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Bohemia Interactive Postpones Arma 3

The new release window for Arma 3 has been pushed to an unspecified time in 2013. Bohemia Interactive expects the release plans to be finalized next year, and is confident that the additional development time will allow the game’s full potential to be realized.

Project lead, Joris-Jan van‘t Land, referred to the imprisonment of two Bohemia Interactive employees in Greece as a problem they couldn’t have imagined.

The two employees were arrested earlier this year on suspicion of espionage, while visiting the island of Lemnos, which inspired the environment in Arma 3. The two employees are still in jail and awaiting legal proceedings. While Land acknowledges the arrest affected the studio on a personal level, he also states that the team is continuing to work on tasks which are integral to the release of Arma 3.

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  • Those devs really need to be released, this is just ridiculous.
  • Hopefully it will be better with a delay.
  • I really hope those two guys get out fine. The Greek government really crapped the bed on this one.
  • I don't even remember hearing about this. But I want to know more!
  • Surely DayS Standalone is affected as well. Rocket said a holidays 2012 alpha release, but Dec is halfway over and still no news. I'm sad now, I was looking forward to the new Day Z.
  • As long as they are still hard at work on it, it's all good for me. And yes, those two lads in Greece should have been long out. Come on, it's not like they were going to sell any information to the USSR right... Wait, you say there's no longer a USSR? You joke? So I built that nuclear bomb shelter for nothing? Ah fk sake...

  • A possible console port for next gen? Too bad the controls would still be a problem.
  • Really hope the two devs can come home safe. Can't imagine what their friends and family must be going through.

  • more delay on this game please.
  • I hope it´s worth it.

  • I hope they take their time with this game and do it right.  What they have shown so far is amazing, it would be a shame if they screwed it up with poor ai, controls or whatnot.  

  • Every time a game is pushed back I feel like driving my head through a wall, but it is important to remember that they are probably postponed for a reason.

  • I'm surprised anyone actually plays Arma since everyone is always talking about DayZ.
  • No! I was a fan of the first two, this is so disappointing! Hopefully though, with the delay it won't be as buggy as ArmA2.

  • As long as it's great...

  • Its Bohemia Interactive. I've been following their games since before Operation Flashpoint came out and they are worse then Valve when it comes to release dates. Obviously this time around its far more understandable with Ivan and Martin being arrested. Hopefully they get released soon... its simply amazing they are still in jail.

  • Is there any possibility that I'll be able to play this thing on my Mac? We miss out on so many great titles just because we own a far superior machine (sorry, but as a Mac user we're required by law to throw as many jabs at the PC community as humanly possible). I don't want to have to buy a silly Windows machine (jab, jab, jab) just to play these incredible games, but I'm starting to get sick of missing out on some of the industry's best games. I know some of these PC titles can be played on a Mac, but for some reason I'm doubting I'll ever be able to play something like Arma. If someone would just donate their old machine to my non-profit, 'Give Me Your PC', you'd have one more gamer to completely abuse. I know these things break down like every other months (jab, jab, jab, right hook, uppercut) so there has to be someone that's upgrading to a better machine that doesn't want to recoup their initially wasted expenditure (left hook, right hook, and he's down).
  • Well I'm not surprised about the delay, and I really hope this whole situation with the imprisoned devs gets solved soon!

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