{"id":29413,"date":"2011-12-11T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29413"},"modified":"2011-12-12T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:01:55","slug":"batman-arkham-city-a-winner-at-spike-vga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29413-batman-arkham-city-a-winner-at-spike-vga","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Arkham City a winner at Spike VGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The superhero sequel from developer Rocksteady won best action-adventure, adapted and <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a> game at the beginning of Saturday&#8217;s ninth annual <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20183-Spike-Video-Game-Awards-(VGA)\">Spike Video Game Awards<\/a>, which honors outstanding achievements within the gaming industry over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Portal 2,&#8221; the mind-bending puzzler from <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11901-Valve\">Valve<\/a>, led this year&#8217;s batch of nominees with 12 nods, ahead of fellow game of the year nominees &#8220;Arkham City,&#8221; which is up for 10 awards, and <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/12249-Naughty-Dog\">Naughty Dog<\/a>&#8216;s globe-trotting adventure &#8220;Uncharted 3: Drake&#8217;s Deception,&#8221; which has nine nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Other titles up for game of the year include <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11877-Bethesda-Game-Studios\">Bethesda Softworks<\/a>&#8216; role-playing epic &#8220;The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim&#8221; and the latest entry in Nintendo&#8217;s &#8220;Zelda&#8221; franchise, &#8220;The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Source: Sapa-AP<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batman: Arkham City swept up three trophies at the Spike Video Game Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":27705,"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],"tags":[83,1556],"class_list":["post-29413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-batman-arkham-city","tag-spike-vga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29413","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29414,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29413\/revisions\/29414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}