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Battlefield Heroes, EA’s free-to-play online action game, has been pushed to 2009, according to the game’s senior producer, James Salt. In a post on the official site for the game, Salt explains what the team is working on and where the beta is headed.

The short answer on that is that it will soon be shutting down. Salt goes on to say that the development team has enough feedback from closed beta players to move onto the next phase of development. The game will launch a new closed beta in early 2009. Salt’s full statement to the community follows, after the break:

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Electronic Arts quietly announced a new initiative this week to identify and track players across multiple platforms. The initiative has been codenamed “nucleus,” and what it does, in layman’s terms, is store a gamer’s profile (likes, dislikes, friends and achievements). this information, your game identity, follows the user across games and platforms creating a reputation system, kind of like a gamer’s passport.

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