{"id":26275,"date":"2011-11-17T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26275"},"modified":"2011-11-18T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T08:50:50","slug":"minecraft-out-on-ios-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26275-minecraft-out-on-ios-today","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft out on iOS today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of its big-boy I\u2019M-A-REAL-GAME-NOW launch on PC tomorrow, <a title=\"Game Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20004-Minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a>: Pocket Edition today launched as a universal app for <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20018-iOS\">iOS<\/a> devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinecraft &#8211; Pocket Edition allows you to build on the go,\u201d says the official App Store blurb. \u201cUse blocks to create masterpieces as you travel, hangout with friends, sit at the park, the possibilities are endless. Move beyond the limits of your computer and play Minecraft everywhere you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it\u2019s a scaled-down version of the PC game\u2019s Classic mode, featuring only 36 block types and local wireless network multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>That means no survival or adventure mode, or at least not for the moment \u2013 the title screen says \u201cv0.12 alpha\u201d in prominent letters so maybe that\u2019s going to change later on.<\/p>\n<p>The same version of the game originally launched as a timed exclusive on <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\">Sony<\/a>\u2019s Xperia Play back in August, and on <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20076-Android-OS\">Android<\/a> devices in October.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tagged at \u00a34.99 \/ $9.99, and I totally bought it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINECRAFT MINECRAFT MINECRAFT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":26279,"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":[531,333,533],"class_list":["post-26275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ios","tag-minecraft","tag-portable-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26275","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=26275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26419,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26275\/revisions\/26419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}