Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Can Probably Be Considered A Success.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a military, multiplayer shooter has sold a ton of copies in Europe and the US. That’s right: EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has mustered sales of over 2.3 million over the last couple of weeks.

Interestingly, aswell as the hard sales figures, EA has provided some more light-hearted facts pertaining to the game’s success, such as 81 billion points racked up in multiplayer games, 6 million video views on YouTube and in the past 24 hours, 2.9 million hours have been spent playing online. Impressive stuff.

We properly digged the game. You can check out our review through here.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Is Totally Going To Get New Content At The End Of The Month.

DICE has announced that anyone who’s redeemed their VIP code for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will receive mode updates for both the Arica Harbour and Laguna Presa maps on March 30th. That’s the same day as the XBOX 360 version of Modern Warfare 2 gets new multiplayer maps. Interesting.

Anyway, if you’ve redeemed your VIP code, you’ll totally get this stuff for free.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Playstation 3 Review.

The variety in Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s campaign make it a worthwhile experience, despite the bummer ending. Ultimately though, you’ll want to buy Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for its outstanding multiplayer.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2's Topped The UK Sales Charts For The Week.

Heavy Rain’s affair with the number one spot of the British gaming charts is over (though it still sits at a respectable fourth place). Indeed, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has taken the top spot this week, with 31 per cent of the sales being accountable to the PS3 SKU.

SEGA got a double hit with Aliens vs Predator and Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing occupying the third and fifth spot; and Ubisoft’s Just Dance is still at number two.

Full list after the jump.

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PushSquare's Playstation Pick Of The Week: Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Worry not guys, the ApocalyPS3 has totally 101% passed, and you might be looking to pick up some games to make up for it. Well, what with the month being March, there’s plenty to choose from, so let’s hop to it.

PushSquare’s Playstation Pick Of The Week: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Just about edging out MLB 10: The Show, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the latest box release in the popular Battlefield franchise. Expect exploding buildings, vehicles and lots of “ooah” chanting.

Also:

MLB 10: The Show, Sony’s hyper-realistic first-party baseball game releases next to 2K’s “never quite as good” MLB 2K10 franchise in the US. The PSP and Playstation 2 get the MLB games too, with the PSP also netting its own version of Dante’s Inferno.

Whadda’re Ya Buyin’?

Uncharted 2. Bioshock 2. Modern Warfare 2. MAG. Is There Too Much Cross-Over?

It seems to me that every video game has multiplayer these days. More or less. And even when it’s debateable whether a game should have multiplayer (Bioshock 2 springs to mind), the resulting component tends to be rather impressive. But that causes its own sub-set of problems, particularly for someone like myself who has to play through multiple games a week. There just isn’t enough time for all this multiplayer.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Looks Like It's Going To Have Some Degree Of Success.

EA has announced that between the Playstation Network and XBOX Live, over 3.5 million people have downloaded and tried out the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo. Which indeed bodes well for the DICE developed title which is set to launch next month.

EA will hope they can replicate a degree of Modern Warfare 2’s success.