{"id":40590,"date":"2012-06-30T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40590"},"modified":"2012-07-02T10:51:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:51:05","slug":"heart-of-the-swarm-and-mists-of-pandaria-playable-at-gamescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40590-heart-of-the-swarm-and-mists-of-pandaria-playable-at-gamescom","title":{"rendered":"Heart of the Swarm and Mists of Pandaria playable at Gamescom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has a lot to show off at this year\u2019s Gamescom, where players will be allowed to play both the upcoming WoW expansion Mists of Pandaria as well as upcoming Starcraft 2 game Heart of the Swarm.<\/p>\n<p>The Mists of Pandaria demo will let players have a look around the starting zone and test out the new character class, the monk. In addition to this Blizzard will be premiering the game\u2019s opening cinematic \u2013 and if there\u2019s one thing Blizzard can do, its cinematics.<\/p>\n<p>Starcraft fans will be able to get their hands on all three race\u2019s new units in what Blizzard describes as a \u201cmultiplayer demo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll be plenty of other stuff going on too, with everything from developer signing sessions to a live orchestra playing music from Blizzard\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019ll also be a lot of e-sports entertainment, including Starcraft II pros going head to head and top World of Warcraft guilds doing live dungeon raids.<\/p>\n<p>Man, if only it wasn\u2019t in Germany; there\u2019s even a dance competition!<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/356030\/blizzard-announces-gamescom-line-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Browder: \u201cHeart of the Swarm is 99% done\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39823-browder-heart-of-the-swarm-is-99-done.html\" target=\"_blank\">Browder: \u201cHeart of the Swarm is 99% done\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Starcraft II to get global play, multiplayer replays, unranked matchmaking, more\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/37321-starcraft-ii-to-get-global-play-multiplayer-replays-unranked-matchmaking-more.html\" target=\"_blank\">Starcraft II to get global play, multiplayer replays, unranked matchmaking, more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32869-starcraft-ii-nag-gaming-league-announced.html\">StarCraft II NAG Gaming League announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"No BlizzCon in 2012, Blizzard too busy making games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31466-no-blizzcon-in-2012-blizzard-too-busy-making-games.html\" target=\"_blank\">No BlizzCon in 2012, Blizzard too busy making games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Blizzard already developing fifth WoW expansion\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34748-blizzard-already-developing-fifth-wow-expansion.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blizzard already developing fifth WoW expansion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The Old Republic hurt WoW subscription figures: Blizzard\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34501-the-old-republic-hurt-wow-subscription-figures-blizzard.html\">The Old Republic hurt WoW subscription figures: Blizzard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard lays out plans for German expo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":30634,"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],"tags":[31,665,4596,4154,1033,4155,635],"class_list":["post-40590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-gamescom","tag-heart-of-the-swarm","tag-mists-of-pandaria","tag-starcraft-2","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40590","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}