{"id":110316,"date":"2016-11-10T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T05:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=110316"},"modified":"2016-11-10T07:29:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T05:29:53","slug":"overwatch-will-be-free-to-play-next-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110316-overwatch-will-be-free-to-play-next-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch will be free to play next weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t tried out Blizzard&#8217;s hero-based shooter yet, you can play it for free next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Overwatch will be <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/playoverwatch.com\/en-us\/blog\/20372506\" target=\"_blank\">free to play<\/a><\/strong> from <strong>18-21 November<\/strong> on <strong>Xbox One<\/strong>, <strong>PlayStation 4<\/strong>, and <strong>PC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Players trying out the game will be able to access the full roster of 22 heroes and 13 maps, and will be able to play all game modes except Competitive Play.<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation 4 and Xbox One gamers will have to have an active PS Plus or Xbox Live subscription in order to enjoy the free weekend, while PC gamers will just need to create a Battle.Net account.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to purchase Overwatch afterwards, you will keep all the progress and cosmetic items you earned throughout the free weekend.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The best-selling games on Steam this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110240-the-best-selling-games-on-steam-this-week-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best-selling games on Steam this week<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can try out Blizzard&#8217;s hero-based shooter for free next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":98408,"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":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,665,4197,10096,13381],"class_list":["post-110316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-free","tag-overwatch","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110316","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=110316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110318,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110316\/revisions\/110318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}