{"id":52131,"date":"2013-03-22T12:44:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52131"},"modified":"2013-03-22T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T10:45:21","slug":"steam-early-access-revealed-by-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/52131-steam-early-access-revealed-by-valve","title":{"rendered":"Steam Early Access revealed by Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has revealed a new feature on Steam &#8211; Early Access.<\/p>\n<p>Steam Early Access allows users to buy a game while it\u2019s still in development in order to play it early \u2013 it\u2019s a bit of a gamble.<\/p>\n<p>Users will then be able to try out the game code and give developers feedback and comments on their in-progress projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe like to support and encourage developers who want to ship early, involve customers, and build lasting relationships that help everyone make better games,\u201d explains Valve.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this isn\u2019t the same as pre-purchasing, and Valve explains that you\u2019re purchasing the game in its current in-development form.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the games available for <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/genre\/Early%20Access\/\" target=\"_blank\">Early Access<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/earlyaccessfaq\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Valve news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48106-steam-big-picture-mode-launched.html\">Steam Big Picture Mode launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/49027-valve-shows-off-pc-hardware-project-at-ces.html\">Valve shows off PC hardware project at CES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48540-valve-introduces-game-guides-for-steam.html\">Valve introduces Game Guides for Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48650-steam-for-linux-beta-open-to-all.html\">Steam for Linux beta open to all<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your hands on tomorrow\u2019s games today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":52133,"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":[3],"tags":[31,1496,85,9376,697,9375],"class_list":["post-52131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-early-access","tag-steam","tag-steam-early-access","tag-valve","tag-valve-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52131","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=52131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}