{"id":12175,"date":"2011-06-06T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mass-effect-3-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12175-mass-effect-3-release-date-announced","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 release date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking in the opening minutes of EA&#8217;s E3 2011 press conference, Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson said, refering to the game, that &#8220;The war for humanity begins March 6, 2012.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This announcement led into a demonstration of the game itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re giving our fans the opportunity to see how their choices have led up to the game&#8217;s final chapter&#8221; said Hudson. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier gameplay video for Mass Effect 3 during Microsoft&#8217;s press conference, the game was demoed being played with the Xbox 360 Kinect. While there is no sign of any motion control, Mass Effect 3 will make use of Kinect&#8217;s voice functionality, in particular, to control the flow of the player&#8217;s interactions with NPCs via voice activated conversation choices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"340\" height=\"213\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lBjoi5BiKoc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lBjoi5BiKoc?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14397-Mass-Effect-3-coming-6-March-2012?p=450013#post450013\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Mass Effect 3<\/a> in the forums<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA&#039;s sci-fi RPG to drop 6 March 2012<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175","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=12175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}