{"id":14882,"date":"2011-10-20T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mass-effect-assault-rifles-are-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14882-mass-effect-assault-rifles-are-real","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect assault rifles are real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only reason anybody signs up with the  Spectres is the cool guns (okay, and the free spaceship), but now you can avoid  ten years of military deployment in the ass-end of Kepler Verge entirely &ndash;  Bioware has added the M-8 Avenger Assault Rifle to its online store.<\/p>\n<p>Well,  technically it&rsquo;s a replica, but there&rsquo;s nothing stopping you from running around  your local shopping mall with it and shouting &ldquo;PEW PEW PEW&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mass_Effect_3_2_332943455.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to  the <a href=\"http:\/\/biowarestore.com\/mass-effect\/mass-effect-accessories\/m8-avenger-assault-rifle-replica\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bioware store\">store entry<\/a>, the $650, 9kg, 86cm polystone replica is &ldquo;most authentic  representation of this weapon available on the market&rdquo;, and will be shipping out  in a very limited quantity of only 500 units sometime in the first quarter of  2012.<\/p>\n<p>The entry also notes that &ldquo;Due to the nature of this item,  international shipments could be confiscated by your Customs Agency and cannot  be refunded&rdquo;, and recommends caution before buying.<\/p>\n<p>So better call up your local  customs office and check what their policy about fake guns is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/mass_effect_assault_rifle_182999670.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19208-BioWare-makes-Mass-Effect-assault-rifles-a-reality\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum link\"><strong>BioWare makes Mass Effect assault rifles a reality<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware adds big, heavy, expensive Mass Effect assault rifle replica to its online store<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"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-14882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}