Picnic could be a brand new shooter-flavoured take on PopCap’s popular series, but it seems sensible to guess that it could be Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 3, especially considering the development talent behind it.
The alpha will run for three hours per day between August 1 - 2, and run as a longer multi-day event starting at 11am PT on August 3 and concluding at 11am PT on August 6.The Picnic invites offer no insight into what the playtest will offer, or any hints to what kind of experience the game will offer.
It’s important to note that Picnic is not Plants vs Zombies 3, which is in development at PopCap and currently available in pre-alpha for Android users in the United States. EA recently announced that new Plants vs Zombies and Need for Speed games would be delivered, but we didn’t expect two PvZ games to appear within days of each other. Matt Purslow is IGN's News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.