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Still feeling a bit sleepy from the weekend? Here's about 12 seconds of waaaagh-blam from Battlefield 3, featuring subliminally quick 'splodes, huge flaming oil fields, tanks and, for some reason, Jay-Z. It's the next stage in game trailer evolution that will end when a company puts out a trailer that consists entirely of logos and no game footage whatsoever, but this one is thankfully more footage than logos by about a second. Battlefield 3! It's out In one month, on October 25 in the US and October 28 in Europe.

Tom Senior
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Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.

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