{"id":121889,"date":"2017-11-06T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121889"},"modified":"2017-11-07T16:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:29:27","slug":"best-games-you-can-play-this-week-racing-and-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121889-best-games-you-can-play-this-week-racing-and-rings","title":{"rendered":"Best games you can play this week \u2014 Racing and rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week sees the return of two long-running franchises, along with a port to the Switch which Nintendo gamers should be ecstatic about.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Need for Speed: Payback<\/h3>\n<p><strong>10 November (Xbox One, PS4, PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Need for Speed series has been around the block, covering all sorts of themes in recent years, but the veteran racer is coming back to its roots: breaking the law with high-speeds and gorgeous tuned-up vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The latest game arriving this week, Payback, takes a narrative-inspired spin, throwing you into the shoes of a driver looking for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place in the fictional Fortune Valley, players can purchase new cars or rebuild abandoned derelicts, and can customise their vehicles with parts they either win or buy. They can use those rides to participate in races, missions, and activities in single player or multiplayer SpeedLists.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Need for Speed Payback: Official Story Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CuE9eQJY0BU?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\">Sonic Forces<\/h3>\n<p><strong>7 November (Xbox One, PS4, Switch, PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s favourite anthropomorphic hedgehog returns in the\u00a0latest instalment of the long running franchise, but this time around, the series is shaking things up with custom characters.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, you can design your own hero to race alongside the blue blur. And depending on which base you choose, your custom hero can use different powers to traverse each level.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonic Forces - Story Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tbIO4uO7awg?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>Xbox One<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sonic Forces<br \/>\nNeed for Speed: Payback<br \/>\nSuper Lucky&#8217;s Tale<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PS4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sonic Forces<br \/>\nNeed for Speed: Payback<br \/>\nHorizon: Zero Dawn &#8211; The Frozen Wilds DLC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sonic Forces<br \/>\nNeed for Speed: Payback<br \/>\nSuper Lucky&#8217;s Tale<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Switch<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Doom<br \/>\nSonic Forces<\/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<\/strong><a title=\"Permalink to Logitech\u2019s new keyboard works in VR\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/121849-logitechs-new-keyboard-works-in-vr.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Logitech\u2019s new keyboard works in VR<\/a><\/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":121891,"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":[6,3,11681,4],"tags":[883,14054,25293,149,24653,24960,25341],"class_list":["post-121889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-doom","tag-horizon","tag-horizon-zero-dawn-the-frozen-wilds","tag-need-for-speed","tag-need-for-speed-payback","tag-super-luckys-tale","tag-zero-dawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121889","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=121889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}