{"id":113905,"date":"2016-12-21T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113905"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T13:05:11","slug":"the-10-most-googled-videogames-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/113905-the-10-most-googled-videogames-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"The 10 most Googled videogames of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed the videogames that garnered the most searches worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4599919\/these-were-the-most-googled-video-games-of-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">TIME<\/a><\/strong>, Google revealed that the surprising game&#8217;s that topped the list were\u00a0in-browser time-killers\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/slither.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slither.io<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/agar.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Agar.io<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Perhaps more surprisingly is\u00a0the fact that Pokemon GO, which dominated South African Google searches, is nowhere to be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can find the most-googled games this year below.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"ol1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Slither.io<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Agar.io<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Overwatch<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Battlefield 1<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Warcraft<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Dark Souls 3<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Blade and Soul<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Madden 17<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">No Man\u2019s Sky<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Call of Duty Infinite Warfare<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113831-top-south-african-google-searches-in-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">Top South African Google searches in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed the videogames that garnered the most searches worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":102515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1638,23775],"class_list":["post-113905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-google","tag-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113905","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114029,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113905\/revisions\/114029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}