"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."