Today on PSN: Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam, Dead Space 2 demo, Mass Effect 2 Demo, More

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Welcome To The Jungle – Battlefield Bad Company 2: Vietnam live today

Today’s the day all our amazing PlayStation 3 fans can get their hands on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam. This expansion pack to Battlefield: Bad Company 2 adds new maps, weapons, vehicles and trophies, all set to a two hour soundtrack of period-typical songs, making for one dynamic tour of duty.

Along with all of this great content comes a challenge to you, our PS3 audience, directly from Battlefield developer DICE called The Battle for Hastings. This challenge asks players to complete 69 million support actions within Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, which will unlock the fifth map to be found in the expansion, Operation Hastings.

Get ready to do your part in The Battle for Hastings and download Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the PS3 today! And while you’re at it, take advantage of our newly dropped prices on Onslaught (now $4.99), Shortcut Kit ($14.99), and in case you haven’t picked up the variety of free multiplayer maps through our VIP Pass, you can now pick that up for just $9.99.

Dead Space 2 Demo Infests PSN Today

by Jay Frechette, Community Manager, Visceral Games

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Hello Dead Space fans! Today the single player demo for Dead Space 2 is available on the PlayStation Store! We can’t wait for you guys to play it and wanted to share a couple details of what to expect.

In the Dead Space 2 demo, you will take engineer Isaac Clarke on a terrifying adventure through the Church of Unitology, what appears to be a sanctuary quickly turns dangerous and deadly, during the Necromorph outbreak on the Sprawl. You’ll have access to a variety of new tools, including the new Javelin gun that has an electrifying secondary attack, the updated stasis recharge mechanic and enhanced telekinesis ability. Don’t forget to stop at the Store to change into the advanced suit, equipped with jets that will allow Isaac full 360-degree control in zero-g space! We hope you enjoy it and pick up Dead Space 2 when it’s released on 1/25/2011.

Need for Speed Hot Pursuit: Super Sports Pack hits PSN today

by Spenser Norrish, Community Coordinator, EA

One of the fastest street legal race cars ever manufactured has joined the pursuit! The GUMPERT Apollo S—as well as the equally awesome Porsche 911 GT2 RS and Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport—is now available in Need For Speed Hot Pursuit via the Super Sports Pack. This DLC (available for $6.99) also brings 13 new events and 11 new Trophies into the fray.

Mass Effect 2 PS3 demo arrives today on PSN

by Jarrett Lee

Today marks the first time PlayStation 3 gamers will be able to experience the Mass Effect universe. The demo for Mass Effect 2 has arrived, allowing players to experiment with character creation (which will you chose: play as the iconic John Shepard or your own customized Commander Shepard?), play through the opening levels of the game, and even jump to an area further into the game to try out some of the more intense combat areas and see the kinds of amazing locations that can be visited throughout the story.

Mass Effect 2 for the PS3 is the most advanced Unreal Engine game shipped to date, and makes full use of the PS3’s hardware to bring this BioWare-created universe to life in spectacular detail. In fact, it was built on the same engine being used to build the recently announced Mass Effect 3! Here’s your chance to see it for yourself – and don’t forget that after the holiday the full game arrives on PS3 January 18th – including six hours of bonus missions, and an interactive digital comic designed by BioWare and Dark Horse Comics to introduce new players to the franchise. The digital comic allows players to make key choices about their back-story that will be reflected during their game.

And that’s not all!

Starting today, EA is happy to offer you the following add-ons for some of your favorite games at a lower price!

  • Dante’s Inferno – Trials of St. Lucia, $4.99
  • Burnout Paradise add-on content
  • Big Surf Island, $6.99
  • Legendary Cars Collection, $4.99
  • Cops & Robbers, $4.99
  • Boost Specials Collection, $4.99
  • Party Pack, $4.99
  • Toy Collection, $6.99
  • Toy Car Collection 1, $4.99
  • Toy Car Collection 2, $4.99

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  • What is taking so long?

  • Wow, you guys are so immature, lol XD A 16 year old kid takes some meaningless store update being late better than like…. what, 90% of you?

  • Yeah I love how one of their earlier posts said “later this afternoon”

    I mean I can understand ppl complaining at 2 or 4pm and not having any merit but come on, its 8PM for crying out loud

  • hah @149 :p

  • @149 antihero-Mike, I was seriously about to turn around and go to the Store. LOL! :D

  • @131 SCEA is based in California. They go by PST. so right now it’s 5pm. which 8 out of 10 times is when the PSN gets updated. I just don’t get why people get all riled up about when the PSN store gets updated. it’s not like it’s only up for a few hours then taken away forever. it will be there tomorrow and the next day and the next day and even the day after that. than again goes back to gamers being an impatient and overly self absorbed lot, that expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter.

  • hey im on the psn looking for dead space 2 cuz im a huge fan of it but i dont see the demo anywhere when will it be up for the ppl in the west coast?

  • It’s 7PM here. No update yet. It seems like the better the update, the longer you tease us.

  • Bfbc2 Vietnam up now from in game

  • you kids cry every update, going to shut it any day soon?

  • Sonic Adventure will be 4.99 right?
    I think i’ll be buying that, i never got the chance to play that on DC (mainly because i didn’t had a DC).

  • @149 You better run…… like there is no tomorrow…..

    *Gets out the ATAC2000*

  • The staff at scea had too many drinks for lunch . Now they are too buzzed to punch the right buttons to update . Give them a break , guys , they’re seeing double might take till midnight to get the ball rolling.

  • @152 Yeah I am 16 and this is what I said earlier.

    137 Momo_39648 | December 21st, 2010 at 4:58 pm

    Guys and Gals, don’t make such a big deal out of this one little thing. Besides the Store Updates, PS3 is the bomb.com So come one and lighten up. The workers are most likely working the hardest and fastest they can.

  • Its funny how people defend Sony, when they lie about and sorts of crap. 8:00pm and no update! Today has turned in to tonight. Their always a step behind and seem not to care how the consumer feels. Slowly Sony, your losing a fan. P.S. Thanks for messing up GT5. If they say they can’t, they can’t.

  • I hate the mismanagement of the PSN ‘service’. I hate that Sony has no comprehensible plan for their video-game division. I hate that the best excuse as to why the PSN store does not update at a set time is due to them having to upload all the data to the servers THE AFTERNOON of the update. I hate that Sony’s upper management haven’t fired the employee(s) who thought that uploading data the afternoon that an update occurs would be ‘a good idea’ – or the employees who still perform such consumer unfriendly actions.

    That said: I am genuinely impressed with the PSN+ content this month and tonight’s/tomorrow’s update. I eagerly await adding games, demos, and videos to my PS3’s HDD.

  • ZOMG IT IZ TEH UP!!!!
    nah not really you guys go back to waiting for your demos and your generic shooter DLC.

  • No one cares about your site Momo.

  • JUST GOT BFBC2 VIETNAM IN US!!!! YOU MAY HAVE TO SEARCH IT!!

  • ME2 demo for sure…. BRAH!

  • @167 at least we’re here for a reason, go play in the street.

  • sony whats taking you so long update the people that makw you money

  • @169 Wat site? I didn’t post no site. :?

  • This is Momo. Switched accounts for a sec and forgot. LOL.

  • i think the bomb.com is some of that new teen slang floating around.

  • I thought we were getting Battlefield 1943 bundled with Vietnam today. Does anyone else remember this or have I taken too much acid yet once again?

  • why isn’t it updated yet? they’re so incompetent. just say it’s coming out tomorrow rather than jerking us around.

  • Oh. Lol. Yeah. It’s supposed to be funny. As in the bomb. But just say the bomb.com Lol. Sorry bout that. Ha.

  • no it was just another failed sony promise.

  • I am amazed by incredible amount of ignorance that comes from Sony staff. This guy replied 5 times, to pat on back comments. Instead of answering or letting us know WHEN this update will go up. Incredible.

  • @173 most likely on the PSN store it’s self. if you type it into the search option at the top of the store front, you might be able to find it(haven’t tried that yet). some times, the content is there, it’s just that the store front hasn’t been updated yet

  • I got my Tester Episode 8. I’m good for the day. Ha. :D

  • @all trying to get vietnam, its true, just go to the in-game store, its there!

  • “JUST GOT BFBC2 VIETNAM IN US!!!! YOU MAY HAVE TO SEARCH IT!!”

    No.

  • @180, He’s from EA, not sony, calm down man.

  • Awesome update, a lot of great content being posted. Really looking forward to the Mass Effect 2 and Dead Space 2 demos. Once I get some funds added to my account I will be picking up the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and the Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit DLC. Keep bringing the goods Sony and Electronic Arts.

  • But not on PSN.

  • hells yeah i didn’t know we was getting the mass effect 2 demo today that’s ‘ up, but what’s up with this smackdown vs raw 2011 dlc pack #2 we not getting over here on the ps3 and it’s 8:15 pm where im at in michigan and the dlc was due today, hopefully you guys post it before 12 am cause i gotta pull a third shift tonight.

  • @180, if you look at the guys job title you can see he works for EA not Sony.. so he’s not the one being ignorant here.. just saying

  • TROLL RAGE!!!!!!!!!1111one *Flips over desk*

  • the longer it takes sony to update the more money i spend on the steam sales.

  • Vietnam was my favorite Battlefield once they managed to fix the issues it had when it first came out(M60 having sniper like accuracy while running around).

    So pumped to finally see this released.

  • I actually just bought it, just search for Vietnam

  • What the FUUUU.

    My little cousin literally cried when I checked the Store a while ago for him, and the LBP2 demo still wasn’t up. He’s been waiting all day. Hurry up!

  • Yes, if you search for Vietnam in the Store it is the 3rd one from the top.

  • Vietnam is up!
    go to the BC:2 store, you’ll find it

  • Dead Space 2 demo is LIVE!

  • The goodies are starting to show up in the PSN store via search now.

    Too bad it’ll probably be another hour or two before the main page updates. /-:

  • OMFG AAAGGHHHH take FOREVER for VIETNAM, i cant take it <..<

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