When DICE showed the first footage of Battlefield Heroes during their GDC media event, we were pleased as pop with the prospect: a free-to-play, free-to-join third-person shooter played through your web browser is exactly what we’ve been asking Santa for the last few years. While we’re sure that microtransactions and advertisements will be all over the place, they’ve promised a few in-game features that could very easily help us to forget all that nonsense.

A recent email went out regarding the impending beta test of the game, informing users of a possible security breach that exposes forum usernames and encrypted passwords. "While passwords are encrypted," said QA Boss, the organization handling registration for the test, "it must be assumed that the encryption can be broken." QA Boss is encouraging all of its users to change their forum password, and to update any other services that might have the same password on record. Let’s hope this doesn’t push the beta test back in any way.