{"id":14214,"date":"2011-09-23T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-secures-battlefield-3-timed-exclusive-dlc-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/14214-sony-secures-battlefield-3-timed-exclusive-dlc-deal","title":{"rendered":"Sony secures Battlefield 3 timed exclusive DLC deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a PS3, you&rsquo;ve got two bits of big news on your six.<\/p>\n<p>First up, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2011\/09\/22\/battlefield-3-expansions-to-hit-ps3-first-open-beta-on-psn-929\/?boosony\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"DICE has announced\">DICE has announced<\/a> that they&rsquo;re deploying the public beta for Battlefield 3 on the PSN from 29 September &ndash; 10 October.<\/p>\n<p>Get drafted by going over to the PlayStation Store, looking up &ldquo;Battlefield 3&rdquo;, and selecting the demo download. Starting a war has never been so easy.<\/p>\n<p>If you redeemed one of those Medal of Honor: Limited Edition or Tier 1 Edition Online Passes, you can get yourself into the beta on 27 September. Check your e-mail inbox from an invite from DICE.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Open Beta is your chance to play Battlefield 3 early, try out our free social platform Battlelog, and give your valued feedback directly to those of us at DICE,&rdquo; writes DICE product manager, Tommy Rydling, over on the official PlayStation Blog.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You participating in the Battlefield 3 Open Beta means that you are not only helping us load test the servers, but more importantly, helping us fine-tune the final components of the multiplayer game.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Next up, Sony has managed to secure a timed-exclusivity deal for all Battlefield 3 DLC, bringing that stuff to PS3 gamers a week ahead of everybody else. Oorah!<\/p>\n<p>That starts with the release of the Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand expansion, scheduled to launch &ldquo;later this year&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18032-Sony-secures-Battlefield-3-timed-exclusive-DLC-deal-for-PSN\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Sony secures Battlefield 3 timed exclusive DLC deal\"><strong>Sony secures Battlefield 3 timed exclusive DLC deal<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your guns, Battlefield 3 PSN public beta deploys next week<\/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":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","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=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}