{"id":5095,"date":"2009-12-30T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gears-of-war-available-on-xbox-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5095-gears-of-war-available-on-xbox-live","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War available on Xbox Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Developers Epic Games have announced that legendary Xbox 360 exclusive Shooter Gears of War is now available for download through the console&rsquo;s Xbox Live Marketplace.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The game is currently available for download at a cost of $19.99 (roughly R150). No word has yet been given regarding whether it will remain available for South African users.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>South Africa is yet to receive official Xbox Live support; instead local users are forced to register accounts in either the UK or the USA. Microsoft&rsquo;s content restriction policy for outlying territories, which complies with German law, also means that a lot of the content that becomes available through Xbox Live is not accessible to South African gamers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite this South African&rsquo;s are still able to download most of what becomes available on XBL.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This package does not however feature any of the additional content found in the two disk Platinum Hits edition.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox 360 owners can now download classic title through the Xbox Live Marketplace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}