{"id":11530,"date":"2011-05-03T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gears-of-war-3-beta-now-free-for-all-conditions-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/11530-gears-of-war-3-beta-now-free-for-all-conditions-apply","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War 3 beta \u2013 now free-for all (conditions apply)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything&rsquo;s better with somebody else, and the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta is no exception. What could possibly be better than blowing some Locust&rsquo;s head off with the new sawed-off shotgun at point blank range, and hearing your significant other declare the lounge sofa your new, um, camping spot for the next week?<\/p>\n<p>Hold up, though. It&rsquo;s not quite as simple as all that. In order to earn yourself a &ldquo;friend token&rdquo;, you&rsquo;ll have to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Buy Gears of War from Games on Demand, any of the Gears DLC, or any Gears Avatar stuff<br \/>&#8211; Play 20+ hours of the Gears of War 3 beta <br \/>&#8211; Buy a 12-month Xbox LIVE Gold subscription<br \/>&#8211; Play 100 or more hours of any Gears of War title, to date (including single- and multiplayer)<br \/>If this applies to you (now, or at any point in the very near future), you can expect a shiny beta code to turn up in your email inbox on 8 May. Get moving, there&rsquo;s a war on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your friends in on the fun fun fun fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}