Long awaited and beloved feature for Battlefield junkies is finally up and soon-to-be-running.

Fear no more: all your statistics are now viewable via PC. Following this link will take you to the “My Soldier” page of Bad Company 2. Look at stats, pictures, and see how well you are doing in the Bad Company 2 universe.

Electronic Arts' free online shooter, Battlefield Heroes is adding a little something into the mix for fans of the game.  Whether the developers have become fans of Twiight: New Moon, the Underworld films, or both is unknown but the eternal battle between Vampires and Werewolves continues online.

Three maps in the web-based multiplayer game have been re-worked to include day and spooky night cycles.  During the day, you'll battle as you normally would.  But at night, the freaks come out as the recently deceased Nationals turn into Vampires and the recently deceased Royals into Werewolves.  While the game is free to play, players will have to purchase all new outfits and items in order to take advantage of the new game theme.

This special event lasts a month so check out the trailer below.

BETA Details:

How to Download: Check back to the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Beta Page closer to beta launch date for download instructions.

How To Get Access: Reserve Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the most sure fire way, but we are still working with Retailers & e-Tailers that wish to participate (it's up to them). If you're eager to ensure you get in the two confirmed distributors to Pre-Order are the EA Store and at GameStop.com.  We'll have another Blog at a later date with an update on the retailers & e-Tailers that have teamed up with us as well as alternate channels to obtain a Closed Beta Key.

Misc. Details

Steam Beta:  Yes there was a leaked image of a Package file we propped on Steam.  People with illegal accounts can see games in this environment, but this is not a Beta in the term of Public Test Beta, but a real development Beta installer client for the Steam version of the full game.  We are however working with Steam to have the Public PC Beta available on Steam, but can't confirm this quite yet so cross your fingers Steam users. :-)

Anti Cheat:  We're going with PunkBuster supporting the same options BF2 and BF2142 had to run unranked without PunkBuster.

Mod Tools: There will not be mod tools for BFBC2.  However a majority of the the games logic is controlled by the server and there will be Serverside control options for the dedicated servers.

Public Server Files: We will not distribute these publicly.  There are many factors for why we have decided this with the biggest factor being security & integrity of our game & Dedicated Servers.

Link to EA blog: blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2010/01/07/bfbc2-pc-beta-update-fr-229-n-dice.aspx##

Battlefield Heroes is the first Play 4 Free game from EA. Create, customize and level up your own war unique hero. Then take them into battle against other players of your skill level. Use your special abilities to destroy the enemy, or support your friends.

Get a first look into the Battlefield Heroes Closed Beta through this limited access "Sneak Peek" for Subscribers Only! This event is a first come first served, limited access event. Keys will go fast so sign up now!

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MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS:
* Operating System: Windows XP or Windows Vista
* CPU: 1.0 GHz
* RAM: 512 Mb (1Gb on Windows Vista)
* Video Card: 64Mb DirectX compliant video card with at least pixel shader 2.0 support
* Hard Drive space: 1Gb of space is required to install the game
* Internet connection: 256kbit Cable/DSL connection