San Francisco, CA — April 12, 2006 — Today Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game publishers and Gearbox Software, one of the world's best video game developers announced that Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway is in development for next generation video game platforms, including the PLAYSTATION3 system and the PC. Scheduled for a holiday 2006 release, Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway is the third game in the multimillion-unit selling and critically acclaimed Brothers In Arms franchise.

Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a completely redesigned online component. Delivering on the franchise's compelling story, unrivaled authenticity and intense squad-based action, Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway drops you into Operation Market-Garden, the largest airborne operation of World War II. Lead Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division as they fight to open "Hell's Highway" in a daring bid for a quick end to the war.

Gearbox Software's original games on next generation consoles and PC to use Unreal Engine 3 exclusively.

PLANO, TX - September 22nd, 2005 - Gearbox Software, L.L.C. and Epic
Games announced today that they have entered into an a long-term
agreement that will see Epic's Unreal® Engine 3 technology be the
exclusive technology Gearbox uses for next-generation console and PC
games for Gearbox-owned intellectual properties. Gearbox has previously
licensed the Unreal Engine for the hugely successful Brothers In Arms
Road to Hill 30, and upcoming sequel, Brothers In Arms Earned in Blood,
on PC, Xbox and PlayStation2. Along with other original, unannounced

UBISOFT and Gearbox Software have released the 630MB demo of the Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood for PC. The game is due for release on October 6th. Thanks, Wingasaurus55.

COVERAGE:

http://www.dailygame.net/news/archives/004640.php
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/09/21/news_6134026.html
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/652/652590p1.html
http://www.borsa-italia.net/article22945.html
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/press_release.php?aid=11673
http://gamesfirst.com/?id=714
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/nid/1237/1515/
http://download.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=9293

Brothers in Arms 3 is coming to a next generation console and UBISOFT is ready for the world to know. More details will pour out in the coming days about this sequel to Earned in Blood.

COVERAGE:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3144000
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/652/652516p1.html
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php?id=126009
http://ps2.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=9300
http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=10700
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/652/652497p1.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26332

In case you are unfamiliar with the story behind Earned in Blood, the sequel to Road to Hill 30, a new video has been published. UBI has released a new video detailing the storyline in Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood. TeamXBOX has coverage.

On a side note, the server change is eminent.

UBIsoft has announced its plan for 2005-2006 and in it is a spot for the next chapter of Brothers in Arms. They state that BiA2 is expected to be out for the holiday season of 2005.

I wonder if we'll get an announcement about BiA2 at E3 and we might even get to see some of the levels or missions that Gearbox already has completed for BiA2.

IGN is reporting that BiA for Playstation 2 and PC has gone gold and will be due out on March 17th!

UBI officially releases the Brothers in Arms Missions and Maps video. You can download or stream the video from the UBI website.

dat-guy points out that Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 has gone gold! The XBOX version of the game will be available on March 1, 2005. The PC and Playstation 2 versions of the game will ship "shortly after". Thanks to everyone who sent emails and submitted the news posts. Update: Coverage here: DailyGame, IGN, Ve3d, Boomtown, Total Video Games, Gamesindustry.biz, Gaming Horizon, Gamespot, Shacknews. Click read more for the announcement.

UBI's website lists all 3 BiA versions as being released in "March 2005". Previously those pages listed the release date as "February 2005". With a gold announcement soon, we could very well see the game by the end of March. Again, don't have faith in the release dates of game retailers like Gamestop, EBGames, Wal-mart, Amazon, etc. until after UBI makes their gold announcement.

I just noticed that there are a couple of new subforums on UBI's official Brothers in Arms forums. It looks like they have split the Brothers in Arms main discussion forum into 2 separate forums - one forum is for console dicussion of BiA while the other is for PC discussion of BiA. Hmm. They have also added an Off Topic forum for non-BiA releated discussion. Forum links:

UBI BiA PC Discussion
UBI BiA Console Discussion
UBI BiA Historical Discussion
UBI BiA Off-Topic Discussion

Nick from http://brothersinarms.nl writes to say that the site is back online as UBI's official Dutch Brothers in Arms site. Stay tuned to their site as they will visit UBIsoft next week and will offer up another international website in the coming weeks (roadtohill30.com).

UBIsoft reports that holiday sales were down but expects record Q4 figures. They didn't release that many games over the holiday period which they claim is why the numbers were down. But, they expect a strong next quarter with the launch of Brothers in Arms and the next version of Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. "Ubisoft is projecting fourth quarter earnings of 220 million Euro, which will leave its overall sales for the year up by ten per cent - a reversal of the first nine months of the year, which have seen sales down by 11 per cent." Source: GamesIndustry.biz.

UBI has posted System Requirements on the Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 website at ubi.com. The minimum system requirements are like those unofficially stated prior to now.

System Requirements:

• Supported OS: Windows® 98SE/ME/2000/XP (only)
• Processor: Pentium® III or AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz (Pentium IV or AMD Athlon 2.5 GHz recommended)
• RAM: 256 MB (1 GB recommended)
• Video Card: 64 MB DirectX® 9.0c compliant (128 MB recommended) (see supported list*)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card (EAX recommended) (PC audio solution containing Dolby® Digital Live required for Dolby Digital audio)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c or higher (included on disc)
• CD-ROM: 8X CD or 4X DVD (16X CD recommended)
• Hard Drive Space: 4 GB free (5 GB recommended)
• Peripherals: Windows-compatible mouse and keyboard required
• Multiplay: Broadband modem, 64 Kbps upload (128 Kbps recommended)

*Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:

• ATI Radeon 8500/9000/X series
• NVIDIA® GeForce™ 3/4/FX/6 series (GeForce 4 MX not supported)

Laptop models of these cards not supported.

These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Additional chipsets may be supported after release. For an up-to-date list of supported chipsets, please visit the FAQ for this game on our support website at: http://support.ubi.com.

NOTICE: This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some CD-RW, DVD-RW, and virtual drives.

NVIDIA® nForce™ or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio.

The new Brothers in Arms website from UBIsoft and Gearbox Software is ready. Go check it out now! http://www.brothersinarmsgame.com.