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We've found the one man who thought Need for Speed: The Run isn't rubbish. James checks out the PlayStation 3 version of the EA racer.

Electronic Arts has announced that the Legends and Speedhunters DLC packages - already available on consoles - will be released for the PC version of Shift 2 Unleashed on June 30th.

The publisher says that unlike the console versions the content will be released free of charge and will be available for download at Origin.com.

One hopes that this doesn't mean the content is for Origin users only and that those playing a boxed retail or Steam version can join the fun.

The Legends content is particularly brilliant as it features old versions of tracks such as Monza and Hockenheim along with classic older cars.

Electronic Arts has announced that the final piece of downloadable content for Mass Effect 2 will be released on March 29th.

Mass Effect: Arrival will see Shepard and his crew up against the Reapers and will included three new achievements for X360/PC and trophies for PS3. The content marks the return of Admiral Hackett played by sci-veteran actor Lance Henriksen.

"All year, we have been extremely honored and humbled by the reception we have received for Mass Effect 2 from players around the world, including our post release DLC," said Casey Hudson, Executive Producer, Mass Effect series. "Mass Effect: Arrival is an exciting extension to Mass Effect 2 and will show players just how close the Reapers are to returning and completing their deadly harvest."

The DLC will cost 560 Microsoft Points on X360, 560 BioWare Points for PC and £5.49 on PS3.

Dragon Age veteran Allan Walsh plays the highly-anticipated sequel.

But is Dragon Age 2 as good as BioWare's original?

Electronic Arts has announced that a demo for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters will be released on PSN and Xbox Live on March 8th.

The demo will feature the famous 18th hole at the Agusta National course.

All the details after the break.

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.

Excuse the language, but what in Jebus' name is going on here? Yes you can now download Mass Effect 2 for PlayStation 3 via PSN but it will cost you €60 in the Eurozone and £48 here in the UK.

Are EA/Sony barking mad? You can buy the game for less than a tenner for Xbox 360.

And even if you're mad enough to stump up nearly fifty quid for the game you're going to need 24GB free hard drive space, half for the download, half for the install. Given the awful speed of PSN downloads (ever rented a HD movie from there?) it would be quicker to buy the game from Amazon and wait for the postie to deliver it.

It must be the end times. That'll be why I saw toothless old hags fighting each other for reduced-to-clear green meat in Tesco this morning.

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.

Well this is completely bonkers. Electronic Arts has cancelled NBA Elite 11.

According to EA COO John Schappert development of future NBA Elite releases will be handled to EA Tiburon. EA Canada had been developing this year's game.