Source says new content service to arrive during E3 next month will offer content drops with exclusive items for DICE's modern day shooter.

Electronic Arts will release a premium service for Battlefield 3 on June 4 (the day of EA's E3 2012 media briefing), a "reliable source" has told Battlefieldo. According to the site, the service will be titled Battlefield Premium, and it will grant players a range of exclusive content.

The first piece of content to be given to Battlefield Premium members will include a knife and a black dog tag, as well as a set of soldier camo, weapon camo, and Assignments. Future content was not revealed, and it was not not mentioned if Battlefield Premium will incur a subscription fee.

Ziba Tower was the first map for the up and coming Close Quarters DLC to be previewed, today we now have a trailer for Donya Fortress. This map appears to be set in a villa setting, players will engage one another in tunnels, a court yard, and of course hallways. The HD destruction really shines with dust raining from the ceiling and papers flying about.

Since the patch was released a few weeks ago, many weapons have become a lot more balanced. However, some weapons have been strengthened, a bit to much. The M26 MASS is one such weapon, well attachment that has been strengthened. Chances are, you've noticed more people using these weapons with a substantial effect on the game.

Today DICE released a new Battlefield 3 server patch. This new R21 patch includes some new RCON features and a few bug fixes.

Below you can find a short list with the changes.

Changelist:

• Fixed AA missiles not doing damage to vehicles moving at very high speeds.
• Fixed TV Missile doing much more damage than it should (it is no longer a 1-hit kill)
• Tweaked tank armor strength
• MAV elevatoring fix, round 2; proning on the MAV will still disable it
• RCON admin.say command implemented
• A few invalid map+gamemode combinations in maplist.txt could crash the server on startup; these combinations are now rejected instead
• RCON vars.serverDescription was not returning anything in R20 if the string was not set; this has been changed to return “” instead
• RCON player.onChat now reports the target player subset