EA Studio DICE announced today that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is in development. This sequel picks up right where its predecessor left off with 'B' company making their way through a variety of environments, from snowy mountaintops to dense jungles. Using the Frostbite engine, players of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 can blow up darn near everything they want.

Simultaneous with this news, DICE announced that Battlefield 1943 is being created. This game will have a multiplayer slant and release on PlayStation Store, Xbox Live Marketplace and PC. Battlefield 1943 will feature multiplayer action for 24 players over three tropic locations: Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima.

"Bad Company 2 takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante – more vehicles, more destruction and more team play," said Karl Magnus Troedsson, Executive Producer Battlefield Franchise, DICE. "Battlefield 1943 is a new take on a blast from the past classic coming to life with brand new technology that we're eager to get into players hands."

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will release "Winter" 2010 while Battlefield 1943 will come out Summer 2009.