{"id":14198,"date":"2011-09-22T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"telkom-do-gaming-confirms-battlefield-3-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14198-telkom-do-gaming-confirms-battlefield-3-servers","title":{"rendered":"Telkom Do Gaming confirms Battlefield 3 servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom SAIX Gaming Services (SGS) will be launching Battlefield 3 beta servers before the rAge 2011 expo kicks off.<\/p>\n<p>The Battlefield 3 beta will go live on 27 September, two days ahead of the public open beta launch on 29 September. Telkom <a href=\"http:\/\/gaming.do.co.za\/competition\/battlefield_3_beta_key_give_away\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Do Gaming has 90 beta keys to give away\">Do Gaming has 90 beta keys to give away<\/a>, granting entry into the early access period.<\/p>\n<p>Server details will be posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/games.saix.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SGS website\">SGS website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/14154-Battlefield-open-beta-goes-global-soon.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"details about the Battlefield 3 open beta\">details about the Battlefield 3 open beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who pre-order Battlefield 3 via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.origin.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"EA&rsquo;s Origin\">EA&rsquo;s Origin<\/a> service will get also get early access to the beta if they do so before 25 September.<\/p>\n<p>Gamers who don&rsquo;t get the chance to play the beta before the rAge 2011 expo, being held in Johannesburg at the Coca-Cola Dome from 30 September to 2 October, can head to the Telkom stand as well as the EA stand to get some hands-on time with the title.<\/p>\n<p>Over twenty Dell Alienware PC&#8217;s will be powering the game at the Telkom stand, giving plenty of gamers a chance to see what the game is all about with adequate gaming power under the hood.<\/p>\n<p>The beta and preview code at rAge are a precursor to the game&rsquo;s launch on 25 October for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom Do Gaming will have Battlefield 3 servers up and running on SGS when the game launches and will be running short competitions ahead of the 2012 Telkom Do Gaming Online League, where a R50,000 prize pool has already allocated to the DGL 2012 Battlefield 3 Championships.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Telkom Do Gaming confirms Battlefield 3 servers<\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAIX Gaming Services will be ready with Battlefield 3 servers at launch and during beta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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-14198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14198","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=14198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}