{"id":13894,"date":"2011-09-08T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"igame-player-of-the-month-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/13894-igame-player-of-the-month-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"iGame Player of the Month (August 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iGame regular Machaven has been chosen by the community as the player of the month for August 2011, and he will be receiving a prize yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Every month over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/forumdisplay.php\/38-iGame-Online-forums\" target=\"_self\" title=\"iGame forum\">iGame forum<\/a> the community leaders will run a competition in which members decide who is worthy of recognition for their amazing gaming feats.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17160-Player-of-the-Month-Award-September-2011\" target=\"_self\" title=\"September 2011 iGame Player of the Month nominations\">September 2011 iGame Player of the Month nominations<\/a> are now running and anyone can sign up and nominate one of their gaming comrades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iGame Player of the Month August 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Online Nickname: Machaven<\/p>\n<p>Age: 29<\/p>\n<p>Profession: Operations and Systems Manager<\/p>\n<p>Species: Male Humanoid<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/machaven_igame_player_of_the_moth_august_2011_988415004.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which gaming systems do you currently own, play games on?: &#8220;Most to least: PC, iPhone 4, Xbox 360.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which games do you currently play online?: &#8220;I mainly play COD 4 and occasionally play Black Ops, Counter Strike Source, Team fortress 2 and Minecraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which game do you think you are best at?: &#8220;I&#8217;m best at Call of Duty 4 as i spend most of my time playing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greatest Game of All Time?: &#8220;Fallout series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why?: &#8220;I have played it since fallout 1 and i love the open world dynamics of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Worst Game of All Time?: &#8220;Duke Nukem Forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why?: &#8220;It did not live up to my expectations and was very boring to play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What is your single biggest achievement in gaming to date?: &#8220;Since I started gaming online in 2001, I have been to WCG events, 1000 man LAN, several rAge events and plenty of LANs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I still have a certificate for our team (7th Army) coming in 3rd place in the Mayhem offline leauge for Counter Strike 1.3! Yes offline; we used to drive to Mayhem once a month to participate in the leauge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though I have never been in a winning team for any major events like WCG or rAge, I still consider it an achievent to have been part of the gaming scene and participating in major events and LANs for such a long time while balancing it with my career and family life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fast Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PS3 or Xbox 360: Xbox 360<\/p>\n<p>Homefront or Crysis: Homefront<\/p>\n<p>Killzone or Halo: Killzone<\/p>\n<p>Laptop of Desktop: Desktop<\/p>\n<p>AMD or Nvidia: Nvidia<\/p>\n<p>Beer or wine (Hint; this is a trick question): Beer<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17416-iGame-Player-of-the-Month-August-2011\" target=\"_self\" title=\"iGame Player of the Month (August 2011)\"><strong>iGame Player of the Month (August 2011)<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machaven claimed the August 2011 player of the month accolade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}