Thanks to early beta testing on the PS3, Electronic Arts has explained that the current testing has been so popular that the PC beta testing will have  to be held off until 2010. Granted, that may only be a month or so away, but PC gamers are wanting their fix of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as soon as humanly possible.

On the EA site, Gordon Van Dyke sets the record straight stating, “I’ll get right to it and say ‘the BFBC2 PC Beta is not cancelled’. Now this all started due to changes made to an earlier blog that removed the PC Beta from the details and the reason for this was the plan changed. With the huge success of the PS3 Beta we decided to drastically increase the PC Beta’s capacity to insure as many people as possible could participate. Unfortunately this meant we had to delay the Beta to very early next year giving us more planning time to make it happen and implement more optimizations.”

PC gamers should be looking forward to getting their hands on the PC beta in early 2010, because the max players per map are increased to 32 from the consoles’ 24, Full DirectX 9, 10 and 11 support, dedicated servers and private guild servers, and EA’s PC Squad Play System. There is a lot to look forward to in 2010 and now EA and DICE have dropped one more post-holiday treat to look for in your stocking (if you’re like me and leave it up until King’s Day).

Theofficial release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is slated for the title to hit shelves on March 2, 2010. Also, for all the worrywarts out there freaking out over the PC beta possibly getting canceled, I quote Dr. Dre, “just chill to til the next episode.”

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