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Publisher Electronic Arts' recent first person shooter Medal of Honor will get its first free and paid downloadable content on Election Day. EA revealed today that that the PC port will indeed be getting the free "Clean Sweep" DLC on November 2 which will add an new elimination-style gameplay mode, two new maps (Bagram Hangar and Khyber Caves) and redesigned versions of two current maps (Diwagal Camp and Kabul City Ruins).

In addition EA will sell a second DLC pack on that day via the EA Store web site for $9.99. That will add a new Hot Zone gameplay mode where teams will fight for a fixed point on the map with the winner holding the location the longest. Two more all new maps will be added (Hindukush Pass and Korengal Outpost) along with redesigned versions of two more maps (Shahikot Valley and Helmand Valley)

The Medal of Honor Tier 1 interview series continues, and this installment covers one of the most important aspects of any military operation: leadership. Once again, an anonymous Tier 1 operative gives insight into the military world for those of us that haven't served. It's fairly straightforward, with most of the discussion being things we've heard before, albeit in a slightly different way. The most interesting part is the advice given: true leadership comes about when you deal with people who need to be led, rather than those who want to be led.

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There is evidence that the PC port of Battlefield Bad Company 2 has continued to be a solid seller for developer Digital Illusions and publisher Electronic Arts. The modern day themed shooter has stayed on the top 10 best seller lists on the Steam download service since it was first released last March.

Now comes word that PC owners will be getting a big update for the game soon. A post on EA's UK message board from the game's community manager that a big update that will be released "very soon." A few of the changes in the update will include fixing the game's 3D Vision support and bringing hit registration changes over from DICE's most recent game Medal of Honor to Battlefield Bad Company 2. Now if we can only get the developer to finally release Battlefield 1943 ...

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Medal of Honor for the PC has already gotten one patch for the multiplayer portion of the just released first person shooter but the team at Electronic Arts are already prepping a second multiplayer patch for the game. There's no word on when exactly it will be released but the game's official web site already has an extensive change log for that patch.

Among the general bug fixes and changes listed are allowing ribbons and medals to appear on the game's unranked servers. Also, accuracty is affected if a player jumps and shoots at the same time. A player will be less accurate in shooting from the hip after the patch as well. There are also some more changes to the game's weapons.

Medal of Honor has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide in the first five days of the first person shooter's release, according to a new press release from publisher Electronic Arts. The revival of the military shooter series from developers Danger Close and Digital Illusions is the only major game release in the genre besides Call of Duty Black Ops which is due out three weeks from today.

EA also announced that on Election Day (November 2) it will release two new maps and a new elimination-style gameplay mode called Clean Sweep for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions. Big Download contacted EA to find out if the new mode will be released for the PC as well but was told that it's just for the console versions, at least for now.

The revival of Medal of Honor from Electronic Arts had a good first week of sales via PC game downloads. According to Steam's weekly top 10 lists of best selling games for the past week the modern military shooter was number one best selling PC game on the service last week.

Fallout: New Vegas came in at number two this week just a day before it officially launches. Also Civilization V has some staying power; it's named as the number 3 best selling game on the list this week. The full list is below:

1. Medal of Honor - Danger Close/DICE/Electronic Arts
2. Fallout New Vegas - Obsidian Entertainment/Bethesda Softworks
3. Civilization V - Firaxis Games/2K Games
4. Arcania: Gothic 4 - Spellbound/Jowood
5. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
6. Dead Rising 2 - Capcom
7. Tales from Monkey Island Complete Pack - Telltale Games/LucasArts
8. Cities XL 2011 - Focus Home Interactive
9. Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack - Infinity Ward/Activision
10. Borderlands Game of the Year - Gearbox Software/2K Games

Much has been made of the fact that Electronic Arts' new Medal of Honor game is the first game in the first person shooter franchise that takes place in the modern day with US forces fighting in Afghanistan. But as it turns out there's a more direct link between the new game and the previous Medal of Honor game titles that were all set in World War II.

According to USA Today's Game Hunters blog site the character of Sgt. Jim Patterson, which your character meets in the new Medal of Honor game, is supposed to be the grandson of Lt. Jimmy Patterson. Lt. Patterson appeared in the very first Medal of Honor game for the Playstation 1 way back in 1999 and has made appearances in at least two other games in the series since then.

Electronic Arts is wasting no time in releasing its first PC patch for its just launched first person shooter Medal of Honor. The patch, which can be accessed via the game's auto-updater, is just for the multiplayer portion of the game that was developed by Digital Illusions.

The patch notes go over the bug fixes contained in the multiplayer patch including fixing a crash that might happen while switching weapons while in DirectX 9 graphics mode. There are also several fixes made for the game's server browser and improvements for the ping numbers reported in the game have been put in. The game will also tell you if a multiplayer server is full.

So how high are the sales figures for Medal of Honor? According to Electronic Arts in a new press release, sales have been "great" since the first person shooter revival shipped to stores in the US earlier this week. EA claims that "retail response has been overwhelmingly positive" to Medal of Honor in the US, adding that sales are "already exceeding their Day 1 forecasts" at unnamed but "major" retail chain stores.

On Wednesday, EA's stock price went down sharply as investors felt that Medal of Honor's rather average review scores will translate into lower than expected sales for the game. EA still has not reveal specific sales numbers for the game.

While the ultimate sales success of Medal of Honor is still to be determined, Electronic Arts' just released modern military first person shooter revival is still getting some support from gaming PC peripheral maker SteelSeries. The company officially announced today its plans to release a bunch of products with Medal of Honor branding.

These include versions of their Xai gaming mouse, the QcK mousepad, and the 5Hv2 headset. In addition, there will also be Medal of Honor-branded versions of the 6Gv2 mechanical keyboard and the recently introduced Shift customizable keyboard and keyboard set. Aside from the Medal of Honor labeling and the custom keyset for the Shift keyboard, there doesn't appear to be any differences between these new products and the standard SteelSeries versions of the same items.