EA and DICE have announced official release dates for the companies’ upcoming Vietnam expansion pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and hot dang if they’re not cutting it close!

December 18th is when you can expect the substantial new set of content to become available for the PC version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ( on Steam and the EA Store), and then December 21st is when Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers can get a hold of it.

The content will cost 1200 MS Points on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, and £10/$15 everywhere else.

You can find out all about Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Vietnam via El33tonline’s previous coverage of the pack.

Before that though, DICE is scheduled to release VIP Map Pack 7 for Bad Company 2 - tomorrow, December 1st, in fact, is when this new map pack will become available, so look out for that!

To cope with all of this new content, Bad Company 2 was recently updated on PS3, while new updates are expected for both PC and Xbox 360 over the course of today and tomorrow.

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