{"id":49551,"date":"2013-01-23T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T08:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49551"},"modified":"2013-01-23T10:24:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T08:24:43","slug":"webafricas-e-sport-focus-for-sa-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49551-webafricas-e-sport-focus-for-sa-gaming","title":{"rendered":"WebAfrica&#8217;s e-sport focus for SA gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WebAfrica&#8217;s 2013 goals include a revised focus on the competitive gaming scene in South Africa and continuing to deliver services to SA gamers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with WAGE Games Master Robert Tait, MyGaming asked what WebAfrica may have in the works for hungry local gamers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re planning on becoming more involved in the local competitive scene and would like to contribute to local leagues, tournaments and competitions in an effort to encourage e-sports and competitive gaming,\u201d said Tait.<\/p>\n<p>Tait emphasised that WebAfrica\u2019s focus will lie on clans and competitive-based gaming communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do expect to be able to provide game servers for newly released game titles shortly; however, we\u2019re not able to say at this stage what we may be able to bring to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will most certainly let the community know as we move further into the first quarter,\u201d added Tait.<\/p>\n<p>Tait also said that the goal at WebAfrica is to maintain the services WebAfrica currently offers, and keep delivering to SA gamers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue our quest to provide gamers with what they want, locally.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49090-vodacom-lte-tested-for-gaming.html\">Vodacom LTE tested for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49546-sa-halo-4-finals-public-attendance-details.html\">SA Halo 4 finals public attendance details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/49544-razer-orbweaver-keypad-sa-pricing-inside.html\">Razer Orbweaver keypad: SA pricing inside<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49523-do-gaming-league-breaks-records.html\">Do Gaming League breaks records<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49370-sa-battlefield-3-nations-cup-opponents-revealed.html\">SA Battlefield 3 Nation\u2019s Cup opponents revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WebAfrica talks about the push on competitive gaming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":45456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[289,2664,21,2052,5567,2752,5794,1259,295,3987,8495],"class_list":["post-49551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-competitive-gaming","tag-gaming","tag-headline","tag-sa-gaming","tag-sa-gaming-community","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-news","tag-wage","tag-web-africa","tag-webafrica","tag-webafrica-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49551","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49682,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49551\/revisions\/49682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}