{"id":45774,"date":"2012-10-11T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45774"},"modified":"2012-10-11T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:43:30","slug":"mechwarrior-online-beta-goes-live-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45774-mechwarrior-online-beta-goes-live-next-week","title":{"rendered":"MechWarrior Online beta goes live next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piranha Games has announced that the ongoing MechWarrior Online beta will transition from &#8220;STATUS: CLOSED&#8221; to &#8220;STATUS: OPEN&#8221; next week Tuesday, 16 October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to all of the fans over the course of our closed beta period,&#8221; said Piranha prez Russ Bullock. &#8220;The amazing fans and the high quality feedback given to our team have helped us craft MechWarrior Online into a true MechWarrior gameplay experience. We&#8217;re more than excited to open up the game and look forward to continuing to expand the InnerSphere with our loyal fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game puts you in the big metal boots of a BattleMech in the midst of nothing less than <em>total galactic war<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>BZZZZT, PSSSSHHHTTTT, BRRRRRRRNNNNNGGGGMMM, KZZZZZZZ, KLUNK KLUNK KLUNK, <em>PREPARE TO BE EX-TER-MIN-A-TED<\/em>. That&#8217;s me doing my best impression of a BattleMech in a galactic war.<\/p>\n<p>The team at Piranha is also prepping to launch a series of updates to the game over the next couple of months, including custom character skins, decals, and new maps.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you should probably <a href=\"http:\/\/mwomercs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">reserve your pilot name<\/a> so nobody else gets to call themselves xXxPr0_H1Tm4N_aSs4sS1N_NiNj4_69xXx.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/30633-top-5-pc-exclusives-of-2012.html\">Top 5 PC exclusives of 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suit up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":45784,"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":[31,2071,5172,1994,1953,469,7155],"class_list":["post-45774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-beta","tag-f2p","tag-free-to-play","tag-mechwarrior-online","tag-mmo","tag-piranha-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774","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=45774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45802,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45774\/revisions\/45802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}