{"id":4497,"date":"2009-09-23T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"first-need-for-speed-shift-patch-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/4497-first-need-for-speed-shift-patch-available","title":{"rendered":"First Need for Speed: SHIFT patch available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA today made the first patch for recently release Need for Speed SHIFT available to PC gamers.<\/p>\n<p>This will add a few minor tweaks to the game including LAN support which, according to EA, &ldquo;enhances the multiplayer experience&rdquo;. It also adds &ldquo;mouse support&rdquo;, which allows the player &#8220;full menu navigation through the game using your PC mouse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The game, which was released internationally last week, is part of a three game announcement that will include Need for Speed: Nitro and Need for Speed: Online. It competes with the likes of Forza and Grand Turismo in that it functions on a similar tier based structured racing platform, supposedly to offer a more realistic driving platform than previous Need for Speed efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It currently holds a score of 83 out of 100 on gaming website aggregator Metacritic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=2793\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Need for Speed: Shift<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC users get early update for newly released racer<\/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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497","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=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}