{"id":119566,"date":"2017-08-03T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T10:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119566"},"modified":"2017-08-03T12:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T10:40:49","slug":"overwatch-summer-games-update-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/119566-overwatch-summer-games-update-coming-soon","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch Summer Games update coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has launched the Summer Games 2017 event.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan said that new skins, sprays, and other cosmetic items will be available, and players will be able to unlock the cosmetic items from the previous Summer Games event.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has also changed how the event skins work, allowing players to purchase new Summer Games skins with in-game currency.<\/p>\n<p>The Summer Games update will also bring back the Lucioball game mode, with a few gameplay tweaks and new arenas.<\/p>\n<p>The update will roll out on 8 August for players on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YPs__eUvtvU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/216540-twitch-announces-two-year-streaming-partnership-with-blizzard.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitch announces two-year streaming partnership with Blizzard<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has launched the Summer Games 2017 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":112291,"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":[10096,24888],"class_list":["post-119566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-overwatch","tag-summer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119566","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119570,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119566\/revisions\/119570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}