{"id":32380,"date":"2012-02-13T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32380"},"modified":"2012-02-13T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T10:48:19","slug":"mass-effect-3-goes-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32380-mass-effect-3-goes-gold","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 goes gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BioWare has confirmed that Mass Effect 3 is all finished up on time, a whole month ahead of its March launch. The game will now be sent off to the shiny magic disc factory for production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter an awesome effort by our team, I\u2019m proud to announce #MassEffect3 is officially GOLD! Many surprises await you \u2013 this week and beyond,\u201d posted lead game guy Casey Hudson on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Mass Effect 3 demo went live over the weekend for those people smart enough to work out a Facebook minigame.<\/p>\n<p>The demo features both single- and multiplayer gameplay, and drops on Xbox LIVE, PSN, and PC tomorrow to the general public, although the multiplayer component is initially available only to those people who redeemed a Battlefield 3 online pass, and will be opened on 17 February for everybody else. It&#8217;s not actually as confusing as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t have Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions, the demo also includes exclusive, time-limited access to the multiplayer stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The game is out on 9 March.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 demo includes free Xbox LIVE Gold\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31845-mass-effect-3-demo-includes-free-xbox-live-gold.html\">Mass Effect 3 demo includes free Xbox LIVE Gold<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mass Effect 3 demo PC system requirements\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31015-mass-effect-3-demo-pc-system-requirements.html\">Mass Effect 3 demo PC system requirements<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Many surprises&#8221; coming soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31274,"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":[2,3,4],"tags":[31,427,335,423],"class_list":["post-32380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-gold","tag-mass-effect-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380","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=32380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32405,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32380\/revisions\/32405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}