EA has confirmed the rumours that 3 will not be available through potentially indicating the rift between and Valve's dominant download platform is at the very least continuing if not growing.

Crysis 2 and II have already been removed from Steam due to conflicts with the download platform's new terms of service although EA maintains that they are looking for ways to return their key titles to Steam.

EA said of the pulling of Dragon Age II: "Steam has adopted a set of restrictive terms of service which limit how developers interact with customers to sell downloadable content. No other download service has adopted this practice. Consequently some of our games have been removed by Steam. We hope to work out an agreement to keep our games on Steam.

Battlefield 3 is out on PC, and on October the 25th in the and October the 28th in Europe.

Thanks IndustryGamers.

By Ewan Aiton