{"id":36779,"date":"2012-04-27T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36779"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:28:39","slug":"news-you-may-have-missed-23-27-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/36779-news-you-may-have-missed-23-27-april","title":{"rendered":"News you may have missed (23-27 April)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another short week gave us all a bit of incentive to push through the four gruelling weekdays in order to get to the gaming messiah that is a long weekend. The news itself was filled with a lot of things that made us happy and sad, although things looked pretty optimistic on the whole.<\/p>\n

The rise and fall of spandex<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Superheroes were canned, and some over-glorified.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"Batman_big_header\"<\/a><\/p>\n

>> The Avengers game that never was<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Parody Batman: Arkham City GOTY box art is better than the real thing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Harley Quinn\u2019s Revenge revealed for Batman: Arkham City<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Retrospective future<\/strong><\/h3>\n

PES looked back while FIFA looked forward.<\/p>\n

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>> PES 2013 is \u2018returning to its roots\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> FIFA team told to copy PES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shhhh\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>More terribly kept secrets floated around the web.<\/p>\n

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>> New Call of Duty reveal coming in May<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Black Ops 2 box art appears from leaked photo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Rayman Origins 2 appears to be real<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Uncharted and Resistance trilogies heading our way<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Timesplitters 4 planned for PS4 and Xbox 720<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

No Half Life 3, but\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>Valve<\/a> made people very happy.<\/p>\n

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>> Steam is coming to Linux<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> The Valve Handbook for New Employees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Modern Warfare 3 free-to-play this weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Sniper Elite V2 Steam demo targets PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bigger<\/span> More is better<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>Companies are becoming more and more ambitious with their projects<\/p>\n

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>> Borderlands 2 isn\u2019t \u201cwimpy\u201d, with around 60 hours of gameplay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Peter Molyneux\u2019s new studio swamped with over 1000 job applications
\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter campaign uses breath spray, scores $500,000<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Run and hide <\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>PC\u2019s swallowed a big lump knowing they are going to be tested.<\/p>\n

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>> Crysis 3 gameplay trailer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Max Payne 3 PC specs revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Crysis 3 getting DirectX 11 PC support from day one<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen up<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>Developers spoke out; a little out of turn\u2026 gamers weren\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n

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>> Dead Space dev calls Gears of War \u201catrocious\u201d, then apologises for it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Blocking used games on next-gen consoles would be \u201cabsolutely awesome\u201d, says Crytek<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Ex-Infinity Warder Robert Bowling opens Robotoki<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Buy, and you shall receive<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>People were very generous this week<\/p>\n

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>> Angry Birds Space gets new levels for free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Free-to-play Ghost Recon Online is \u201cbusiness design research\u201d for Ubisoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> GOG adds free Machinarium, Witcher, other stuff to Botanicula<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Features & columns <\/strong><\/h3>\n

We also got up close and personal with Sleeping Dogs, had a look at how Prototype 2 fared, pondered what Kratos will shout about in the future, checked out the king of consoles, wondered if you should still even buy<\/em> a console, checked out all the hullabaloo around Gunnar gaming glasses, and compared if a holiday or gaming is more expensive.<\/p>\n

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>> Sleeping Dogs preview – blood on our hands<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Prototype 2 review roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> God of War: What can we expect?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Best-selling consoles of all time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Should you buy a console?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Gunnar gaming glasses i-AMP technology detailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

>> Console gaming vs going on holiday: cost comparison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

How was your week in gaming? Anything cool that you may of heard about or something you’re excited for? Let us know in the comments below and on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Superheroes get pulled, Valve listens to the fans, PC’s get a wake-up call, we ask a lot of questions, and get ready to act surprised. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":36787,"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":[20],"tags":[3865,3864,21,2404,3866],"class_list":["post-36779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-april-gaming-news","tag-gaming-news","tag-headline","tag-news-roundup","tag-valve-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36918,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36779\/revisions\/36918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}