Last year over 13,000 Battlefielders stepped up to help push video game science forward as part of the PsyOps research campaign. Each gamer filled out a personality test and offered his Battlefield 3 statistics. Now all the answers are in, and they might just surprise you.

It turns out that how you play Battlefield 3 does say a bit about who you are. Slower players are more careful and precise in real life. People who tend to shrug off their real-life duties tend to be better players. And, of all the statistics that are tracked for Battlefield 3, your Unlock Score says the most about your personality. The more and the faster you unlock new gear in the game, the less careful, precise, and out-going you are in real life.

Now keep in mind that these effects are all averages over big groups, and the effects are small. Other games might show bigger effects, or maybe other game statistics need to be examined (‘Bunny Hops per Minute’ anyone?). As it is, we know that play style and personality are linked. You do show a little of yourself in how you play a game. Yet there is an additional surprise: we are all showing our age on the Battlefield. Not a little, but a lot. The relationship between age and play style is quite strong. It turns out older players kill less and die less, aim worse, and score less. Yet, older gamers do not lose more often … even their objective score is similar to that of younger gamers. Basically, younger players are better at Battlefield 3, but older players know the true meaning of PTFO.

Curious to read more about these results? You can head over to the new PsyOps Research page to find out more.

Crysis 3 has been released this week and we announce the launch of our new Stats website for Crysis 3.

All players who play the Muliplayer, can see their stats by just searching for their name. It works on all platforms (PC, XBOX 360, PS3).
Crysis 3 offers the richest amount of different stats you have ever seen in a video game.



On Crysis3s.com you find stats about suit modes, weapons, kills, perks, maps, game modes and hundreds of leaderboards where you can be the best.

Just have a look and tell us what you think!

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In 2012 we recorded over 11.1 million players playing Battlefield 3.
3.3 million of them were watched on BF3Stats.com.



The strongest platform with over 4.4 million players recorded is PS3. Followed by XBOX360 with 3.6 million players and PC with 3.1 million players.
But interested in BF3Stats.com were mostly PC players with over 1.8 million players stored in our database(PS3: 880k, XBOX360: 620k).

Our database contains currently over 51 million history entries. About 15 entries per player.
About 30k dynamic stats graphics were rendered over 800 million times since start of BF3Stats.

If you like such facts, we post them from time to time on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BF3Stats

NFS-S.com got now a Facebook page, too: https://www.facebook.com/NFSWStats