{"id":120742,"date":"2017-09-18T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120742"},"modified":"2017-09-18T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:10:01","slug":"playerunknowns-battlegrounds-breaks-player-record-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/120742-playerunknowns-battlegrounds-breaks-player-record-on-steam","title":{"rendered":"PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds breaks player record on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds has broken the Steam record for\u00a0peak player count.<\/p>\n<p>The game achieved a\u00a0peak player count of\u00a01.34 million, beating titles like Dota 2 and Counster-Strike: Global Offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Dota 2\u2019s all-time peak is a close second, at 1.29 million.<\/p>\n<p>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds was\u00a0released in Early Access form in March, and is a shooter title combined with a survival element.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1109971833\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229487\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player.jpg 622w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player-511x400.jpg 511w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player-549x430.jpg 549w\" alt=\"Steam Player\" width=\"622\" height=\"487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/229257-you-can-play-overwatch-for-free-next-weekend.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can play Overwatch for free next weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds has broken the Steam record for\u00a0peak player count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":112553,"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],"tags":[24821,85],"class_list":["post-120742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-playerunknowns-battlegrounds","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120742","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=120742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120744,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120742\/revisions\/120744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}