{"id":50054,"date":"2013-02-05T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=50054"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T13:54:57","slug":"xbox-live-pods-to-hit-sa-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/50054-xbox-live-pods-to-hit-sa-retail","title":{"rendered":"Xbox LIVE pods to hit SA retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming has learnt that Xbox South Africa is planning to roll-out &#8220;Xbox LIVE pods&#8221; at retail stores around South Africa, with BT Games currently pegged as an initial partner. This is an official Microsoft initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Xbox LIVE pods will be combination of Xbox 360 product display and education centre, and consumer service station manned by fully-trained staff.<\/p>\n<p>With the aide of staff, customers will be able to learn what the LIVE service is all about, and receive help setting up their Xbox LIVE account.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can also update their Xbox 360 software at the pod, whether they purchased it in-store or bring one in. Game patch downloading will also be offered.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50153-sa-pro-gaming-star-signed-to-coolermaster-sponsorship.html\">SA pro gaming star signed to CoolerMaster sponsorship<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50039-free-gears-1-with-judgment-pre-order-in-sa.html\">Free Gears 1 with Judgment pre-order in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/50015-cybersmart-to-tackle-unfriendly-adsl-for-gamers.html\">Cybersmart plans game servers, improved ADSL for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49969-polokwane-croc-debacle-inspires-game-parody.html\">Polokwane croc debacle inspires game parody<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox 360 SA to offer product education centre and consumer service station at SA retail stores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":50221,"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":[91,3627,5793,5794,243,89,8642,7172],"class_list":["post-50054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-sa","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sa-news","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-live","tag-xbox-live-pod","tag-xbox-live-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50054","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50220,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50054\/revisions\/50220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}