{"id":41493,"date":"2012-07-18T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=41493"},"modified":"2012-07-18T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:28:55","slug":"origin-getting-major-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/41493-origin-getting-major-overhaul","title":{"rendered":"Origin getting major overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving a lot of feedback from PC gamers, EA have announced that their Origin service will be getting a large update within the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>This update 9.0 &#8220;landmark&#8221; revision will include a number of interface additions. Firstly, gamers&#8217; friends lists will now be free-floating, allowing users to move the window wherever they like, along with the navigation menu being swapped out for a pull-down menu.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of game libraries, the size of game icons will be enhanced, allowing players to change the size of their game images to their heart&#8217;s desire.<\/p>\n<p>An in-game clock has also been added to the update &#8211; apparently a highly-requested feature.<\/p>\n<p>Origin 9.0 will be available shortly, although users can try it out today by logging into their accounts and opting in to test out the new version.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ea.com\/news\/whats-coming-in-origin-90\" target=\"_blank\">EA.com<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41476-battlefield-4-official-beta-access-through-moh-warfighter-pre-order.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Battlefield 4 official, beta access through MoH: Warfighter pre-order<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EA: \u201cOrigin will be a better version of Steam\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40143-ea-origin-will-be-a-better-version-of-steam.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EA: \u201cOrigin will be a better version of Steam\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"EA: \u201cOrigin\u2019s first year a huge success\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39831-ea-origins-first-year-a-huge-success.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>EA: \u201cOrigin\u2019s first year a huge success\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Three more publishers join EA\u2019s Origin platform\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/34203-three-more-publishers-join-eas-origin-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Three more publishers join EA\u2019s Origin platform<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"EA offers free Origin distribution for Kickstarter-funded titles\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38098-ea-offers-free-origin-distribution-for-kickstarter-funded-titles.html\" target=\"_blank\">EA offers free Origin distribution for Kickstarter-funded titles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA&#8217;s digital distribution service getting a facelift <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":31999,"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":[31,2731,1833,175,2121,5396,1851,5745,5746],"class_list":["post-41493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-digital-distribution","tag-digital-download","tag-ea","tag-ea-origin","tag-eletronic-arts","tag-origin","tag-origin-9-0","tag-origin-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493","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=41493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41509,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41493\/revisions\/41509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}