{"id":5589,"date":"2010-03-15T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"btgames-god-of-war-iii-midnight-launch-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/5589-btgames-god-of-war-iii-midnight-launch-this-week","title":{"rendered":"BTGames God of War III midnight launch this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local game retailer BTGames has announced that it will be holding a midnight launch for the highly anticipated God of War III which will be hitting store shelves this week.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow gamers to purchase the game the minute it becomes available, literally.<\/p>\n<p>They will also be holding a nationwide Cosplay contest, and gamers are encouraged to dress up as the game&rsquo;s hero, Kratos. Prizes will be awarded to the best dressed Kratos impersonators.<\/p>\n<p>The midnight launch will be happening at BTGames stores across the country on March 16, and doors will open at 10pm and close at 1am.<\/p>\n<p>The game officially hits retail shelves on March 17, so if you want to be one of the first people playing it, make sure to get yourself to a BTGames store tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?5049-GOW3-midnight-launch-at-BTGames-tomorrow-night&amp;p=190436#post190436\" target=\"_self\">Discuss God of War III midnight launch <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local retailer will be selling GOW3 seconds into the release date<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"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":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}