{"id":48479,"date":"2012-12-14T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=48479"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T08:27:13","slug":"online-gaming-specials-this-weekend-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/48479-online-gaming-specials-this-weekend-8","title":{"rendered":"Online gaming specials this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday and for a lot of people out there, it&#8217;s also the last working day of the year, making this Friday, Best Friday Ever. Or Longest Friday Ever, or maybe Longest Friday Until 5 PM Ever. You know what I mean. It&#8217;s Friday!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also Christmas bonus time, and you know if you don&#8217;t spend it all on yourself today, you&#8217;re probably going to be guilted into paying that overdue credit card bill, and <em>nobody wants that to happen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So on Steam, you can get <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/108800\/?snr=1_4_4__40\" target=\"_blank\">Crysis 2 Maximum Edition<\/a> for just $9.99 (R90 or so), saving 75% off the regular price tag. Yes? Go on. No? What about a free weekend of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/35450?snr=1_4_4__40_1\" target=\"_blank\">Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad<\/a>? If you like it enough to want to keep on playing, it&#8217;s also 75% off ($.4.99 or R45) until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Other Steam specials include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sub\/15609\/?snr=1_4_4__106\" target=\"_blank\">Crysis Collection<\/a> &#8211; $19.99 (75% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/219740\/?snr=1_4_4__106\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Starve<\/a> &#8211; $11.99 (20% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sub\/16835\/?snr=1_4_4__106\" target=\"_blank\">Tripwire Interactive Bundle<\/a> &#8211; $14.99 (75% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/17300\/?snr=1_4_4__106\" target=\"_blank\">Crysis<\/a> &#8211; $4.99 (75% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sub\/15319\/?snr=1_4_4__106\" target=\"_blank\">Red Orchestra Franchise Pack<\/a> &#8211; $8.74 (75% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sub\/987\/?snr=1_4_4__106\" target=\"_blank\">Crysis Maximum Edition<\/a> &#8211; $9.99 (75% off)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over on GOG, the 2012 DRM-Free Holiday Sale is in go-mode, saving you loads of munnies on loads of games new and old, like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/the_witcher_2\" target=\"_blank\">Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings<\/a> &#8211; $7.49 (75% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/faster_than_light\" target=\"_blank\">FTL: Faster Than Light<\/a> &#8211; $4.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/arma_2_combined_operations\" target=\"_blank\">ARMA 2: Combined Operations<\/a> &#8211; $14.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/master_of_magic\" target=\"_blank\">Master of Magic<\/a> &#8211; $2.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/freespace_2\" target=\"_blank\">Freespace 2<\/a> &#8211; $4.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/syndicate\" target=\"_blank\">Syndicate<\/a> &#8211; $2.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/divine_divinity\" target=\"_blank\">Divine Divinity<\/a> &#8211; $2.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/might_and_magic_6_limited_edition\" target=\"_blank\">Might &amp; Magic 6-Pack<\/a> &#8211; $4.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/theme_hospital\" target=\"_blank\">Theme Hospital<\/a> &#8211; $2.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/master_of_orion_1_2\" target=\"_blank\">Master of Orion 1 + 2<\/a> &#8211; $2.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/fallout\" target=\"_blank\">Fallout<\/a> &#8211; $4.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/gamecard\/carmageddon_max_pack\" target=\"_blank\">Carmageddon<\/a> &#8211; $4.99 (50% off)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Christmas gaming specials\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/48466-christmas-gaming-specials.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Christmas gaming specials<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/48347-christmas-hardware-wishlist-graphics-cards.html\">Christmas hardware wishlist \u2013 Graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/48143-christmas-hardware-wishlist-cases.html\">Christmas hardware wishlist \u2013 Cases<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/47845-christmas-hardware-wishlist-motherboards.html\">Christmas hardware wishlist \u2013 Motherboards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap stuff and free stuff from around the web<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":48259,"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":[2084,21,7415,85],"class_list":["post-48479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-gog","tag-headline","tag-online-gaming-specials","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48479","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=48479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48488,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48479\/revisions\/48488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}