{"id":14578,"date":"2011-10-10T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"it-s-official-mass-effect-3-has-multiplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14578-it-s-official-mass-effect-3-has-multiplayer","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official, Mass Effect 3 has multiplayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been the industry&rsquo;s worst kept secret for months already, but here it is &ndash; Mass Effect 3 will feature online multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation comes by way of Australian mag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpowerplay.com.au\/2011\/10\/pcpp197-on-sale-october-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"PC Powerplay\">PC Powerplay<\/a>, who splashed it all over the cover of their latest issue.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Multiplayer comes to Mass Effect 3,&rdquo; reads the text, in you-know-it&rsquo;s-important-because-it&rsquo;s-in-all-capitals. &ldquo;Fight alongside your friends as the galaxy goes to war!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s right &#8211; Mass Effect 3 is getting multiplayer!&#8221; writes Daniel Hindes on the mag&rsquo;s website. &#8220;We travel to BioWare&#8217;s office in Edmonton for hands-on time with the series&#8217; first foray into online gameplay, and chat with Mass Effect Series Producer and Mass Effect 3 Project Director Casey Hudson about the decision to go multiplayer in the epic battle for the galaxy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Quite what sort of multiplayer it is going to be remains unknown for the moment, although rumour has it that it&rsquo;s some kind of standalone mode, and not a co-op campaign experience.<\/p>\n<p>Which does seem like a bit of a missed opportunity to have your friends play as Ewoks, but whatever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get by with a little help from your friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"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-14578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14578","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}