"A few months ago we announced Battlefield 2 Update 1.50 was in development, but so far we have been quiet regarding the content of the update. It is time for us to reveal some of the features the update will contain! The priority for us in this update has been to secure Battlefield 2 against a number of attacks against the game.

We have spent time looking into the attacks and implemented short term solutions with the help of GameSpy to limit the impact of stats padding and leaderboard abuse. Other issues have been found to be game and server based, which is where Update 1.50 comes in. what Battlefield 2 1.50 will contain a number of security updates, including the following:

- Server crashing – We have worked with the issues causing servers to crash, which has caused problems for the community (especially those who rent ranked servers).

- Name/ID spoofing – Extra steps have been implemented to ensure the soldier being used belongs to the right account.

- Commander assets – This is to stop the excessive spawning of multiple crates, UAVs or vehicles.

More information on Update 1.50 will be revealed as we approach the release date! "

"Who are you?
Hey, my name is Dawid Mod

Where are you from?
I’m from Sweden. I grew up in a village called Sävar, about 650km north of Stockholm.
A lot of my time as a teenager was dedicated to art. I often sat in my room making crazy drawings or doing paintings.
In high school and two years after high school I studied art and art history. It wasn’t until university that I discovered the sweet taste of computer graphics and 3D.
I spent a year at the University of Luleå in Skellefteå learning 3D.
This was in 2000 - 2001. The year after, May 2002, I began my career here at DICE.

What do you do on heroes?
I’m an artist creating vehicles, weapons and level art.
Also, I’m working with our talented outsourcing artists, giving them feedback on their work.

What’s your favorite heroes aspect?
I love to dress up my little heroes. Nothing girly about that, at all. It´s just so much fun either to make them look really, really cool or really stupid.
I’m also a fly-boy. I love to sweep over the battlefield, select a target and take them out with my left wing, ahhhhh."

"PLAY BAD COMPANY WITH THE DEVS
On Monday evening two members of the Bad Company team at DICE will be online to play some matches with our fellow PS3 gamers. Present will be Producer Gordon Van Dyke and Community Manager Parker. Add us to your friends list and join the server we’re on:

Gordon: PSN ID - GordonVanDyke
Parker: PSN ID - DICE-Parker

We’ll be online on Monday December 1 from 17:00 GMT!"

"Last Tuesday we promised to release the clientdownload and torrentpassword today and here you go! Before you get to read the password we want to give you some further information on new content included in OPK 0.26.

OPK 0.26 includes many bugfixes but apart from this there is some completely new content. In addition to a video presentation of the new Fennekcockpit that we gave you some time ago, we want to give you some hints on changes we haven't told you yet. (Read More)"

"We have received lots of great feedback from our beta testers. So much so that we are now ready to enter our next phase. On Friday evening (6pm CET) we will be closing down the current Closed Beta and moving our focus to polishing the backend. So for a while there will be no closed beta available to play. We expect to re-open the beta early next year."

"As we get closer and closer to release day with that ever present weight of a clock above counting down the inexorable hours until AIX 2.0 is unleashed on the community, we have prepared a little guide on the inner workings of the mysterious BF2SPCC which comes with 2.0. Many of you look quizically at its smooth lines and sultry demeanor, while many others have a slight familiarity and disturbing inkling to the true nature of its powers...

What is a BF2SPCC? Its the Battlefield 2 Single Player Command Centre! All joking aside, there's more to this little powerhouse than meets the eye. While it says single player in the title, the BF2SPCC can do so much more. Its true nature materialises in the form of a fully functioning offline stats and awards system, and all at the click of a checkbox no less!

Delve into the guide for a sneak peek at the many other features the BF2SPCC is capable of before its sultry little shortcut adorns your desktop on release day!"

"f you are interested please read the terms and conditions in this thread and post your interest.

- I will be online with a collegue to conduct interviews on Wednesday 12/11/08 and Thursday 13/11/08
- Between 17:00 and 23:00 UK London time (GMT 0)
- You must have a microphone and Teamspeak installed or we will not interview you.

If you are from anywhere else in the world and you are questioning why you have not been included this is due to network performance issues that will occur due to your great distance from the test server.

Note to testers this mod has been designed for Multiplayer only for both BF40K BF2 & 2142."

"We have become aware of modified Battlefield 2 ranked servers once again that have had an adverse affect on the leaderboards and player accounts. We are working with our partners to prevent this from happening and to return the leaderboards to normal. If you believe your account has been adversely affected by this contact EA Support at http://support.ea.com."

"We are happy to be able to present our fans (and those who might become fans) the new version 1.5 of BG42. For almost half a year the team worked intensively on this new build, creating a fantastic mod with much new content, combining historical accuracy and fun even further. We´ve shown you most of the new content in past news so that today we point your attention to the changelog at the end of this news.

Our sincere thanks not only go out to our team members which put a lot of work, time, passion and a bit of craziness into Battlegroup42 1.5, but also to all the other supporters like DACV and Dnamro for their Coop versions for some maps."

"Eve Of Destruction 2.0 (Battlefield 2)
The Eve of Destruction mod team is proud to announce the release of Eve of Destruction v.2.0 for Battlefield 2. Eve of Destruction for BF2 v.2.0 brings to the gaming community a whole new mod build featuring new armies, new equipment and many new maps. Be sure to read the readme enclosed within the mod build for more details regarding equipment, maps and teams found in EoD v.2.0 for BF2.

Please be sure to also take a look at the quick reference guide that is created on your desktop by the installer of the mod build. It is a text document that you can open with notepad. It contains some useful tips to help you get more enjoyment out of your time in the Jungle."

"Eve Of Destruction 1.0 (Battlefield 1942)
We are also proud to announce the release of Eve of Destruction v.1.0 for Battlefield 1942. EoD v.1.0 features over 130 maps , all with co-op and bot support. It features many new updates and fixes. It takes Battlefield 1942 to a whole new level of game play. EoD for BF1942 is a must for any Vietnam game enthusiast. Be sure to download it and check it out."

"In addition to the new maps released last week we also made some enhancements, check out the details below:

Change log:
· Ticket count has been increased for all Conquest maps to make for longer rounds.
· Find custom match on Conquest was updated to match specified maps better.
· Knife melee no longer instantly kills friendly’s and will take two swipes.
· Bullets and knives now go through undergrowth and tree leaves.
· Shotgun damage in distance has been reduced, but is still just as powerful in closer range.
· Savior Trophy requirements has been tweaked. It will be awarded when you kill an enemy that attacks a teammate and damaged them by 20% or more.
· Drawing weapon time after sprinting is reduced to SP times to improve pace of action.
· AA guns have less deviation and more damage to improve balance vs Gunships.
· Fixed VO to allow English on all teams.
· Miscellaneous server improvements.

Gunships
-Hand weapon damage has been lowered against Gunships, but .50 Cal weapons on Vehicles retain their damage against the Gunships.
-Missile speeds for the pilot has been increased.
-Gunner Machine Gun’s time to overheat increased with splash damage has been reduced.
-Gunships wont explode when touching one tree and will now take damage based on the speed of the Gunship. This means that if you are flying very slowly you can knock over trees and take zero damage, but if you're at top speed 4-5 trees will destroy your Gunship.
-Gunship pilots when close to or on the ground will count as a kill for Recon Kit’s using the Laser Designator"

"Cause Peacecamper is having worries about our community, like the rest of the Team, he has cleaned up his harddrive to make room for the first OPK-Videotutorial.

In todays tutorial is shown how the upgradekits in the upcoming Version 0.26 are working. With the help of Zerknautscher and Schuldi a video was made, which shows very short every (new) important special of our upgradekits and illustrates them very colorful.

The HQ has decided that the Video should be brought to the front very quickly, to help the soldiers to victory. But enough of the talk now. "Company ähhh Community be attentive here is the Video!""

"Greetings troopers! Today we are proud to announce that First Strike was featured in this month's Edge Magazine. This is a huge step forward in publicity since Edge is one of the most Prestigious magazines out there. The article that First Strike is featured in talks about the challenges and difficulties mod teams have when creating a mod."

"Imtheheadhunter has released a couple more BF1942 remakes for BF2. Guadalcanal pits the USMC against against the PLA, and an newly updated version of BattleAxe is also available. Custom statics courtesy of Black Sand Studios. Both maps feature full bot support."

"· Increased Ticket count for all Conquest maps to make for longer rounds
· Find custom match on Conquest was fixed
· Knife melee no longer instantly kills friendly’s and will take two swipes
· Bullets and knives now go through undergrowth and trees leafs
· Shotgun damage in distance reduced, but is still just as powerful in closer range
· Savior Trophy requirements tweaked, awarded when you kill an enemy that attack a teammate and damaged them by 20% or more
· Drawing weapon time after sprinting is reduced to SP times to improve pace of action
· AA guns have less deviation and more damage to improve balance vs Gunships

To Do's For the Update and New Maps
Xbox 360: Start your BFBC game and when you see the prompt to download/Install the Title Update hit accept. After the game starts let it get to the 'Press Start' menu and then quit back to the Dashboard. Once there visit Marketplace and look for the new BFBC download Titled something like "Battlefield: Bad Company Community Choice Pack". After downloading start the game and run a new CQ map from custom Maps and enjoy!

PS3: Start your BFBC game and when you see the prompt to download/Install the Title Update hit accept. After downloading let the game start and run a new CQ map from custom Maps and enjoy!"

"Backed by popular demand, the Community Content Pack is coming your way October 30th for FREE!

Your votes led to the creation of 2 new maps for our upcoming release, Par for the Course and Acta Non Verba.

These were originally single player maps and have been redesigned to deliver intense multiplayer action on a whole new battleground.

The Battlefield team also wanted to take part in selecting the new content and have included maps Ghost Town and Crossing Over.

All four maps will provide hundreds of hours of fresh new gameplay for our multiplayer fans.

But that’s not all, we also are including tons of gameplay enhancements and trophy support for Playstation 3 owners in this latest update!"

"Gibeau says there is a "sequel idea planned" for "Army of Two" and also for "Battlefield: Bad Company." Which is as close to saying there will indeed be an "Army of Two 2" ("Army of Three?" "Army of Two Squared?") and "Bad Company 2" as we'll probably get until the sequels are officially announced."

" The First Strike BETA has been over for a while, and we here at First Strike would like to give you a brief look at the progress that has occured since then as well as a thank you to all who participated over the course of the weekend-long test. We highly appreciate those who turned out to assist us in our effort to make First Strike as good as possible, and the weekend was very productive, and a big success in general. We learned many things during in-game sessions, and from post-testing feedback, that has helped us improve the mod. Some of the fixes you may have even seen during the course of the Beta via our all new First Strike Launcher system, created by yours truly.

So to begin, I'll explain when you can expect to see these maps. Currently, after a lot of internal discussion, it has been decided that patch 1.35 (Coming Soon™) will consist of 2 to 3 new maps. The maps that are being considered for this release are Null Sensor Station (Formerly Strike at Bimmiel), Refinery, and Lok Wastelands. These maps have all been developed either by First Strike community members or, in the case of Lok, team members on leave. This provides us the unique ability to be able to test and refine these maps while our primary development time still goes towards the Battle of Hoth. Hopefully, if all goes well, not long after the 1.35 release we'll be able to get you 1.4 with Hoth and more."

"The first OPK Comic is prestented to you by Peacecamper, who had the idea for the story and Zerkanutscher, who has put Peacecampers dreams into reality.

The story is about a little Puch and a Wolf, who spend much time together, but the Puch is hiding a secret. But read it on your own! How will the story of them end?

How the story is continued will be shown in one of our future updates.
Your OPK-Team "

"Should you happen to live in Japan or simply find yourself in the vicinity of Tokyo these next couple of days then don't miss this opportunity!

From today until Sunday we'll be showing Battlefield Heroes at the Tokyo Game Show.

And not just showing, you can play too, in Japanese!

That's right, we made a special "Battlefield Heroes does Japan" version."

"In their AdSense blog, Google announced their entry into the field of ad supported games. Keep in mind this is really Google ads that you see everywhere (including this site) put into web-based games. This doesn't mean that Google ads are going to start showing up in Battlefield: Bad Company but it certainly does raise some real possibilities that it could show up in the unreleased Battlefield: Heroes game.

Why can it show in one but not the other? Simple, until the Xbox 360 gets a browser, text-based or clickable ads just won't work. On PCs this is of course not the case."

"Hi, Battlegroup42 fans ! Yes, it´s time again for news about our modification because the release of our new version 1.5 is getting closer, and we still have a lot of new content we haven´t shown you yet. Like we already promised you in our last news we will concentrate on the ground forces this time.

Let us visit the British tank barracks first and reveal a whole series of brand new models. Our modeler Nimrod6 presents his skills with four variants of the Crusader tank, showing what still can be achieved with the good old BF1942 engine. His models don´t need to fear a comparison with ones from newer games. Our renders as well as the ingame screenshots give impressive proof of that. The Crusader tank family was coded by Sarge31FR."

"BattlefieldHeroes.net are giving away Beta keys. Tell them you want a key and you might just get one.

BFHeroes-News.de want you to find out something about their knowledgebase. You have until this coming Sunday to participate.

BfHeroes.de will have you answer some easy questions before Saturday and you might win a Beta key.

BFH-France have split their contests. Three questions, three answers, three winners. More news on their site.

Battlefield Podcast ask participants to post a reply in their contest thread to be one of 20 posters randomly chosen to win a beta key."

"PBF: Will there be additional ways to take down enemy helicopters or will more AA be added to current maps?

Gordon: Helicopters are very susceptible to 50 cal fire from the stationary 50 cal, the tank’s secondary gunner position and from the support kit. If it gets in close enough it’s pretty devastating. On the maps that have the helicopters in them, Par for the Course and Crossing Over, there is defiantly an ample amount of AA as well.

PBF: Many Playstation 3 players are still having VoIP issues. What is the current status on a fix for this?

Gordon: We are working really hard at finding the exact reason for it. It has been quite elusive. The basic structure is virtually identical with the Xbox 360, so we are looking into what is causing it. It is turning out to be quite difficult, but it is a high priority and it is being taken very seriously. We also partnered up with Sony to pull from their experience and expertise on this as well."

"If you have a question about Battlefield Heroes you might get an answer here!

Here is how it will work:
At an announced time(very soon, NOT today) we will publish a news item asking you for your feedback.
In this news item anyone will be able to ask a question about Battlefield Heroes.

After a certain amount of comments we will turn commenting off, then we will read what you have provided and see if we find any questions we can answer already.

We will do this once in the morning and once in the evening, so people in virtually every time zone will have the chance to participate.

If we find enough questions, we will select a couple and make them into a poll.

Soon after closing the comments and gathering questions we will create that poll and leave it open for 24 hours, giving everyone the chance to cast a vote for their favourite question.

And after all is said and done we will add the “winning” question to our FAQs."

"We thought you would like to know that we have been planning to upgrade our site for some time now.

As our more regular visitors may have noticed previously, whenever we start a contest to give out Beta keys the site gets somewhat unresponsive. Soon this will be no more.

Whereas the look and feel of the site will not drastically change, the backend (all the bits you don’t see, just "feel" when things slow down) should drastically improve.

Apart from making all of us, here at DICE, very happy this will also have an additional benefit for everyone:
Once we have finished this upgrade we will once again be able to run regular Battlefield Heroes Beta key contests

Please keep in mind:
Responding to this news will not get you a Beta key but, responding in an intelligent and coherent manner will earn you the respect of every reader."

"Good day Soldiers,

With the upcoming release of “Acta Non Verba” and “Par for the Course” multiplayer maps selected by the community, we’d also like to share information on what the additional maps selected by the Battlefield: Bad Company team here at DICE are. Drum roll please…… the winners are “Ghost Town” and “Crossing Over”. These were the additional maps that we felt would be the best for Conquest mode and coincidentally the 3rd and 4th most popular maps from community voting - great minds think alike! The team is really looking forward to sharing these new Conquest Maps with you for free this October.

More news about the update; we have not stopped looking into the VoIP issue on PS3. We are working hard here at DICE and with our partners at Sony to help improve and fix the PS3 VoIP issue. We have also seen some questions about our awards, especially the Savior Trophy and Staying Dry Wild Card. The Savior Trophy has been adjusted to be more achievable and the Staying Dry Wild Card has had its description corrected in the menu. After the update, it will read “Get 50 road kills with the boat in multiplayer”. A news announcement with a full list of fixes and changes that have been included in this update will be released in the near future.

Award Tip: To achieve the Top Squad Wild Card you must earn the Best Squad Trophy in all Gold Rush maps and 10 Squad points. Squad points can be earned by either repairing friendlies’ vehicles (10 points), healing a friendly (10 points), or being a savior of a friendly soldier (15 points)."

"Customization items include everything you can obtain from the game store: weapons, clothes and emotes. You will also be able to obtain other items, including: abilities, missions, and convenience items.

You use weapons and abilities to take out your opponents while wearing cool outfits and mocking them with your taunting emotes. Missions let you show off really how good you are. You will be able to choose from a wide range of missions and you can take up to 3 missions into the game with you to try to complete them and gain the reward, which can be Valor Points (see below), customization items or Hero Points (see below). Convenience items are there to make your life as a Hero easier as well as to offer certain optional services. This can be everything from gaining experience faster to changing the name of your Hero."

"Free weapon unlocks if you didn’t find-all-five
We are now giving away the 3 weapons originally awarded to those who pre-ordered, signed up to our newsletter and played the demo. The weapons are free, all you need to do is go to the unlock page in the menu and input the following codes:

Recon Kit - QBU88 - your3mynextt4rget
Special Ops Kit - UZI - cov3r1ngthecorn3r
Support Kit - M60 - try4ndrunf0rcov3r

We feel it is time that everybody gets to use these great guns on the battlefield, as it is no longer possible to play the demo or pre-order the game. Of course you are still welcome to sign up to the newsletter here: http://preferences.fun.ea.com/ea/mf_BattlefieldBC.asp

To add to the action, the USAS12 weapon for the Demolition kit awarded for checking out your stats on the website is actually also available by using a code, but we challenge you to figure out how to unlock some of that awesome firepower on your own.

The weapon awarded to our now over 200,000 Battlefield Veterans will remain exclusive. We want to ensure our Vets are rewarded for their loyalty with this final weapon unlock.

It easy to join the Veteran’s program, sign up here: http://veteran.battlefield.com/

Leaderboards expanded
We've now pushed the button and expanded the Score leaderboard to show the top 500,000 both in-game and on this website. So check out your new rank, and hope you're not 500,001 like half the team here at DICE =)"

"Priority fixes
Server Lag –Our #1 priority. The game servers were upgraded last week to improve performance.
Dog Tag Lag – The next update will include a fix for this issue
PS3 VOiP – We are still looking into this issue. Sony’s 2.42 Update should have addressed the majority of issues. Please let us know if you are still experiencing muted sound.

Additions enhancing the game
PS3 Trophy support - Yes you read correctly, PS3 Trophy support will be coming to Bad Company

Game Tweaks –
Removed one hit kills for knife against Friendlies
Bullets and knives go through bushes
After sprinting, you will be able to fire your weapon quicker
Helicopter can take damage from multiple trees
Additional minor tweaks to improve gameplay

Unlocking 3 weapons for all
And last, but not least we are excited to share that very soon we will make the Pre-order weapon, Newsletter sign-up weapon and Demo weapon available to everyone playing Battlefield: Bad Company for free."

" Q: Any additional content coming for Battlefield: Bad Company?
A: We have some new content coming late October. This time we are asked our players to vote for their favorite map from single player to be turned into a multiplayer map. See the results at: badcompany.ea.com/castyourvote/"

"Starting today we open up the possibility to vote to determine which two single player levels will be turned into unique maps for the multiplayer Conquest mode.

Starting today we open up the possibility to vote to determine which two single player levels will be turned into unique maps for the multiplayer Conquest mode. This vote gives players the chance to revisit popular locations from the single player campaign, such as the golf course in Par For the Course, now in an intense multiplayer match. The two maps with the most votes by Tuesday, September 2nd will win. In addition, the Bad Company team at DICE will also choose an additional two maps for the Conquest mode. That makes FOUR new maps available to download for free this fall."

"What does a good Conquest map look like in your opinion?

A good Conquest map caters to the type of map you want to make. Is it Infantry focused, make it in a tight quarters with lots of objects to hide around and Flags that are closer with little to no vehicles. Is it more Vehicle focused, make it in a more open area with less objects to obstruct your vehicle movements. On top of that a Conquest map must be open for multiple strategies. The map should evolve and allow for new strategies as players become accustomed to the map. If the map is too streamlined it will quickly become boring as every session played becomes a re-run of the previous session."

"Battlefield has been one of the biggest gaming franchises of the decade with numerous sequels and incarnations of the game, most recently on the consoles with Bad Company. The latest version for PC Gamers is Battlefield Heroes which is a new take on the game franchise which brings it into the world of web gaming and also simplifies the gameplay significantly to try and cater to casual gamers. The game is currently still in beta testing phase but we were able to get hold of a key and we decided to test the game to see how exactly it performs."

"GC `08 is now over; we had a great time and definitely have some fond memories.

Hopefully everyone who visited enjoyed it and had time to try out Battlefield Heroes.

Not only was the community feedback very good, it was also great to have the opportunity to meet some of you personally.

In addition to articles, galleries and videos from the EA-CT.de team (without whom we couldn’t have pulled this off. A huge thanks to them and all the folks over at EA Germany!), you will find some pictures in our Community Heroes section."

"You may have seen that there was an announcement that the game was delayed - John Riccitiello mentioned that in the recent earnings call. What's interesting is that we never announced a date, we talked about the game being released in the summer of this year and that's still the case. Actually, we're in the closed beta already, so the game is already out and you can't delay a game that's already been released and already been played by people.

It's an interesting difference between a packaged goods product, like our previous Battlefield games, in that there is no real kind of big splash release date where suddenly it's available - it kind of builds up over time. We're in that closed beta phase at the moment and we're going to be adding, as I mentioned earlier, a significant number of users within the closed beta phase itself. The game will kind of sneak out and before you know it, it will be a fairly big...game even though we're in the closed beta and we're not 'released'."

"Ben Cousins, executive producer for the "Battlefield" franchise, says the interest in the title has been overwhelming. A cartoony take on what has traditionally been a gritty shooter, "Heroes" focuses solely on the multiplayer matches that have made the franchise so popular. When the studio announced a contest for invites to the game, the site received some 8,000 posts in two days that ultimately crashed the "Heroes" site server. Currently, the "Heroes" site has 170,000 registered users and a quarter million page views a day.

As a free game, "Heroes" will tap into banner advertising and sales of virtual goods, such as helmets, parrots and guns, for its revenue. EA declined to share its financial expectations for the game, but Cousins says that as long as 5% of players are spending money (which in other titles works out to $10 to $15 a month per player), it'll keep the service going. Read The Rest Here... "

"GS: This microtransactions model hasn't taken root yet in the West. What do you look at in terms of successful predecessors for the microtransactions model in the US? Yohoho Puzzle Pirates? Acclaim's games?

BC: MapleStory is doing really well, and Puzzle Pirates is also doing well. I've been going to a microtransactions roundtable at each Game Developers Conference over the last few years, and there used to be maybe a few guys operating small businesses, small-scale role-playing games and that kind of thing. When I went this year, it was clear there were a large number of [successful developers].

I think it's interesting Heroes is the first microtransactions-based game from a major publisher. So we appear to be breaking the ice and doing something cutting-edge, but there's a good precedent in the West for reasonable success for a smaller-scale business. There's an audience there and a demand for this sort of game, and we think we can bust it open with Heroes with a higher profile and the higher-quality game we're offering."

"A brand new multiplayer mode is here, and it's free!

Content includes the traditional Battlefield multiplayer game mode, Conquest. Conquest focuses on the capture and control of flags; once a team captures a control point, its members can re-spawn in the area. When a team loses control of all their flags or control points, they cannot re-spawn.

Maintaining control over the flags on the battlefield is a key to victory and the ability to re-spawn troops close to the battlefront can make all the difference for that last offensive push. Four existing maps have been redesigned along with all new lighting and weather effects, to give players a great battlefield on which to play Conquest. Upon entering one of these maps, the U.S. ARMY will face off against either the Russian or Middle Eastern Coalition forces and the battle for control of the territory will begin.

Don't have a copy of BF:Bad Ccompany yet? Better go out and get one now!

See you on the Battlefield! "

""Solve the riddle, save the world!"

Well, you won't be saving the world, per se, but you could win a Beta key.

Head on over here, solve the riddle and maybe you'll be playing the Battlefield Heroes Beta in no time.

Good luck!

Update - 2 minutes later:
FIFTY people just won a Beta key. We'll do another contest again soon.

Congratulations to the winners!"