{"id":26661,"date":"2011-11-21T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26661"},"modified":"2011-11-21T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T10:07:39","slug":"counter-strike-global-offensive-beta-kicks-off-30-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26661-counter-strike-global-offensive-beta-kicks-off-30-november","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta kicks off 30 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11901-Valve\">Valve<\/a> has announced via <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19976-Twitter\">twitter<\/a> that the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive closed beta will kick off on 30 November, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement doesn&#8217;t come with any additional details, although various reports indicate that Valve has been given out beta keys throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19936-Reddit\">Reddit<\/a> users claim to have been given keys at events such as PAX, Eurogamer expo and the Intel Extreme Masters in New York. It&#8217;s unclear if more beta keys will be given away before the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Valve is currently developing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in conjunction with <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21053-Hidden-Path-Entertainment\">Hidden Path Entertainment<\/a>, the developer responsible for Counter-Strike: Source.<\/p>\n<p>It is planned for release in early 2012 and will be available on <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a>, <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19888-Playstation-3-%28PS3%29\">PS3<\/a>, <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a> and <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21055-Mac-Gaming\">Mac OS X<\/a> as a download-only title.<\/p>\n<p>Valve has confirmed that the game will support cross-platform multiplayer between PS3, PC and Mac OS players.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/csgo_dev\/status\/137701378389843968\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamernews\/comments\/mi3kc\/valve_cs_go_closed_beta_starting_november_30\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Reddit <\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve&#8217;s long awaited Counter-Strike sequel going into closed beta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":26663,"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":[695,699,697],"class_list":["post-26661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-counter-strike-global-offensive","tag-hidden-path-entertainment","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661","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=26661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26665,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26661\/revisions\/26665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}