According to rumors swirling around the web these days, EA is looking to release a service similar to Call of Duty Elite. BF3Blog first reported on the possibility of this back in February, and now it appears that the rumors are true. The service, called “Battlefield Premium”, would work much like CoD Elite, where players pay a subscription fee or a one-time fee, and get “content drops” in return. As a leaked description of the service says:

“Battlefield™ Premium will land you a number of content drops with unique in-game items not available anywhere else. First out is the one-of-a-kind Premium knife and black dog tag, plus a set of soldier camos, weapon camos, dog tags and Assignments that will make sure you stand out and get more personalization options.”

The new service is rumored to be unveiled at E3 2012 in the beginning of June. While the service sounds very similar to what Call of Duty has, this wouldn’t be the first time a Battlefield game gets this kind of DLC: Bad Company 2′s “Specact Kit”, offered players new player and weapon camouflage for $5.

Donya Fortress, the second map for the Close Quarters DLC was revealed yesterday. A map that focuses on villa/courtyard style combat, with a bit of underground action thrown in. The trailer presented featured the “Conquest Domination” game mode—somewhat similar to conquest. Today, we have some various screen shots of this new Battlefield 3 map:

The latest game server update has completed internal QA, and has been sent out to all the RSP companies. They are doing small-scale testing of it during the evening.

If no problems are reported by the RSPs, then the companies will gradually roll it out over the next few days, starting at 10:00 UTC on Thursday Apr 19th.