(photo: credits)

Are you good at Battlefield: Bad Company 2…? Do you think you have what it takes? I ask this because the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 community tournament just went live – the NVIDIA Battle for PAX Tournament invites you to squad up with 3 buddies and duke it out against 4 other teams in a unique single-elimination Squad Deathmatch. The PC-only tournament will award the top 4 placing teams of the online tournament with an invitation to compete in the finals at Penny Arcade Expo East (PAX), in Boston, for a chance to win in the $10,000 finals!

Check it out at the link below – registration is open to everybody (in the US), and if you don’t have a team in place, you can squad up on the Teams tab. Also below, be sure to check out the random prizes that will be given away to random contest entrants. This includes Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 video cards and TRITTON Universal Gaming Headsets.

Register Link – http://battleforpax.com/register
More Info – http://blog.battlefield.ea.com

Here are the prizes for the Online Tournament:

• * 1st Place – 4th Place:
• Up to $2,500 in travel reimbursement to Boston, MA
• 4x Free 3-day Passes for PAX East and GeForce LAN BYOC Seats
• The #1-#4 seeds in the Nvidia PAX East BF:BC2 tournament

Random Online Prizing:

• 10x Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 Video Cards
• 5x TRITTON Technologies AX 180 Universal Gaming Headsets
• 5x Xfire $20 Gift Cards
• 20x Official Battlefield: Bad Company 2 T-Shirts

Prizing for the Tournament Finals at PAX East:

• 1st Place: $6,000
• 2nd Place: $3,000
• 3rd Place: $1,000

From watching the video above to me it looks like it takes place in Gotham City. But according to IGN the game known as “Blacklight” is a covert military action epic set twenty-five years in the future. The game has a release date of Q2 2010.

(photo: credits)

Well the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 fanatics don’t have to wait too much longer for the downloadable multiplayer maps. Mainly because according to the Mapathy website and fourzerotwo who states that they will hit the Xbox 360 on March 30, 2010.

That’s right ladies and gents… as I mentioned a bit back they were going to be released sometime in the spring well looks like spring is right around the corner! So as soon as I get more information on where the maps will take place or if there are any screenshots I’ll let you know so remember to subscribe to get the latest info delivered to your inbox.

(photo: credits)

With all the traffic going to the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 servers on opening game weekend they’ve encountered some outages. Well needless to say they are hard at work at fixing the problem. Here’s brief overview of the current server status:

• X360 was severely impacted, and the service is being restarted. It should be back online and we are monitoring closely.
• PC had an outage, but the service is offline currently and the service is being restarted. It should be back online and we are monitoring closely. We will then start checking the quality of the customer experience to determine possible next steps.
• PS3 appeared to have a brief outage, but has quickly recovered and the services is functioning properly at this time.

All teams are working on diagnosing and remediating the issue, including adding additional servers to help alleviate the load. The EA team sincerely apologizes for the inconvenience and I’ll continue to provide you with further updates on the latest developments as they are occur. Feel free to check out the EA Battlefield Bad Company 2 blog for more information on the server outages.