{"id":11129,"date":"2011-04-06T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"xbla-indie-pack-not-coming-to-sa-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/11129-xbla-indie-pack-not-coming-to-sa-retail","title":{"rendered":"XBLA indie pack not coming to SA retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US retail market will be receving on 19 April a disc bundle of three top Xbox LIVE Arcade indie games. These are Limbo, Trials HD, and &lsquo;Splosion Man. The bundle will be selling over the pond for a low price of US$29.99 (&plusmn;R200).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for SA gamers, this great bundle won&rsquo;t be coming to SA retail. According to Stefan van de Giessen, Comztek channel manager for Microsoft Xbox SA, &ldquo;At present it will not be brought into South Africa.&rdquo; Elaboration on the reasons why were not provided.<\/p>\n<p>Both LIMBO and Trials HD are available on the South African Xbox LIVE service via download, but the fiery &lsquo;Splosion Man is not.<\/p>\n<p>This is another blow to the lacklustre local Arcade games line-up and for gamers who would have likely enjoyed such a well-priced bundle at the retail level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/6856-Limbo.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Limbo review\">Limbo review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/4356-Trials.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Trials HD review\">Trials HD review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A particularly awesome XBLA indie games pack won\u2019t be hitting SA retail shelves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}