Well it is back, finally! Here is a new episode of the BFCast, this time it is just me and our special guest......

So Valve has released this new game, available on Steam, called Alien Swarm. Its a four player cooperative top down shooter. It features eight characters who fit into four classes, and has quite a variety of weapons and accessories. The game play is really solid, the upper difficulties are challenging but not impossible, and the graphics are spectacular. But, the amazing thing about it is that the game is free. Its the sort of game I'd expect to pay at least $10-$20 for, but Valve's released it for free. As it stands, there is only one level that constitutes seven missions, but based on the user interface, it is likely that more will be coming. Not to mention that Valve has released mod tools for the game. Overall, the game is really good, and I highly recommend it.

 Have you ever wanted to play Battlefield Bad Company 2 with those who made the game? Well if so you are in luck. On Wednesday the 28th of July 18:00 - 22:00 CEST  you will be able to do that.

If there was an opportunity for you to knife the developers of Bad Company 2, you wouldn't resist right? Imagine having DICE dogtags in your collection. At least five of them.

 Well, now is your chance. Go ahead and make it happen. The Game with Dev event is now coming to PC and we are bringing five DICE -players with us. Always wanted to knife Demize99? How about blowing Bazajaytee up with a Carl Gustav? Epic roadkill on zh1nt0?

Other players are Romeo DICE (special guest) and Stormonster.

The time of this event will be Wednesday the 28th of July 18:00 - 22:00 CEST.

 Servers will be announced as soon as the event starts. This is to make sure everyone has a chance to jump on the servers as soon as we start.

In order to see where we are playing, check out our twitter channels:

 www.twitter.com/demize99

www.twitter.com/Bazajaytee

www.twitter.com/zh1nt0

So, take some time off work, leave the children with someone else, say goodbye to your significant other because this Wednesday is going to be awesome.

Our friends over at Combat Testing have started taking beta testers for the Xbox 360 version of Medal of Honor and need your guy's help!

So head on over to https://www.combattesting.com/testers_info.php and fill out the form to get into Combat Testing and start reporting bugs!

Mathew Pruitt just announced that the Medal of Honor Xbox 360 BETA is live!!

The wait is over -- the Medal of Honor Xbox 360 Beta is now live! Go to www.medalofhonor.com/beta to redeem your beta key. Once you redeem your key, you will be given a token which you can then take to Xbox Live Marketplace and use to download this highly anticipated beta. If you have already downloaded the PlayStation 3 or PC beta and have another key that you would like to use to download the Xbox 360 beta, you must create another EA account. Only one key can be redeemed per account. 

We have received great feedback so far from our PlayStation 3 and PC players and with the Xbox 360 version going live, we look forward to hearing that feedback from you as well! While you will not see too many changes reflected in the beta yet, feel confident that the team is hard at work building an awesome gameplay experience for Medal of Honor. Your feedback is crucial to enhancing the experience, so please visit the Medal of Honor forums and tell us what you think. 

Finally, we would like to thank our Xbox 360 fans for sticking with us through the delay – you guys rock! 

Please follow us on Twitter and find us on Facebook for further Medal of Honor updates. 

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 THQ is using an interesting way to advertise Homefront. It is called Pyongyang Express and it serves North Korean BBQ. THQ’s Senior PR Manager Tyrone Miller says the truck “captures the essence of the storyline and pulls our audience into this as if it is really happening.” The truck goes by the slogan “Subsidized good Food for a Better America” and it’s the first part of the history timeline where Kim Jong-il dies, his son takes over North Korea and then North and South Korea unite. Later, unified Korea invades the U.S. Below are some pictures of the truck.

The truck will be on the streets until the game is released next year but Los Angeles-based food trucks can breathe easy. Pyongyang Express will move on to San Francisco and New York City soon.

Treyarch has released the Retail Boxart for Call of Duty:Black Ops.

Gamespot chats with Call of Duty's military adviser about teaching the devs about military techniques and tactics, and get his opinion on the trivialization of warfare and using video games to train soldiers.

EA and DICE have announced that on Wednesday Jun 30th they will roll out a PC patch for Battlefield Bad Company 2.

We are happy to announce the release of the new patch on June 30th.

 All game servers will need to be taken down for updates. The maintenance period starts on Wednesday Jun 30th at 07:00AM (GMT+2). Most of them should be back up by 11:00AM (GMT+2).

During this time window, we will also release the new game client. Check back after 11:00AM (GMT+2), and try out the new game client!

 The complete changelog can be found on:

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/bc2-pc-service-update/1088496-client-r8-server-r12-qa.html