{"id":44291,"date":"2012-09-06T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T10:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44291"},"modified":"2012-09-06T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T10:33:45","slug":"starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-beta-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44291-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm-beta-now-live","title":{"rendered":"Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm beta now live"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/em><\/strong>Blizzard has started its beta test for Heart of the Swarm, but keep in mind that you don\u2019t have to be press or pro-gamers to get in on the action.<\/p>\n

To get involved, you have to make your account eligible for participation.<\/p>\n

To be considered for the beta, players should log into their Battle.net account, and select “Beta Profile Settings” under “Account Management.”<\/p>\n

Blizzard also states that players who are active StarCraft II players are more likely to be chosen.<\/p>\n

Additionally, you can also win access to the beta through various StarCraft II fan sites.<\/p>\n

For other specifics on how to get an edge on being chosen for the beta, check out Blizzard’s FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: Battle.net<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Starcraft II to get global play, multiplayer replays, unranked matchmaking, more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

StarCraft II NAG Gaming League announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

No BlizzCon in 2012, Blizzard too busy making games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get involved in Blizzard\u2019s testing phases for the upcoming expansion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":44296,"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":[31,665,6642,2219,4155,6641],"class_list":["post-44291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-heart-of-the-swarm-beta","tag-megarom","tag-starcraft-2","tag-starcraft-2-heart-of-the-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44291","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=44291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44300,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44291\/revisions\/44300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}