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It's been a busy month, Battlefield Bad Company 2 was released at the start of the month and the game broke all expectations selling 400% more copies than expected on PC and outselling PS3 and Xbox360 put together. This hasn't come without some teething issues and DICE & EA are still working hard to fix all the issues with the game and the huge amounts of traffic. We've been expanding faster than expected so thanks to all of you who have servers with us, we're working around the clock to keep the levels of service you expect and we expect of ourselves. We now have lots more dedicated servers online to meet the demand on both Bad Company 2 as well as other games, if anyone has ideas for new games you'd like us to support please let us know.

We have more Bad Company 2 beta keys to give away, if you need one fill in the form here and we'll email them to you as soon as possible. We only have a limited amount left and they're given on a first come, first serve basis. Don't forget there's still time to pre-order your Bad Company 2 server before release!

***WE ARE NOW OUT OF BETA KEYS***

Our new Bad Company 2 specific servers have arrived and a couple are already up and running. We have also taken the opportunity to get our own IP range, this means we have over 250 IPs available so should keep us going for a while, but don't worry, all existing servers will stay on their current IPs. All the new servers will be ready for the full Bad Company 2 launch on the 5th March. Don't forget that the sooner you pre-order the sooner we'll be able to process your order on launch day, and we don't even charge you until your server is created as long as you use the pre-order code!

We now have 16x 32-slot Bad Company 2 beta servers online, they are all called "GameHosting.co.uk #1" up to #16. They are all running server version R5 which is the latest version. The IP of the servers all start with 109.169.20.2 or 109.169.20.3 if you want to ping them but you'll have to search for the name in the server browser list to find them. #15 and #16 are hardcore so there's no hud or crosshair and it doesn't take a whole clip to kill someone. If anyone has problems with the servers or can't find them please contact us.

We're now a DICE/EA partner for Bad Company 2 which means we'll have ranked servers. You can now pre-order servers from the Bad Company 2 page, make sure you use the promotional code listed on the page so that you only get charged once the servers are released (due to be released on the 5th March). During the beta servers are not available to customers, the only servers during the beta will be public servers provided by authorised hosts. We will provide a list of our beta server IPs when available.

Need a reason to get a Valve game* server? As we have new dedicated servers we've decided to offer all valve games at half price for the first 3 months that you rent with us! Please contact us for the discount codes required for this great offer and make sure you tell everyone you know.

*This offer applies to all the Valve games we currently provide: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source, Condition Zero, Team Fortress 2, Half Life 2: Deathmatch, Garrysmod, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2