EA Seems To Have Accidentally Leaked Battlefield 6′s Release Date

By Elijah Gonzalez  |  July 24, 2025 | 2:25pm
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EA Seems To Have Accidentally Leaked Battlefield 6′s Release Date

Battlefield 6’s first trailer went live today, teasing the upcoming military FPS’s story mode. Through in-engine cutscenes, we see a fictionalized US president delivering a patriotic speech as an alarming number of helicopters crash into buildings. Apparently, the game follows a conflict between America and a private military company called Pax Armada, who seem to be the bad guys this time around. At the end of the trailer, there was a tease for a full multiplayer reveal on July 31.

However, perhaps the biggest news that came out of the trailer was unintentional: EA seems to have accidentally leaked the game’s planned release date. At the end of the video, there’s a link to a legal disclaimer page for Battlefield 6‘s in-game purchases. If you typed the link into a search browser right after the trailer debuted, you would have seen a disclaimer about how the game’s Standard Edition Pre-Sell Offers will end on October 10, implying it will be coming out on that date. “This promotional offer expires October 10, 2025. Code expires October 10, 2027,” the page used to read. The above link has since been taken down, but not before Eurogamer and many others took a screenshot.

That date is corroborated by a previous leak from datamining that also indicated an October 10 release. The datamines also suggested that the game would have an open beta starting in August. Battlefield 6 has been undergoing a several-month-long closed Alpha test that has made many of its details an open secret, like how it is slated to be a modern-day entry in the series styled more after Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4.

Beyond this, reporting by Ars Technica alleged that Battlefield 6‘s development costs are well north of $400 million at this point and that EA established a somewhat absurd internal target for the game to reach 100 million players over a set period of time, which would be more than every previous entry in the series combined. Especially after Battlefield 2042’s largely negative reception, it will be interesting to see if this sequel can get even close to that goal.

You can view Battlefield 6’s story trailer below:

 
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