{"id":122477,"date":"2017-12-04T15:35:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122477"},"modified":"2017-12-04T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:35:59","slug":"best-games-you-can-play-this-week-hats-and-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/122477-best-games-you-can-play-this-week-hats-and-heroes","title":{"rendered":"Best games you can play this week &#8211; Hats and heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December isn&#8217;t traditionally known for having the biggest releases, as the year slides to an end and gamers are already jam-packed full of great titles to choose from. However, there are a few games hitting shelves before the Christmas rush that you should take note of.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Jak &amp; Daxter Bundle<\/h3>\n<p><strong>6 December 2017 (PS4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After PS2 classic Jak &amp; Daxter: The Precursor Legacy re-released on PS4 with some glorious HD upgrades, Sony, quite suddenly, announced that they&#8217;re bringing the rest of the series to the current-gen too.<\/p>\n<p>Jak II, Jak III, and Jak X: Combat Racing arrive with 1080p visuals and trophy support.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a bit too young to remember, the\u00a0Jak &amp; Daxter\u00a0games were Naughty Dogs&#8217; foray into bigger, bolder 3D platforming worlds after the Crash Bandicoot Playstation era. They&#8217;re great titles that hold up surprisingly well today. You can buy each game separately or together as a bundle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jak and Daxter PS2 Classics - Launch Trailer | PS4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pj-ueiUYEbg?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\">A Hat in Time<\/h3>\n<p><strong>5 December 2017 (PS4 | Xbox One); Also available on PC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The colourful platformer A Hat in Time makes its appearance on Xbox One and PS4 this week after a rather successful launch on PC.<\/p>\n<p>The game is not unlike that of Super Mario Galaxy or Super Lucky&#8217;s Tale, in which you, playing as a young, space-travelling girl, have to use different hat-powers in order to overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, or combat enemies.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun, cute collect-a-thon platformer that fans of the genre should check out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Hat in Time - Announcement Trailer | PS4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qDNz8JDIPck?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\">More game releases this week<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PS4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition<br \/>\nA Hat in Time<br \/>\nSteep: Road to the Olympics<br \/>\nDestiny 2: Curse of Osiris<br \/>\nJak &amp; Daxter bundle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Xbox One<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition<br \/>\nA Hat in Time<br \/>\nSteep: Road to the Olympics<br \/>\nDestiny 2: Curse of Osiris<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Steep: Road to the Olympics<br \/>\nDestiny 2: Curse of Osiris<\/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 title=\"Permalink to 10 games we cannot wait to play in 2018\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/122327-10-games-we-cannot-wait-to-play-in-2018.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">10 games we cannot wait to play in 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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":122483,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25469,24203,25471,15397,1853,11154,22407,25467,10065],"class_list":["post-122477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-a-hat-in-time","tag-destiny-2","tag-horizon-zero-dawn-complete-edition","tag-pc","tag-playstation4","tag-space-hulk-deathwing","tag-steep","tag-steep-road-to-the-olympics","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122477","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=122477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122485,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122477\/revisions\/122485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}