Battlefield 3 Review Delays, BF3CC, Drivers, & Origin ID Changer

Day 1 Battlefield 3 Patch Delays GameSpot ReviewGameSpot is reporting their review of Battlefield 3 might be delayed due to late arrival of their review copy. Although the reasoning behind this is DICE is planning a day 1 update and reviewing a different version of the game would make it hard to review accurately. The last paragraph of the article states they is a chance they might be getting a fully patched version of the game this weekend for review. 

Just yesterday we received an email asking us to confirm our mailing address because review copies of Battlefield 3 are coming soon. More specifically, the email explained that the game will be making its way to our mailboxes "early next week." In case any of you have lost track of time during this busy fall season, Battlefield 3's release date of October 25 is also "early next week." Clearly, receiving a game so close to its release makes it impossible for us to deliver a timely review. Read the Rest...

BF3CC
Sever admins get good news today as the admin tool BF3CC is in development and a preview screenshot of the tool can be found on their website. 

New Graphics Drivers
NVIDIA has stated they will release new drivers a day before Battlefield 3 launches. AMD has already released a Catalyst Application Profile with Battlefield 3 support.

NVIDIA

FYI. New drivers will be released the day before Battlefield 3 launches. Make sure to grab them especially if you will be purchasing Battlefield 3 as there are numerous bug fixes and better performance as well. For those who have modded the latest Quadro driver (http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-tesla-win7-winvista-64bit- 285.58-whql-driver.html) it is very close to the final driver but is missing a few Battlefield 3 fixes so if you do download and mod them, make sure to update to the newest Geforce drivers next week. The Quadro driver does contain the fix we've added to address the TDR issue.

AMD

Latest profiles added :

• Battlefield 3: Provides great CrossFire scaling and reduces flickering / corruption issues when running in CrossFire mode

Origin ID Changer
EA has launched a page where users can officially change their Origin ID. Your Origin ID will be your soldier name in Battlefield 3.