As you probably noticed, we have experienced an outage across EA servers today, this was caused by a routing issue outside of EA's control but it has been solved and things are back up and running again.

Tomorrow at 8:00 GMT/9:00 CET and 12:00 (midnight) PST the EA servers will be brought down for maintenance. There is no current time for when the servers will return so keep an eye on our Twitter for more up to date information as we get it: http://twitter.com/OfficialBFBC2



On a more positive note, we have released the R6 server to server providers today which should stop the PB INIT FAILURE messages that have been causing problems recently, as well as releasing new server versions, we are still investigating and fixing connectivity and stability problems that are being reported in the forums http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/b...-company-2-pc/.

Get right to the best action with the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Battle for PAX Tournament. Squad up with three of your closest buddies and dominate the all new Squad Deathmatch multiplayer mode as four teams of 4 duke it out in the fully destructible environments online. The top four teams of the online tournament will be invited to Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston, Massachusetts for a chance to win in the $10,000 finals! Register now before it's too late.

While at PAX East, not only will you have the chance to compete in the $10,000 finals on Sunday the 28th, but you will also get your chance to compete in another tournament featuring Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Saturday; the world’s first 3D tournament. This event will feature its own set of exciting prizes, brought to you by the folks at NVIDIA, Alienware and Big Foot Networks. Details on how to sign up for this tournament will be made available soon.

After optimizations and restarts yesterday, we had been stable across all platforms. Unfortunately, we encountered another outage at approximately 9:30 AM PST today.

- 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 actively engaged in diagnosis and remediation. We are adding additional services to alleviate load. Despite having a major infrastructure in place, the peak traffic this weekend has been huge, 400% higher than any other Battlefield's peak simultaneous users. The teams will continue to monitor the services closely. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and will provide further updates on the latest developments as they are relevant.

After last nights EA server outage on PS3 and PC, EA have found the issue and put a fix in place and brought the servers back online. This means that both PS3 and PC players can return back to playing Bad Company 2.

We are aware of a number of remaining disconnect issues on PC and we have released the “R5” server to hosts yesterday to address some of the disconnects. We are continuing to work on the remaining disconnect issues to have a solution as fast as possible as well as looking into reports of other issues raised on the forums for consoles: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/b...-company-2-ng/ and PC: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/b...-company-2-pc/

Battlefield Bad Company 2 has managed to prove so popular that yesterday the concurrent users in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 surpassed that in Battlefield 2 which has been going strong for almost 5 years.

DICE, Electronic Arts, Nvidia, and MyInternetServices.com are proud to present the Battle for PAX! This unique single elimination online qualifying tournament presents gamers with the exciting opportunity to compete in the first official tournament for the highly anticipated PC release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Hundreds of teams will be battling for the final four positions, and those lucky four who make it will receive up to $2,500 per team in travel reimbursement and free 3-day passes to PAX in order to compete live in Boston Massachusetts. Once there, the four talented teams will carry over their one through four seeding as established in this online qualifier, as they go on to battle for $17,500 in cash prizing at the PAX East BYOC Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Tournament.

As if that weren't enough, the live tournament at PAX East will also be the first ever all 3D tournament, using high tech Nvidia hardware to enhance the competitor's gaming experience. The first place team at the PAX East BYOC Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Tournament will receive $10,000, with second place earning $5,000, and third place coming in with $2,500. Finally, we'll also be distributing random prizing and sponsor swag at the conclusion of the online event, so even if you're not on the most talented team, you still have a chance to win. Good luck to all competitors, and may the best teams win!