{"id":42965,"date":"2012-08-15T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T09:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42965"},"modified":"2012-08-15T13:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:45:49","slug":"battlefield-3-premium-edition-retail-version-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42965-battlefield-3-premium-edition-retail-version-announced","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3 Premium Edition retail version announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does a boxed version of Battlefield 3 plus a Battlefield Premium membership plus all DLC plus a &#8220;Multiplayer Head-Start Kit&#8221; sound to you? Because it&#8217;s something you&#8217;ll be able to get next month. Shock and awe, etc.<\/p>\n<p>DICE has announced (or, perhaps more appropriately, confirmed the inevitable) Battlefield 3 Premium Edition retail set, which includes pretty much everything you&#8217;ve ever wanted, except maybe a radio-controlled velociraptor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince launch, over 15 million people worldwide have enjoyed the thrill of Battlefield, and with the release of Battlefield 3 Premium Edition the community is set to surge once again. Packing a ton of gameplay at an incredible price, there has never been a better time to jump in and see what all the fun is about. We look forward to seeing some new faces on the battlefield,\u201d said Battlefield 3 executive producer Patrick Bach.<\/p>\n<p>The Premium Edition features more than 25 maps, over 70 weapons and vehicles, and &#8220;dozens&#8221; of unlocks and upgrades. With a Battlefield Premium membership, buyers will also get <em>all<\/em> DLC &#8211; already released and upcoming &#8211; bundled into the deal.<\/p>\n<p>No local pricing has been set yet, but the Premium Edition is tagged at \u00a349.99 in the UK, or just \u00a315 more than the Battlefield Premium membership cost on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Read all of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/tag\/gamescom-2012\" target=\"_blank\">MyGaming\u2019s Gamescom 2012 coverage<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6rRTymIXPQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t make up your mind? Check out MyGaming&#8217;s coverage of <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/tag\/battlefield-3\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefield 3<\/a> to help you realise it&#8217;s what you never knew you&#8217;ve always wanted.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42236-battlefield-3-premium-racks-up-1-3-million-users.html\">Battlefield 3 Premium racks up 1.3 million users<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41978-battlefield-3-aftermath-details-revealed.html\">Battlefield 3: Aftermath details revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40864-modern-fps-setting-is-getting-stale-says-battlefield-dev.html\">Modern FPS setting is getting \u201cstale\u201d, says Battlefield dev<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you want in one explosive package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":42970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,49,4387,6241,4143,709,175,813],"class_list":["post-42965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-battlefield-3","tag-battlefield-premium","tag-battlefield-premium-edition","tag-bf3","tag-dice","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42971,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965\/revisions\/42971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}