You are awesome. We set the goal 100 million base captures in our December dog tag challenge, and you came in at a whopping 105 million last night. Mission accomplished!

We are now unlocking the “Good Riddance” dog tag for all Battlefield 3 players. You should see it on Battlelog and in the game as you read this. Great job, and have a great gaming Christmas.

The Premium exclusive strategy guide for Aftermath is now available for all Premium members. This 107 page guide from the strategy experts at Prima will teach you everything there is to know about the all-new crossbow, the four new maps, Scavenger mode, and the new vehicles in Aftermath. Download it from the Strategy Guide section here on Battlelog.

Available to download now for all of our Premium members.

The December Premium exclusive competition has come and gone – and we are happy to announce the list of the winners.

As a special Christmas bonus, we decided to up the winners from 5 to 10 per platform. Expect an email from DICE shortly where we give you instructions on how to claim your prize from the DICE Store.

Congratulations to all of our winners, and thanks to everyone for playing! See you again in 2013.

December Premium Competition winners per platform
PC WINNERS
BlueHawk47
Inomooski
D4N_2k
Dr_tabascoTea
Pavkut
0_PhD_0
IRageQuitHard
DieWreckedKill
thurst0n
Xsari

PS3 WINNERS
BADNOISEINYOHEAD
noritchipa
mortalkombtmastr
HooLiGaN_Marmic
mozart-S
four20am
thieves055
DeeMuS-42O
huckleberr-e
Evil-G-Ferret

X360 WINNERS
HiTecRdNek
ELIMINATOR 1177
PerinealAbscess
AreS l Scorpio
StonedYankee
Noble Insolence
TVPH4L420
Kazo64
Okizz666
OneLeggedYankee

NOTE: If you believe you should have been contacted as a winner for an earlier competition, please check your email. We are sending winner notifications to your Origin ID email address.

We have started deployment of  a new server update on all formats. This update has three bug fixes (and nothing else):

Fixes immortality bug
We have identified and eliminated a bug where players in specific cases would be rendered invulnerable.

Fixes broken spawn points in TDM mode on Strike at Karkand
We have identified and eliminated a bug where players would only spawn in a few places on the east side of the map.

Fixes a crash in Gun Master mode
We have identified and eliminated a crash issue in Gun Master mode. To definitively eliminate this crash issue, we have had to implement a change so that players can no longer move in preround in Gun Master mode.

It usually takes ~15 minutes on consoles for these updates to be rolled out. On PC you should see these updates in about 24 hours on a majority of the servers. Note that during the console server update window (for 15 minutes) you will not be able to play multiplayer.

Battlefield 3: Aftermath is available for sale today for all players. You can purchase Aftermath for PC right now in the Battlelog Store.

For Xbox 360, Aftermath will appear throughout the day world-wide. As always, Premium members get all expansion packs with early access at no extra charge.

You can see the all-new crossbow and Scavenger game mode in action in the Aftermath launch trailer below.