{"id":14498,"date":"2011-10-06T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"duke-nukem-forever-hail-to-the-icons-dlc-update-dropping-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14498-duke-nukem-forever-hail-to-the-icons-dlc-update-dropping-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Duke Nukem Forever \u201cHail to the Icons\u201d DLC, update dropping next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gearbox has confirmed that the &ldquo;Hail to the Icons Parody Pack&rdquo; DLC will be launching next week Tuesday. Groovy, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The DLC adds four new maps themed around Call of Duty, Team Fortress 2, and other games that were actually good, to DNF&#8217;s roster, as well as three new multiplayer modes &ndash; Freeze Tag, Hail to the King, and Hot Potato.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s free to all First Access Club members, and 800 MSP on Xbox or $9.99 on PS3 and Steam for everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In addition, updates to the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Duke Nukem Forever will roll out the same day, adding support for the new content along with various optimisations and bug fixes,&rdquo; <a href=\"forums.gearboxsoftware.com\/showthread.php?t=130810\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hail to the Icons\">writes Gearbox community manager Chris Faylor, over on the official forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Among the tweaks are reduced load times on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as well as improved texture streaming on Xbox 360.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Gearbox has put up a special <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukenukemforever.com\/hailtotheicons\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Hail to the Icons mini-site\">Hail to the Icons mini-site<\/a> so you can check out the goods ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/12433-Duke-Nukem-Forever-review.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Duke Nukem Forever review (PC)\">Duke Nukem Forever review (PC)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18586-Duke-Nukem-Forever-&ldquo;Hail-to-the-Icons&rdquo;-DLC-arrives-next-week\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Duke Nukem Forever &ldquo;Hail to the Icons&rdquo; DLC, update dropping next week\"><strong>Duke Nukem Forever &ldquo;Hail to the Icons&rdquo; DLC, update dropping next week<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bubblegum sold separately<\/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-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","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=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}