{"id":25839,"date":"2011-11-15T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=25839"},"modified":"2011-11-15T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T12:03:07","slug":"minecraft-goes-gold-is-a-real-game-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/25839-minecraft-goes-gold-is-a-real-game-now","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft goes gold, is a real game now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 100% official \u2013 <a title=\"Game Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20004-Minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a> is a real game now, and just in time for its Friday launch date. It\u2019s all coming together so nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Markus \u201cNotch\u201d Persson shared the happy news over <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19976-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> with a simple, classic \u201cSo, yes, Minecraft has gone gold. :D\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Of course \u201cgoing gold\u201d is really just a formality for a game that\u2019s been in an open beta for two years already. In fact, the current version of the game is apparently so close to the final version that Notch suggests reviewers consider it the review version.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere might be VERY minor tweaks,\u201d Notch added.<\/p>\n<p>So that basically means it\u2019s time for those reviewers to dismantle their gigantic, lava-belching genital monuments and play the game properly, whatever that really means. A moment of silence for the gigantic, lava-belching genital monuments, please.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be released alongside the first ever, sold-out MineCon in Las Vegas, happening all weekend.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: Twitter, <a title=\"Notch Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/notch\/status\/136078211284090881\">1<\/a>, <a title=\"Notch Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/notch\/status\/135767177805574144\">2<\/a>, <a title=\"Notch Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/notch\/status\/136204546203586560\">3<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/minecon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25843\" title=\"minecon\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/minecon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/minecon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/minecon-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/minecon-250x132.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINECRAFT MINECRAFT MINECRAFT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":25841,"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":[2,3],"tags":[339,335,21,337,333],"class_list":["post-25839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-full-release","tag-gold","tag-headline","tag-minecon","tag-minecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25839","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25849,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25839\/revisions\/25849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}