{"id":12179,"date":"2011-06-06T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-3-multiplayer-beta-coming-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12179-battlefield-3-multiplayer-beta-coming-september","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 multiplayer beta coming September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst mind blowing gameplay footage of Battlefield 3 shown during EA&#8217;s E3 2011 press conference, the publisher announced that an open beta would be taking place in September. That&#8217;s just enough time for them to post-beta polish the game up for its 25 October release date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EA also revealed that the game would feature a built it social networking tool, allowing players to connect with friends, pointing out that it will be &#8220;absolutely 100% free&#8221;, taking an obvious dig at Modern Warfare 3&#8217;s Elite service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the game, DICE&#8217;s Kal Magnus Troedson called it &nbsp;&#8220;the game we always wanted to make, and will be the best Battlefield experience ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14403-Battlefield-3-open-beta-announced?p=450061#post450061\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the Battlefield 3 beta<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open beta confirmed <\/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-12179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179","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=12179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}