{"id":37991,"date":"2012-05-18T10:35:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T08:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37991"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:41:34","slug":"psn-will-allow-users-to-pre-load-upcoming-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37991-psn-will-allow-users-to-pre-load-upcoming-games","title":{"rendered":"PSN will allow users to pre-load upcoming games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sony\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\">Sony<\/a> have assisted in the preparation process for a future-releases by adding a new feature which will allow <a title=\"Playstation Network (PSN)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19910-Playstation-Network-(PSN)\">PSN<\/a> users to pre-load soon-to-be-released games.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature adds the option to use a pre-load function to download games early, with PSN unlocking the game on the launch day.<\/p>\n<p>The function will mean that players don&#8217;t have to wait for PSN games to download when they&#8217;re released, and can rather get ready for a gaming session prior to the game dropping on Sony&#8217;s Playstation Network, by adding all the files to their hard-drive in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The first game to utilise the function will be <a title=\"Sorcery accused of racism \" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37695-sorcery-trailer-accused-of-racism-sony-responds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sorcery<\/a>, Sony&#8217;s new fantasy action game which is built around Move support.<\/p>\n<p>The service is similar to that of PC&#8217;s <a title=\"Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19930-Steam\">Steam<\/a> function, which allows <a title=\"PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a> gamers to pre-load games before they are released.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/348161\/psn-gets-new-pre-load-option-for-upcoming-games\/\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37481-original-deus-ex-confirmed-for-psn.html\">Original Deus Ex confirmed for PSN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36439-sonys-datura-due-for-may-9-release.html\">Sony&#8217;s Datura due for May 9 release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34093-how-sony-plans-to-protect-your-psn-account.html\">How Sony plans to protect your PSN account<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony adding new feature to prepare gamers for downloadable releases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":26195,"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":[31,4382,1387,4381,4380,131,315,819],"class_list":["post-37991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-downloadable-titles","tag-playstation-network","tag-pre-load-games","tag-pre-load-psn","tag-psn","tag-sorcery","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991","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=37991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37998,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37991\/revisions\/37998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}