{"id":121739,"date":"2017-10-30T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121739"},"modified":"2017-10-30T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:14:39","slug":"best-games-you-can-play-this-week-boots-and-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121739-best-games-you-can-play-this-week-boots-and-bashing","title":{"rendered":"Best games you can play this week &#8211; Boots and bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks a release of one of the biggest games of the year, along with a host of smaller but interesting titles to get your hands on.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Call of Duty: World War II<\/h3>\n<p><strong>3 November (Xbox One, PS4, PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Call of Duty leaves\u00a0behind the space battles, jet packs, and futuristic weaponry, in favour of a WWII shooter reminiscent of the franchise&#8217;s roots.<\/p>\n<p>Far more focus has been placed on the gritty, &#8220;boots on the ground&#8221; single-player campaign (which also likenesses and voice talents of Transformers&#8217; Josh Duhamel and Jeffrey Pierce of\u00a0Justified and\u00a0The Last of Us). But of course, multiplayer is always the real meat of any COD game, and WWII promises to bring the biggest and most comprehensive online component to date.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Official Call of Duty\u00ae: WWII - Story Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9ITIaKzG3A?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\">Cartoon Network Battle Crashers<\/h3>\n<p><strong>31 October (Switch); also on Xbox One, PS4, 3DS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a lack of some classic old-school side-scrolling beat-\u2019em-ups in recent times, but thankfully\u00a0Battle Crashers\u00a0gave us some of that nostalgia when the game arrived on Xbox One, PS4, and 3DS last year.<\/p>\n<p>Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers now lands on the Switch, and if you don&#8217;t know about it, it&#8217;s\u00a0a light-hearted action game that allows players to take on the game solo or via co-op, and\u00a0utilise\u00a0some of Cartoon Network\u2019s most beloved\u00a0character\u2019s unique attacks and special moves to take on bad guys, bosses and overcome environmental hazards.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V7ZF8RdwjKc<\/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;\">Call of Duty: World War II<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> Xbox One<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Call of Duty: World War II<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> PS4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Call of Duty: World War II<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> 3DS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kirby Battle Royale<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Switch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical 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":117195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,11681,4],"tags":[23,24819,23166,4552,3768,1157],"class_list":["post-121739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-call-of-duty","tag-call-of-duty-world-war-2","tag-cartoon-network-battle-crashers","tag-game-releases","tag-kirby","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121739","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=121739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121741,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121739\/revisions\/121741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}