Duty and its setting.”

On August 26, in a lengthy community update posted on the official Call of Duty website, Treyarch thanked fans for all the feedback and acknowledged the ongoing conversation online surrounding crossover skins and wacky cosmetic items in video games.

“We know there’s been a lot of conversation recently about the identity of Call of Duty,” said the studio. “Some of you have said we’ve drifted from what made Call of Duty unique in the first place: immersive, intense, visceral and in many ways grounded. That feedback hits home, and we take it seriously. We hear you.”

Players were worried that the weird cosmetics and crossover skins from Black Ops 6 would immediately turn Black Ops 7 into a Fortnite-like experience. That’s because the plan was to let skins from BLOPS 6, which now includes characters like Beavis and Butt-Head, carry over to BLOPS 7. But that’s no longer happening.

“Operators, Operator Skins, and Weapons from Black Ops 6 will no longer carry forward into Black Ops 7,” announced Treyarch. “Black Ops 7 needs to feel authentic to Call of Duty and its setting. That is why Black Ops 6 Operator and Weapon content will not carry forward to Black Ops 7. Double XP tokens and GobbleGums will still carry forward, because we recognize your time and progression are important.”

The developers of Black Ops 7 also claimed that a “ton of feedback” has already been implemented into the game. And the studio explained that future cosmetic bundles and items added to BLOPS 7 will be “crafted to fit the Black Ops identity.” Treyarch further added: “We hear the feedback. We need to deliver a better balance toward the immersive, core Call of Duty experience.”

Activision did confirm that BLOPS 6 skins will still move over to Warzone. So your strange collection of characters can still go enjoy battle royale.



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DICE lead responds to criticism that Battlefield 6 beta maps were ‘not how Battlefield should be,’ urges everyone to ‘go play some smaller/medium maps in BF3 and BF4 to get a good example of the intensity curve’

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By all reasonable metrics, the Battlefield 6 beta was a resounding hit. Not only is BF6 already very fun based on the handful of maps and modes we got our hands on, but the two-weekend playtest period broke records for the series on Steam.

The beta wound down this morning with players clamoring for its October 10 launch day, but not without reservations. Among longtime fans, the loudest criticism surrounded map size: The beta lacked a truly big map that captured classic Battlefield chaos.

DICE lead producer David Sirland has been the one to field these complaints over the last few weeks. After the first beta weekend, Sirland assured folks that ‘large maps exist’ in BF6, but the studio chose to test small ones to show it could handle the “full-octane” chaos of CoD.


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Then, well, it added yet another small map in weekend two, reinforcing concerns that the full map pool of nine will prioritize CoD run ‘n gunning over Battlefield’s traditional spaced-out firefights.

“That’s not how Battlefield should be,” X user Blasts4Satan replied to Sirland on August 15. “Listen to the veteran players, not the CoD fanboys. This is y’all’s last chance and it’s already looking a little too much like the other game in the room.”

We are very much looking back at our past modern incarnations when it comes to pacing. I’d urge everyone to go and play some smaller/medium map BF3 and BF4 to get a good example of the intensity curve.It is slower and more deliberate on the larger maps, as it was in the past.August 18, 2025

Returning to the thread days later to reply, Sirland reaffirmed that BF6’s pacing is on the same trajectory as the games it’s most inspired by, Battlefield 3 and 4.

“We are very much looking back at our past modern incarnations when it comes to pacing. I’d urge everyone to go and play some smaller/medium maps in BF3 and BF4 to get a good example of the intensity curve,” Sirland wrote. “It is slower and more deliberate on the larger maps, as it was in the past.”

It’s true that close-quarters, high-intensity maps are nothing new for the series: BF3 and BF4 had loads of smaller, linear meat grinder maps that folks remember fondly. I remember the disappointment when the only map available in the 2011 BF3 console beta (the PC version got an extra, larger map) was Operation Metro, a cramped trek through grass and tunnels that was unfriendly to vehicles.

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At the time, I thought BF3 didn’t feel much like Battlefield, but I warmed to it at launch after playing Caspian Border: a wide valley of rolling hills, military compounds, and jet runways that checked every Battlefield box.

Still, Sirland repeatedly saying “large maps exist” and pointing to a 14-year-old game for proof doesn’t inspire much confidence. If large maps were a focus of BF6, you’d think we’d know what they look like by now. It’s reasonable to conclude that the BF6 beta was BF Studios debuting the primary identity of the game: Pretty and destructible maps, cramped gunfights, and sometimes vehicles.

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