{"id":37340,"date":"2012-05-08T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37340"},"modified":"2012-05-09T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T10:31:46","slug":"battlefield-3-tallys-up-6-3-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37340-battlefield-3-tallys-up-6-3-million-users","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 tallys up 6.3 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"

Battlefield 3 has become a colossal entity in the FPS<\/a> genre, as DICE’s<\/a> modern shooter has racked up 6.3 million active users.<\/p>\n

The millions that are still causing havoc and blowing things up have helped Battlefield 3 along to a successful year in the shooting scene.<\/p>\n

Battlefield 3 is “establishing itself as one of EA’s premier game services and in the process successfully took share in the growing First-Person-Shooter market,” said EA.<\/p>\n

EA’s John Riccitiello<\/a> also promised that the Battlefield franchise will be getting some exciting new developments as the new fiscal year progresses.<\/p>\n

Source: EA Investor release<\/a>, CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n

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EA’s FPS keeps the numbers rolling in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":33749,"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":[31,49,4143,175,813,2033,4144],"class_list":["post-37340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-battlefield-3","tag-bf3","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-john-riccitiello","tag-online-bf3-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37340","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=37340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37379,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37340\/revisions\/37379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}