{"id":47935,"date":"2012-11-28T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T10:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47935"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T10:52:22","slug":"dishonored-publisher-drops-sequel-hints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/47935-dishonored-publisher-drops-sequel-hints","title":{"rendered":"Dishonored publisher drops sequel hints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda and Arkane Studios&#8217; stealth-&#8217;em-up Dishonored has been a hit with both critics <em>and<\/em> gamers, and big sales for the game have apparently made its a pretty serious prospect for a sequel. Exactly nobody is surprised, I&#8217;m sure.<em> Just like the last time I tried to infiltrate the Golden Cat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can tell you that Dishonored is far exceeding our sales expectations, which is especially cool considering it&#8217;s new IP facing a host of well-established franchises this quarter,&#8221; a Bethesda rep told Destructoid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, we\u2019re very pleased and appreciate all the fans that have supported Dishonored and Arkane. We clearly have a new franchise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Arkane is prepping <a title=\"Dishonored add-on packs announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46456-dishonored-add-on-packs-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\">at least three DLC add-ons for Dishonored<\/a>, with the first &#8211; a series of challenge maps packaged as Dunwall City Trials &#8211; due to launch on 11 December. Two campaign expansions have been confirmed for release next year, but not much additional info has been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Dishonored has also been nominated in six categories for the annual <a title=\"Video Game Awards nominees announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47511-video-game-awards-nominees-announced.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spike TV Video Game Awards<\/a>, including Game of the Year.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/bethesda-dishonored-sales-exceeding-expectations--239407.phtml#yHqVqRZfhV4XpXRG.99\" target=\"_blank\">Destructoid<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46456-dishonored-add-on-packs-announced.html\">Dishonored add-on packs announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/46357-dishonored-chaos-system-explained.html\">Dishonored Chaos system explained<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45697-dishonored-writer-slags-off-creepy-as-hell-gordon-freeman.html\">Dishonored writer slags off \u201ccreepy as hell\u201d Gordon Freeman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45645-dishonored-review-round-up.html\">Dishonored review round-up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We clearly have a new franchise&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":46457,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3560,165,3558],"class_list":["post-47935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-arkane-studios","tag-bethesda","tag-dishonored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47935","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=47935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}