UGO has a Battlefield Vietnam preview, offering a hands-on look at the new game from Digital Illusions Canada. Thanks HomeLAN Fed.

There is a new Battlefield Vietnam Q&A on GameSpot tonight, asking designer AJ Marini a few questions about this upcoming Battlefield sequel. There's talk about weapons and vehicles, the maps, improved terrain and graphics, special audio features and more.

GameSpot is offering the first video footage from Battlefield Vietnam, available to those who have a basic account there. The streamable gameplay trailer runs for about a minute and twenty seconds. Update: the official BF1942 website now carries the movie as well, thanks blankoboy.

The guys at GenGamers once again have a batch of new screenshots from Battlefield Vietnam, showing several locations and vehicles from the new Digital Illusions first person shooter.

As part of a really brief development update, the Battlefield Command website has several new screenshots from this new strategy game in development at 1C Company. The shots show the Polish Vickers Mk.E Type A tank used during World War 2. Thanks Blues'.

Over at GenGames you can find three new screenshots from Battlefield Vietnam, the sequel to Battlefield 1942. Looks pretty good.

EA has just sent out the latest and greatest Battlefield 1942 patch for everyone to play with. You can now update your BF1942 install to v1.45 via a incremental patch or just re-grab the whole thing. Here's the files:

- BF1942 v1.4 - v1.45 patch
- BF1942 v1.45 patch
- BF1942 v1.45 Windows server

There is a new Battlefield Vietnam Q&A today, on fan site BF42.de. Armand "Aj" Marini gets to answers questions about the helicopters, the new game features, realism vs fun, use of a physics engine and environmental destruction.

BF42.de: Is BF Vietnam heavily based on the code of BF 1942, or did you more or less reinvent the wheel and wrote a new engine from scratch ? In that context, what does BF Vietnam mean for Mods? Start from scratch, too?
Aj: We didn't completely reinvent the wheel, but the game is completely new to a great extent. Some systems are carryovers, but most of them have been modified. As I mentioned above, the control point system is one that has been changed and there are many more systems that have been changed. The rendering engine is new and everything the player sees in game has been created using new systems and methods. As far as what this means for Mods, I can say that to a fair extent, Mods will need to be recreated in order to work with the BF Vietnam system.

Over at WorthPlaying you can find a new set of screenshots from Battlefield Command, the upcoming World War 2 strategy game from the guys at 1C (IL-2 Sturmovik).

Computer & Video Games has a new Battlefield Vietnam Q&A, asking producer A.J. Marini about the new game's setting, singleplayer improvements, new gameplay elements, new multiplayer modes and plenty of other things.

Milking that single day CampEA event for all its worth, GameSpy now has posted their impressions of Battlefield Vietnam which was on display there as well. It's a good overview of what the game will have to offer in case you hadn't read much about it just yet.

More impressions of Battlefield Vietnam are online, you can check out GameSpot and PC.IGN which are both pretty positive about the new game.

The yearly Camp EA press event has started, and Electronic Arts has released some media from the games they are showing there. Here are screenshots from Battlefield Vietnam, which will be released early next year.

HomeLAN Fed's JCal has posted his impressions of the game based on the demonstration at Camp EA.

How about that boys and girls, Electronic Arts & Digital Illusions have just announced a new Battlefield game - Battlefield Vietnam. Currently in development for the PC, the game will be released early 2004.

The Battlefield franchise is entering a new era with more firepower and beautiful yet ferocious new combat settings. Staying true to the over-the-top, action-packed multiplayer style that gave Battlefield 1942 its critical and commercial success, Battlefield Vietnam will drop players into some of the Vietnam War's fiercest battles. Fighting in theatres from jungles surrounding the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the city streets of Hue, players will choose from two well-equipped forces, the United States or the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Vietcong.

Like BF1942, Battlefield Vietnam will feature a singleplayer as well as a multiplayer part, and will have "new rendering and sound engines".

As noted in this new community update on the official Battlefield 1942 site, the 1.4 patch for the game has been released. There is a full download as well as a 1.31 -> 1.4 update. For you Linux server admins, here is the new release of the dedicated server and if you run a Windows server there is a new dedicated server release for that as well. The Battlefield 1942 1.4 patch offers a ton of changes, fixes and additions, among them there are two new weapons and a change of the "game feeling". Lastly, EA has FINALLY released a (beta) map editor for the game along with some sample maps.

The official Battlefield 1942 website has a new community update, offering additional news about their recent decision to not allow client side mods anymore. Patch 1.4 will now include a server side option to allow client side mods or not.

GameSpy Daily is reporting that a search at the US Patent and Trademark Office's website reveals that Digital Illusions, developer of Battlefield 1942, has filed for a trademark for the name Battlefield Vietnam. Of course this doesn't mean that the game is actually being worked on, but it's indeed a possibility. First a rush of WW2 action games, now the Vietnam war is set to follow it seems with Line of Sight: Vietnam, Vietcong, Men of Valor: Vietnam and possibly Operation Flashpoint 2 and Battlefield Vietnam.

EA has just released a new patch for Battlefield 1942, updating the WW2 shooter to version 1.31. Here's what this patch takes care of

Network/Server Fixes
- We fixed a crash in co-op mode when restarting the map - this crash was known to occur right after a map switch
- We removed the default Remote Admin Password for servers - there was a default password in place that could be used as an exploit
- We changed the object collision system to prevent exploits involving players hiding inside of objects - more widely known as the "Coral Sea" bug
Client Fixes
- We locked out an exploit to prevent users from seeing through walls.
Sound Fixes
- We modified several attributes of the sound system to provide better sound performance.

And if you run a dedicated server, here's the updated release of that.

The fifth Battlefield 1942 community update is now online. Not much this time, but it is mentioned that the 1.2 patch should be released in about two weeks. Thanks Arjun Thakur.

The official Battlefield 1942 site at EA.com has a new community message with some additional information about the upcoming 1.2 patch. Unfortunately, client prediction improvements will not be included. Here's what is mentioned

This one's a toughie. We will not be able to address client prediction in the 1.2 patch. The fixes are more complicated than we initially thought. Rather than putting you all through change and counter-change, we want to get it right the first time. So, please be patient...we're aware of the problem and working to solve it.

The update also mentions mods, work on the (Linux) server and options to kick/ban team killers and the fixing of cheats.