{"id":13952,"date":"2011-09-10T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"deus-ex-hits-over-2-million-in-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13952-deus-ex-hits-over-2-million-in-sales","title":{"rendered":"Deus Ex hits over 2 million in sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deus Ex: Human Revolution has been out a little over two weeks, long enough now for us to start looking at numbers, and the numbers are making a lot of people over at Square Enix happy.<\/p>\n<p>Deus Ex is certainly the hot release of the moment, hell, even most of MyGaming <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/13938-What-were-playing-this-weekend---September-2011.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming\">is playing it<\/a> (except James, who prefers to spend his weekend wrecking people&rsquo;s patios).<\/p>\n<p>The game has currently shipped a cool two million units, and that number should only increase over the coming weeks. Unfortunately, due to a certain Gamestop controversy involving some OnLive vouchers, some of those units have been sent back, muddying the statistics a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Still, after only 48 hours of sales in the UK, Deus Ex was the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/13822-Deus-2nd-best-selling-August-game-only-hours.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming\">2nd best-seller<\/a> for the entire month of August, and the sales figures are certainly just what Square Enix was hoping for.<\/p>\n<p>The PC version is currently sitting on an impressive Metacritic score of 89, so the great sales are well deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not bad for two weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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-13952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13952","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}