{"id":45433,"date":"2012-10-06T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T08:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45433"},"modified":"2012-10-06T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T08:19:07","slug":"happy-wars-free-to-play-multiplayer-game-to-launch-on-xbla-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45433-happy-wars-free-to-play-multiplayer-game-to-launch-on-xbla-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Happy Wars free-to-play multiplayer game to launch on XBLA next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Wars&#8217; itty-bitty, oh-so-cutey platoons are scrubbing their armour and varnishing their catapults in preparation for tactical deployment next Friday, 12 October, Microsoft has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The game is a 15-vs-15 battle arena title, inspired by Castle Crashers and Battlefield, and also the first (but almost definitely not the last) free-to-play game supported by microtransactions on the Xbox LIVE Arcade.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44203\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/happy-wars.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44203\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44203\" title=\"happy-wars.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/happy-wars.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/happy-wars.jpg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/happy-wars.jpg-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/happy-wars.jpg-250x150.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make love, not war. And by &#8220;love&#8221;, I mean &#8220;happy war&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Happy Wars includes both single- and multiplayers campaign and will be free for all Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers. Additional goodies &#8211; limited to cosmetic enhancements &#8211; will be available to buy, and Microsoft has promised to maintain a steady supply of new stuff post-launch.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing for those people who don&#8217;t pay for Xbox LIVE Gold has not yet been announced, although with a subscription required for all multiplayer on the service anyway, it&#8217;s possible the game will simply not be sold on the Marketplace at all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMxWHu6eNqA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/44197-xbox-360-exclusives-you-can-look-forward-to.html\">Xbox 360 exclusives you can look forward to<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43700-microsofts-first-free-to-play-game-coming-in-spring.html\">Microsoft\u2019s first free-to-play game coming in Spring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/40229-5-downloadable-games-you-should-know-about.html\">5 downloadable games you should know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castle Crashers meets Battlefield in XBLA&#8217;s first free-to-play title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":45436,"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":[5172,1994,5289,21,2666,5290,847],"class_list":["post-45433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-f2p","tag-free-to-play","tag-happy-wars","tag-headline","tag-microsoft-game-studios","tag-toylogic","tag-xbla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45433","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=45433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45435,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45433\/revisions\/45435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}