In Battlefield: Bad Company 2, B company fights their way through snowy mountaintops, dense jungles and dusty villages.

This trailer shows off a minute and a half of gameplay from the upcoming console shooter, Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

This is the long-awaited version 1.50 patch for Battlefield 2.  In addition to making all content from both expansions free-to-play, it includes a number of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks.

Download the patch here.

Battlefield 2 Patch v1.5 Notes
FEATURES:

- Additional support for Windows Vista.
- Added Highway Tampa as a required map.
- Added a new map called Operation Blue Pearl.
- Added Euro Force and Armored Fury as free to play content for all Battlefield 2 players.
- Added Widescreen support
- Allowed BF2.exe to use more than 2Gb RAM
- Added support for the Novint Falcon controller (http://www.novint.com).
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Check out this trailer from GamesCom 2009 featuring Battlefield Bad Company 2’s squad stories.

This trailer features over a minute and a half of gameplay from Battlefield Heroes, the upcoming free-to-play browser-based cartoon shooter from DICE.

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Battlefield 1943 is coming exclusively in digital format to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace July 8th and the PlayStation Network July 9th. PC gamers will just have to wait until September to get in on the action.

Battlefield 1943 features Frostbite’s next generation destruction technology which packs full Vehicle Warfare FPS multiplayer for up to 24 people into a 560MB download. I can never argue with getting more for less. Read more about the Frostbite engine and the worldwide community challenge to unlock the Coral Sea map after the break.

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I know that there are several fans of the Battlefield series that wondered if there would ever be a proper PC sequel Battlefield 2. After all, DICE has been concentrating on console development of late, with the release of Battlefield: Bad Company last year, and the imminent release of Battlefield 1943 on PlayStation Network and XBox Live, not to mention the targeted release later this year of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Well, it’s time for a big sigh of relief. According to G4, development of Battlefield 3 has been officially confirmed.

It seems that John Pleasants, Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts, had the following to say in a presentation at the William Blair Growth Stock Conference, confirming that he’s seen Battlefield 3,

“I’ve had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE in Sweden and was highly impressed by the way the team is working on that product. Of course, that’s not [coming out] in the fiscal year, but that is a product that is looking very good.”

So, no worries, PC shooter fans. The penultimate military shooter is indeed headed back to your platform of choice. It looks like it won’t arrive until later in 2010, but there is light on the horizon at last. Here’s hoping that it hews closer to the line of Battlefield: Vietnam, my personal favorite of all the Battlefield titles.

I’ve been a fan of the Battlefield series since BF1942 launched way back in 2002. I have to admit to being at least moderately excited about the upcoming release of Battlefield 1943.

Sure, it’s just a downloadable game for consoles, but BF: Bad Company was a blast, and BF1943 is based on the same Frostbite engine. Sure, it’s just a remake of some classic maps for BF 1942, but they were great maps!

Anyway, on the back of this month’s gamesTM magazine (a German games publication) you can find an ad for Battlefield 1943. In that ad, it lists the release date for the game as June 25 on Playstation Network and XBox Live.

Here’s hoping that’s entirely accurate. You can find that ad after the break.

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While the news of Battlefield 1943’s June launch date came and went today EA is discussing their initial plans to expand the game after launch using a Community Challenge. The worldwide player community will be working together to unlock the reward and when everyone playing the game amasses 43 Million kills then a new version of the classic Battlefield 1942 map: “Coral Sea” will become available to everyone who owns the game.

Adding a bonus map as a challenge point is a nice promotional tool for EA, since the initial game will only feature 3 maps – Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and Wake Island – for its $15 asking price. This updated, console oriented approach to revitalizing the classic online game series might just catch on.

Battlefield 1943 is designed to support 24-player combats in a much more limited scope than the original PC title but features some upgraded graphics, destructible environments, and the vehicle-centric gameplay elements the series originally made popular. Unlike the former PC entry, 1943 is centered only on the US Marine vs. Imperial Navy campaigns – as the settings would indicate since the Germans never landed at Iwo Jima and the US Army is not well known for amphibious assaults.

Battlefield 1943 will be available in June on PSN and Xbox Live, and in September the delayed PC version will appear. Lets hope this experiment convinced EA and DICE to give us a complete update to the classic multiplayer games. Despite being fatigued by WWII shooters I still have fond memories of LAN party battles featuring 45 players in El Alamein.

It seems EA/DICE are still committed towards *cough* improving *cough* this almost four year old game.

Now that proper(?) “widescreen support” has been added, I guess it’s time to dust off my BF2 disc and reinstall, eh?

Spidey senses tell me the game is still Vert-, and “widescreen support” equals the command line trick we’ve been using all along.

You can nab the hefty 1.3 GB patch directly following the link(s) below. Detailed release notes regarding the patch found after the break.

Battlefield 2 Patch 1.50 Beta 2 @ Fileplay [1.3 GB]

And keep checking below on our beloved hosted server for “Beta 2″ to show up (soon, young padawan… soon):

Battlefield 2 Patch 1.50 Beta 2 @ FileFront [1.3 GB]

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