EA is ready to take the wraps off the next Battlefield early. The publisher shared a brief glimpse of footage from an alpha version of the game as part of an announcement video for Battlefield Labs, a new early access program that will give fans a taste of in-development Battlefield before it launches.

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.

EA’s Battlefield franchise is entering a new era with the announcement of Battlefield Labs, a new community testing program that EA has come up with to give players a chance to try the game out before its full release.