Last year, EA opened up a new studio, EA Motive, under Jade Raymond, who had formerly worked with Ubisoft and had most notably launched the Assassin’s Creed franchise so successfully. Today, Raymond shared an update on the state of her studio, noting that it had grown to employ 65 people, and confirming that it was currently working on a new Star Wars game, and that it was also exploring some ideas for a new, original, IP.

Raymond also confirmed that EA Visceral under Amy Hennig was currently working on a new story oriented Star Wars game as well. This, of course, lines up with EA’s announced strategy of having a new Star Wars game out every year starting next year.

Finally, she also confirmed that EA Motive and Visceral are both now actively hiring- so if you’re interested in working on Star Wars, or working with EA, I guess give them a ring.

DICE and EA Visceral’s cops and robbers themed Battlefield Hardline‘s Getaway DLC is available to all Xbox One owners for absolutely free right now. All Xbox Live Gold members can grab it for free through the store through the rest of the week.

Currently, the DLC is free only on Xbox One, as the headline suggests, but when Battlefield DLC has been made available for free before, it has usually been across all platforms- albeit the PS4 and PC versions of the game usually get it for free a bit later than the Xbox One.

Battlefield Hardline was released last year on the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC. It will be followed up by this year’s release of the World War 1 themed, fantastic seeming Battlefield 1, which, being the first game in the franchise designed exclusively for the next generation spec, will be launching on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Battlefield Hardline Premium, the subscription service/season pass fusion for Battlefield Hardline that entitles players to all expansions, maps, DLC, and early access to all content, is now available to Xbox One players for absolutely free, down from its usual price of $50- as long as those players subscribe to EA Access, that is.

EA Access is, of course, a great deal, offered at a ridiculously cheap price, that makes it all but mandatory for any Xbox One owner to have (unless they absolutely loath and detest literally every single title that EA puts out, for some reason)- so on the whole, this deal is basically bordering on highway robbery.

With this addition, subscribers of EA Access on Xbox One should get access to the complete Battlefield Hardline experience- which is just in time, because the next Battlefield game is now due to be revealed at the end of this week, on May 6.

The newest DLC pack for DICE and EA Visceral’s Battlefield Hardline, the cops and robbers spin off of the Battlefield franchise that released to absolutely no fanfare last year, seems like it will be fairly substantial. Battlefield Hardline Betrayal will add a total of eighteen new weapons and four new maps to the game, according to Westie.

Betrayal is anticipated to be the final DLC pack for the game (though DICE routinely supports its games far beyond the end of the Season Pass- so we ay expect some free content updates for Hardline going forward anyway), and it looks like the game is at least going out in style.

The fourteen new weapons being added to the game include AUG A3 Assault Rifle, MP9 Machine Pistol, SP-AR DMR, Improvised Pistol, MX4 PDW, M98b Sniper Rifle, M1903 Springfield WW1 Rifle, WW1 Lewis Gun, Mammoth Gun (Triple Barrel Shotgun), RPK-74 Assault Rifle, Dual Wield Scorpions (Secondary), A-8S Harpoon Gun, M4 Shotgun, Karambit Knife, Devil’s Toothpick Knife, Cleaver, Inquisition Sword (from Dragon Age), and a Shovel. The new maps are Chinatown, Alcatraz, Cemetery, and Thin Ice.

Battlefield Hardline is available on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, and PC.

Battlefield Hardline‘s new expansion, The Getaway, will be tweaking quite a bit in the game. It adds new stuff, sure, but it will also be changing a fair bit, which should freshen things up for those of you who have been playing the game since its launch last year.

The changes are numerous, and on the whole, they sound fun. They include being able to ride on top of the train in Train Dodge, armored limousines, hidden tunnels in the Double Cross map, destructible environments that let you make new paths and shortcuts, especially on the Pacific Highway map, and many, many more.

A lot of the changes are minor- they are only neat little tweaks to animation, or changes that fall in the ‘attention to detail’ camp. But on the whole, the full list of changes is definitely bound to be something that the entire playerbase will probably appreciate.

Battlefield Hardline is available on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, and PC.

EA started off its E3 2012 presser in style, by unveiling Dead Space 3, the third installment in the survival horror series by Visceral Games.

The game stars a new main character, has drop in-drop out co-op, has new locations such as a frozen, haunted planet, and frankly, looks awesome.

The game looks slightly trippy, with loads of colors and flashing lights. Frankly, a bit disappointingly, it doesn’t look all that scary anymore, looking more like a third person action survival game than anything else, with giant monsters and people replacing the… zombies? There’s also a cover system, and a focus on explosions more than the slow paced brooding horror of the first two games. Dead Space 3 might just be this series’ Resident Evil 5.

Dead Space  is due out in February 2013. Check out the gameplay video and the trailer below.