The next Battlefield game is targeting a release date before April 2026, according to the latest earnings report from Electronic Arts (EA), though the company's leadership is keeping things flexible in case this window becomes disadvantageous — perhaps due to a game like GTA 6 dropping around the same time.

Electronic Arts narrows down the release date for the next installment of the legendary Battlefield series, and it may come sooner than expected.

The new Battlefield is expected to be the biggest BF ever created by Electronic Arts. The next Battlefield will be released before April 1, 2026, Electronic Arts assures in its latest financial summary. Related: Battlefield 7 tests attract many players. Some of them are asking whether it's worth it

EA CEO Andrew Wilson mentions "Apex 2.0," though he confirms players shouldn't expect it out before the new Battlefield game.

However, don’t expect “Apex 2.0” to arrive anytime soon. Wilson confirmed that the “more major update” will only be launched after the next Battlefield game, likely to keep both of the publisher’s shooters from cannibalising each other in terms of retaining players. As EA puts it, “we probably wouldn't drop that on top of a Battlefield launch.”

EA pulled back the curtain on Battlefield 6, revealing a few scant details ahead of an upcoming community playtest. Today, the publisher has one more piece of news: the new Battlefield game is currently set to launch sometime before March 31,

We might not have seen a whole lot of EA's next Battlefield game beyond the few seconds of footage shared this week, but it turns out it's not all that far away. The publisher has confirmed it expect the long-runnong shooter series' latest instalment to arrive before April next year.