EA has announced that an open beta of Battlefield Hardline will be available from February 3rd. The hugely anticipated Cops 'n' Robbers 'em up will come with three playable maps - Dustbowl (which supports up to 64 players!), Downtown and a Bank Job - the latter enabling players to try out heist mode. (Who'd have…

EA has just wrapped up its press conference at Gamescom in Germany, and has released twelve minutes of single player footage - showing just how radically different the game is from previous Battlefield releases. For the uninitiated, the game takes a step away from the military action of previous games and instead focuses on Cops…

That was a bit of a shocker – at the end of EA's E3 press conference it was announced that the forthcoming Battlefield: Hardline was launching an open beta… today! To play the Cops 'n' Robbers 'em Up now, all…