{"id":32241,"date":"2012-02-09T11:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T09:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32241"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T09:06:01","slug":"activision-announces-battleship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32241-activision-announces-battleship","title":{"rendered":"Activision announces Battleship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, there&#8217;s totally a Battleship movie.<\/p>\n<p>As in, a movie adaptation of the old pen &#8216;n&#8217; paper guessing game of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>STARRING LIAM NEESON AS E7, GEORGE CLOONEY AS F3, AND INTRODUCING SOME IRRITATING KID AS A6.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I made up that bit, although fact is maybe even more absurd than fiction &#8211; it&#8217;s somehow been turned into some kind of sci-fi alien invasion flick.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Activision is cashing in the inevitable game of the movie of the game, now in development over at Double Helix, the same studio behind Silent Hill: Homecoming.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a stand-alone story set in the same universe as the movie, so that&#8217;s the one where gigantic ships appear overhead for no obvious reason and presumably start blowing stuff up. Okay, I&#8217;m starting to see how this was reworked into a sci-fi alien invasion flick.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I just looked the movie up on Wikipedia and Liam Neeson really is in it. I loled irlz.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-02-08-battleship-movie-gets-activision-game-tie-in\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game of the movie of the game. Wait, there&#8217;s a Battleship movie?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":32260,"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":[31,587,2315,473],"class_list":["post-32241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-activision","tag-battleship","tag-lol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32241","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=32241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32259,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32241\/revisions\/32259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}