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The latest weekly top 10 sales list on the Steam PC game service is highly affected by the service's currently holiday sales event (which shuts down at 1 pm Eastern time today). The list of games for last week shows Battlefield Bad Company 2 on top yet again after price cuts due to the holiday sales event.

The full top 10 list is as follows

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - DICE/EA
2. Crysis Maximum Edition - Crytek/WA
3. Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition - Rockstar North/Rockstar Games
4. Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum - BioWare/Obsidian Entertainment/Atari
5. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
6. Call of Duty Black Ops - Treyarch/Activision
7. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit - Criterion Games/EA
8. Amnesia The Dark Descent - Frictional Games
9. Call of Duty Moden Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
10. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - DICE/EA

The PC players of the first person shooter Battlefield Bad Company 2 and its just released expansion pack Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam have been busy since the call went out to unlock the fifth map in the expansion pack. Earlier this morning the PC players reached the 69 million team actions goal in the games and as a result unlocked the map, Operation Hastings.

The goal was reached in less than eight days as the race started to unlock Operation Hastings on December 22. At the moment the Xbox 360 and PS3 players of the game are still less than halfway to achieving the same goal as their PC counterparts.

The Steam PC game download service is in the middle of its annual holiday sales event as as such Steam's weekly list of its top 10 best selling PC games is going to be affected. This past week's list shows Battlefield Bad Company 2 at the number one spot this week, boosted most likely by a one day sale that cut its price by 75 percent. For the first time in two months Call of Duty Black Ops is not in the top 10 sales list.

The full top 10 list is below:
1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - DICE/EA
2. Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition - BioWare/EA
3. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - DICE/EA
4. Super Meat Boy - Team Meat
5. Sid Meier's Civilization V - Firaxis Games/2K Games
6. Darksiders - Vigil Games/THQ
7. Mass Effect 2 - BioWare/EA
8. Borderlands Game of the Year - Gearbox Software/2K Games
9. The Witcher - CD Projekt Red/Atari
10. Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe Edition - BioWare/EA

Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam (what a mouthful!) has finally been released for all the owners of Bad Company 2 to enjoy. Set in Vietnam, the locale of DICE's second Battlefield game, it introduces new weapons, vehicles, and maps to the already excellent experience of the core game. This trailer shows off all these additions in a glorious cavalcade of destruction, and those that want more to Bad Company 2 will undoubtedly be glad to get their hands on this expansion. Naturally, this trailer includes one of the Vietnam-associated songs of the era: Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater Revival.

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After several weeks on top of Steam's list of weekly top 10 best selling PC Ggames, Call of Duty Black Ops is finally pushed off the number one spot. In its place is Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam, the just launched expansion pack to EA's hit shooter. In fact Call of Duty Black Ops went back down to the number four spot, with Left 4 Dead 2 and Civilization V taking the second and third spots, respectively (thanks in part to two day sales deals for both games).

The full list is as follows

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - DICE/EA
2. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
3. Civilization V - Firaxis Games
4. Call of Duty Black Ops - Treyarch/Activision
5. Just Cause 2 - Avalanche Studios/Square Enix
6. Metro 2033 - 4A Games/THQ
7. Killing Floor - Tripwire Interactive
8. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - DICE/EA
9. Killing Floor Bundle - Tripwire Interactive
10.Need For Speed Hot Pursuit - Criterion Games/EA

As promised, publisher Electronic Arts is taking an unusual move by releasing a major expansion pack on a Saturday. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam is now available to download from EA's online store. Steam owners of the first person shooter can also purchase and download the expansion which changes the setting of the game from modern times to the Vietnam War with four new maps, new weapons and vehicles and a 1960's soundtrack.

Other PC game download sites, not to mention the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles, won't get access to download the expansion until Monday. That's also the day that the unlock challenge begins as players try to reach 69 million team actions to unlock a fifth map in the expansion.

Gallery: Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam Screenshots

As we enter the period of the year where there is only a trickle of new game releases before 2011 comes around, we are scheduled to get a couple of downloadable expansion packs for the next week. We are also scheduled to get a new Civilization V DLC pack which will add two new civs and a new scenario to the game this week.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - Developer Digital Illusions takes a different approach to the typical expansion pack by changing the setting of the game from the modern day to the 1960s and the Vietnam War. Look for four new maps (with a fifth to be unlocked by players) along with Vietnam War era weapons, vehicles and even music.

It's pretty clear that Call of Duty Black Ops is going to be one of the best selling PC games of the year, at least if the Treyarch developed first person shooter position on Steam's top 10 weekly best selling game list is to be believed. The game remained at the top of the list for the past week and has not relinquished that spot since it was released last month.

In the number two spot is Valve's The Orange Box collection as a remnant of the Thanksgiving sale, followed by Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam, the upcoming expansion pack to the hit EA first person shooter, as it makes its debut in the number three spot. The full top 10 list is as follows:

1. Call of Duty Black Ops - Treyarch/Activision
2. The Orange Box - Valve
3. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - DICE/EA
4. Metro 2022 - 4A Games/THQ
5. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
6. Civilization V - Firaxis Games
7. Super Meat Boy - Team Meat
8. Dirt 2 - Codemasters
9. Aliens Vs Predator - Rebellion/Sega
10. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - DICE/EA

The upcoming expansion pack Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam was supposed to add four new maps to the first person shooter from Digital Illusions. However today word comes from publisher Electronic Arts that the downloadable expansion will now feature five maps. The fifth is called Operation Hastings and is based on a map featured in the PC title Battlefield Vietnam.

However, there's a small catch. The map will be unlocked after players in both the main game and the expansion pack collectively generate 69 million team actions (resupply, revive, heal, spot, and repair). The expansion pack is due for release on December 18 while the road to unlock the five map will start on December 21.

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This manual patch for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 updates the PC release to build R10 (v602574), and is for people who prefer not to use the auto-updater. The patch includes bug fixes and game enhancements, but more notably prepares the game for the VIP Map Pack 7 and the Vietnam DLC expansion. Steam customers should use the Steam auto-patcher. The VIP Map Pack 7 trailer can be seen after the jump along with a list of changes is shown after the jump.

Download Battlefield: Bad Company 2 R10 Update (2.43 GB)
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