{"id":3526,"date":"2009-02-17T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T09:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"watchmen-game-gets-a-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3526-watchmen-game-gets-a-release-date","title":{"rendered":"Watchmen Game Gets a Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&rsquo;t know, Watchmen was a critically acclaimed comic book series written by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins. The 12 part series was originally released over a two year period between 1986 and 1987, and has since been republished in a collected form.<\/p>\n<p>A comment made by Time magazine perhaps captures the excitement that surrounded Watchmen best:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A superlative feat of imagination, combining sci-fi, political satire, knowing evocations of comics past and bold reworkings of current graphic formats into a dysutopian mystery story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The movie is now due for release on March 6. Warner Bros. has announced that they will be releasing Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 1 as a game for PC and Xbox 360 on March 4. The Playstation 3 version will follow a day later on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchmenvideogame.com\/?ct=us\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>, the game will be available through STEAM, Direct to Drive, Playstation Network&nbsp; and Xbox Live, with no sign of a hard copy release.<\/p>\n<p>The game will serve as a prequel to the film, and is based on a 1987 pen and paper RPG that was co-written by Alan Moore himself, so it may actually be a decent movie\/game port for a change.<\/p>\n<p>There is no availability regarding pricing at this point, but demo versions will be available on all platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=328\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Watchmen<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Comic series, to the big screen, Watchmen will also make its way to our favorite interactive entertainment medium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","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=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}