{"id":113795,"date":"2016-12-13T13:24:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113795"},"modified":"2016-12-13T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:27:13","slug":"yooka-laylee-release-date-emerges-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/113795-yooka-laylee-release-date-emerges-online","title":{"rendered":"Yooka-Laylee release date emerges online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old-school 3D platformers are in dire need in the gaming landscape of today, but Yooka-Laylee is set to change that, and we now have an idea of when the exciting new project from the ex-Rare staffers is arriving.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/store\/p\/yooka-laylee-toybox-pre-order\/bw799fwn0zb7?tduid=(246a035f3796d1e76d50803131d5a109)(256380)(2459594)(TnL5HPStwNw-1lscbx9h7zdMDXS2Q7jHnQ)()\" target=\"_blank\">According\u00a0to a new Xbox store page<\/a><\/strong>, Yooka-Laylee will launch on <strong>11 April 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The game is available for\u00a0pre-order \u00a334.99 (around R600), which gives you access to the game&#8217;s Toybox demo, which was previously available to original Kickstarter backers.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning as a pie-in-the-sky Kickstarter project, <em>Yooka-Laylee<\/em> garnered some serious attention from gamers who managed to provide more than enough funding for the game.<\/p>\n<p>With some quality pedigree in the development team (with some members being a part of the original Banjo-Kazooie<em>\u00a0<\/em>studio, Rare), Yooka-Laylee is looking to be a love-letter to long-time gamers and to remind the new generation of the colourful jumping days of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yooka-Laylee - E3 2016 Trailer | PS4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jrME3Tzbfjo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article\u00a0courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/yooka-laylee-release-date-revealed\/\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Xbox Scorpio vs PS4 Pro \u2013 Developer answers which is better at 4K gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/106965-xbox-scorpio-vs-ps4-pro-developer-answers-which-is-better-at-4k-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Xbox Scorpio vs PS4 Pro \u2013 Developer answers which is better at 4K gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s when you can play one of the most exciting games of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":93967,"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":[3,4],"tags":[2183,31,1966,2664,10674,11732,2436,1157,19053],"class_list":["post-113795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-3d","tag-active","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-platformer","tag-rare","tag-release-date","tag-video-games","tag-yooka-laylee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113795","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113799,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113795\/revisions\/113799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}