Battlefield 6 is gearing up for its big moment, and from what I played during the beta, it feels like a return to form for one of my favorite videogame series. But when it comes to large-scale battles, it doesn’t have my undivided attention. After being revived and ‘re-revealed’ by Blue Dot Games earlier this year, ‘83 looks to find a middle ground between the relentless action of Battlefield and the more hardcore, demanding firefights of Hell Let Loose, all packaged in an alt-Cold War setting. At Gamescom, I quizzed Blue Dot CEO Tony Gillham about bringing the game back from the dead, its approach of “accessible realism,” and what it’s learning (and rejecting) from some of the biggest FPS games around.

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