{"id":103229,"date":"2016-09-02T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103229"},"modified":"2016-09-02T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T05:53:54","slug":"overwatch-will-be-free-to-play-on-console-next-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/103229-overwatch-will-be-free-to-play-on-console-next-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch will be free to play on console next weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/playoverwatch.com\/en-us\/blog\/20243911\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a><\/strong>that Overwatch will be free to play on console from <strong>9-12 September<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners will be able to experience the game without any limitations, with access to all 22 heroes, 13 maps, and all game modes.<\/p>\n<p>Should players decide to buy the game after the free weekend, all their content will be carried over from the free weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Gamers can download the Overwatch Free Weekend client from the PSN or Xbox\u00a0Live Store.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox One gamers will require a Xbox Live subscription, but PlayStation owners will be able to play the game without the need for a PS Plus subscription.<\/p>\n<p>The Free Weekend will kick off at <strong>20:00<\/strong> on 9 September.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome tech and gaming deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/103125-awesome-tech-and-gaming-deals-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome tech and gaming deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This how powerful AMD\u2019s Radeon RX Series graphics cards really are\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/102729-this-how-powerful-amds-radeon-rx-series-graphics-cards-really-are.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This how powerful AMD\u2019s Radeon RX Series graphics cards really are<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How we get local gaming servers in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102911-how-we-get-local-gaming-servers-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How we get local gaming servers in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried Blizzard&#8217;s massive hero shooter yet, now is your chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":93639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681,4],"tags":[31,155,4197,10096,17606,1870,243],"class_list":["post-103229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-console","tag-free","tag-overwatch","tag-play","tag-playstation","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}