{"id":4068,"date":"2009-07-03T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"battlefield-1943-to-hit-consoles-july-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4068-battlefield-1943-to-hit-consoles-july-8","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 1943 to hit consoles July 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICE has announced that the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Battlefield 1943 will become available for download next week, with the Xbox 360 version going live on Wednesday 8 July and the PS3 version becoming available the following day.<\/p>\n<p>The Xbox 360 version will cost 1200MS points and the PS3 version will cost $15 (R120). The game will come in the form of a 560MB (+-R35) download and will be available on Xbox Live and Playstation Network.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the game will feature 3 maps; Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. Dice has announced that a fourth map (Coral Sea) will become available only when Xbox 360 and PS3 players log a combined total of 43million kills.<\/p>\n<p>The PC version however is still scheduled for a September release. Dice has issued a statement claiming that the additional development time for the PC version is necessary to make sure that it is up to scratch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=63076#post63076\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Battlefield 1943<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC version scheduled for September<\/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-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","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=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}