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Fans of the Battlefield series have taken to the EA forums to voice their concerns over the pre-order options available to the Limited Edition version of Battlefield 3.

Paradox Interactive has announced today that former DICE Battlefield producer Gordon Van Dyke has joined the company as a Senior Producer. The publisher says that Van Dyke will be charged with leading the production of the online titles and developing new IP.

“Gordon brings a great amount of experience from working on the Battlefield series and Visceral. We are thrilled to welcome him to Paradox. Over the past couple of years we have been one of the fastest growing companies in the industry and Gordon will play a key role in our continued growth,” said Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox Interactive.

“I’m very excited to join the production team here at Paradox. Some really fortunate events led me to this amazing opportunity to work on projects that really speak to my inner gamer. I know it’s going to be an incredible journey and can’t wait to start right away on inspiring projects like Salem, Gettysburg: Armored Warfare, and Project Postman,” Gordon Van Dyke commented.

After the jump, three newly released screenshots from EA/DICE's Battlefield 3.

Following last week's tinkering with the PlayStation 3 version of Battlefield Bad Company 2, DICE says that the Xbox 360 game will have some attention this week.

There will be some downtime for multiplayer servers tomorrow 7am-2pm UK time.

This is the second phase of the stats database rebuild – this phase is done separately for BFBC2 Xbox 360. We are measuring performance both before and after this operation. We expect that there will be some minor stats issues right after the downtime when all the players are getting back online at the same time; this effect will diminish over the following 2 hours.

23:00 PM PST Monday – 06:00 AM PST
07:00 AM GMT Tuesday – 14:00 GMT AM
08:00 AM CET Tuesday – 15:00 PM CET

Source: Battlefield Official Blog

Battlefield 1943 and BFBC2 Conquest may have been canned - but there's still something to look forward to from DICE with the reveal of Battlefield 3.

DICE says that the PlayStation 3 servers for Battlefield Bad Company 2 will be down at various times tomorrow - February 3rd - tomorrow.

10:00 pm PDT - 3:00 am PDT
0:01 am EST - 5:00 am EST
06:00 GMT - 11:00 GMT
7:00 am CET - 12:00 am CET

This is the second phase of the stats database rebuild – this phase is done separately for BFBC2 PS3. We are measuring performance both before and after this operation. We expect that there will be some minor stats issues right after the downtime when all the players are getting back online at the same time; this effect will diminish over the following 2 hours. The downtimes will be announced on Facebook, Twitter and the official EA UK Forums.

Source: DICE

All versions of Battlefield Bad Company 2 will see some server downtime tomorrow as EA/DICE carry out some maintenance.

The downtimes are as follows:

2:00 am PDT - 5:00 am PDT
5:00 am EST - 8:00 am EST
10:00 GMT - 13:00 GMT
11:00 CET - 14:00 CET

The maintenance aims to "reduce/eliminate stats outages".

DICE has two major patches incoming for Battlefield Bad Company 2 on PC and Xbox 360 to prepare the way for the release of the Vietnam expansion.

The developer warns that users may experience some lag or server outages today and tomorrow as the update is released and servers are updated.

Check out the patch lists for both formats after the jump:

After the jump, your first chance to see the flamethrower in action in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion.

EA has released this new trailer for the Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam expansion.

The video also reveals the pricing of the DLC - 1200 MS points via Xbox Live or $14.99 for PSN/PC.

Check out the video after the jump:

Electronic Arts has released the first gameplay shots from the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion.

All three shots focus on the Phu Bai Valley map and you can see them after the jump:

After the jump, the Tokyo Game Show trailer for Battlefield Bad Company 2's Vietnam multiplayer expansion.

The expansion will be available for PC, PS3 and X360 in Q4 2010.

Hopefully the follow-up will be a shrimp boat sim.