{"id":54816,"date":"2013-06-04T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54816"},"modified":"2013-06-04T18:29:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:29:47","slug":"plants-vs-zombies-2-free-to-play-release-date-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/54816-plants-vs-zombies-2-free-to-play-release-date-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Plants vs Zombies 2 free-to-play, release date revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PopCap has announced that the sequel to its uber-popular multi-platform tower-defense game, Plants vs. Zombies 2 will be shambling its way to gamers in 18 July 2013 and will be free-to-play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDesigned from the ground up as a live service, the ever-expanding universe of Plants vs. Zombies 2 continues the epic struggle of plants defending your brainz against zombies from your backyard through the vast reaches of time, both past and future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The sequel will feature new levels, plants, zombies and new content throughout the game\u2019s life cycle, which is basically eternal.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be ways to \u201cbreak the fourth wall\u201d in order to interact with zombies and plants directly through touch gestures.<\/p>\n<p>The game will launch exclusively on iPhone, iPad and iPhone touch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v7V_1U3w6wM\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"5 downloadable games you should know about\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/40229-5-downloadable-games-you-should-know-about.html\"><b>5 downloadable games you should know about<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42454-battleblock-theater-the-next-indie-hit.html\"><b>BattleBlock Theater \u2013 the next indie hit?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/41237-spelunky-review-xbox-360.html\">Spelunky review (Xbox 360)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Cap give gamers what they\u2019ve been asking for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":53608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[31,175,813,6351,6350],"class_list":["post-54816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-plants-vs-zombies-2","tag-popcap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54816","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=54816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54817,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54816\/revisions\/54817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}