{"id":121561,"date":"2017-10-23T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121561"},"modified":"2017-10-23T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T08:32:20","slug":"best-games-you-can-play-this-week-blades-and-bullets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121561-best-games-you-can-play-this-week-blades-and-bullets","title":{"rendered":"Best games you can play this week &#8211; Blades and bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This wee is a biggie. Not only do we get a new entry into the hugely-popular Assassin&#8217;s Creed franchise, but also our favourite Nazi-killer\u00a0BJ Blazkowicz returns in a new Wolfenstein sequel. On top of that, there&#8217;s some good news for lovers of the oval-ball game.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Origins<\/h3>\n<p><strong>27 October 2017 (Xbox One, PS4, PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assassin\u2019s Creed: Origins\u00a0arrives this week, and takes players back to the origins of the Assassins Brotherhood (hence the name).<\/p>\n<p>Set in ancient Egypt with a new (and possibly first) assassin protagonist named Bayek, the game features vast open deserts, deadly swamps and period weapons, along with a whole bunch of new features, such as the ability to light arrows on fire and use your eagle companion to tag enemies and scout the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>It looks to be more of what we\u2019ve come to love from the franchise, but with a distinctively different setting that\u2019s been needed in\u00a0AC\u00a0games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins: Birth of the Brotherhood\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yL3w6MdVj5s?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<h3 class=\"my-4\">Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus<\/h3>\n<p><strong>27 October 2017 (Xbox One, PS4, PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The excellent\u00a0Wolfenstein II: The New Order\u00a0was one of the best first-person shooters of 2014, and it\u2019s sequel (finally) arrives this week.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfenstein: The New Colossus\u00a0kicks off with a full scale Nazi occupation of the United States, and of course, it\u2019s up to BJ Blazkowicz to murder them all with a variety of classic and science-fiction weapons and machines.<\/p>\n<p>From what we&#8217;ve seen so far,\u00a0The New Colossus\u00a0is already\u00a0looking incredibly slick and brutal, and we can\u2019t wait to get our hands on some more alternate-timeline Nazi stomping.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Launch Trailer \u2013 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H561RVqNy4s?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<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">More game releases this week<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Origins<br \/>\nWolfenstein II: The New Colossus<br \/>\nRugby 18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Xbox One<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Origins<br \/>\nWolfenstein II: The New Colossus<br \/>\nRugby 18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> PS4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Origins<br \/>\nWolfenstein II: The New Colossus<br \/>\nGT Sport<br \/>\nRugby 18<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/232069-xbox-one-x-south-african-pricing-and-launch-date.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Xbox One X \u2013 South African pricing and launch date<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what you can expect from this week&#8217;s game releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":121066,"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":[145,4552,323,24918,23869,3273],"class_list":["post-121561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-assassins-creed","tag-game-releases","tag-mario","tag-rugby-18","tag-super-mario-odyssey","tag-wolfenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121561","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=121561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121563,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121561\/revisions\/121563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}