DICE on Battlelog’s inspiration

Battlefield 3 developer DICE has explained the inspiration behind their shooter’s Battlelog service.

Battlelog producer Frederick Loving explained to Gamasutra:

I looked at all social networks from Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, to of course [Halo] Waypoint and [Call of Duty] Elite. We looked at everything. That’s inspirational for me just finding out what other people do and just sort of grabbing the good pieces out of it.

Of course we’re inspired by a lot of the social networks that are out there and they’re all pretty common if you look at them. They have the similar feeds, they have similar likes, they have similar comments so there’s a lot of common features amongst all social networks.

Battlefield 3 releases this coming Tuesday.