{"id":54946,"date":"2013-06-07T12:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54946"},"modified":"2013-06-07T12:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T10:50:23","slug":"play-civilization-5-free-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/54946-play-civilization-5-free-this-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Play Civilization 5 free this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular strategy game Civilization V is free for all Steam users this weekend, allowing players to experience the turn-based game without paying a cent.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the temporary free-to-play offering is to celebrate the upcoming expansion Brave New World expansion, which is now available for pre-order.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Civilization 5\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/8930\/\" target=\"_blank\">free weekend deal<\/a> is now live, and will run until Sunday, 22:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p>In Civilization V, the player leads a civilization from pre-historic times into the future on a procedurally-generated map, achieving one of a number of different victory conditions through research, diplomacy, expansion, economic development, government, and military conquest.<\/p>\n<p>The game is based on an entirely new game engine with hexagonal tiles instead of the square tiles of earlier games in the series.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/54928-gaming-specials-this-weekend-30.html\"><b>Gaming specials this weekend<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51626-simcity-like-civitas-hits-kickstarter.html\"><b>SimCity-like Civitas hits Kickstarter<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/48455-best-strategy-games-of-2012.html\">Best strategy games of 2012<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get in some civilised gaming action for free this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":54947,"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":[827,10252,10253,2418,1892,4197,85],"class_list":["post-54946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-2k-games","tag-civilization","tag-civilization-5","tag-civilization-v","tag-firaxis","tag-free","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54946","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=54946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54953,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54946\/revisions\/54953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}