"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)."