{"id":55964,"date":"2013-07-04T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T12:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55964"},"modified":"2013-07-04T14:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T12:23:02","slug":"mechwarrior-online-release-date-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/55964-mechwarrior-online-release-date-confirmed","title":{"rendered":"MechWarrior Online release date confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piranha Games has announced that the robo-smash-a-thon that is MechWarrior Online will release on 17 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The release will be a welcomed phase to the long-running beta, which will also introduce a number of new mechs into the game.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s beta has accumulated some pretty interesting stats, such as the annihilation of more than 46,941,487 mechs, 9.6 million hours of playtime, and 3 billion tons of metal destroyed on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>MechWarrior Online is set in the year 3050 during an interstellar war, where combatants need to utilise giant mechanical suits in order to fight for survival. Players can customise their mechs with new systems, armour and weapons.<\/p>\n<p>MechWarrior Online is also free-to-play. The MYGaming lance has already formed and you can join the mechanised mayhem crew over on the forum: <a title=\"Official MechWarrior Online Thread\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/27373-Official-MechWarrior-Online-Thread-(NDA-Lifted!)\" target=\"_blank\">Official MechWarrior Online Thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out one of the new mech additions to the game, the Dragon Slayer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBtbMFh4c8s\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Mech shooter Hawken readies closed beta for end of October\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45879-mech-shooter-hawken-readies-closed-beta-for-end-of-october.html\">Mech shooter Hawken readies closed beta for end of October<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MechWarrior Online beta goes live next week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45774-mechwarrior-online-beta-goes-live-next-week.html\">MechWarrior Online beta goes live next week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MechWarrior Tactics announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32484-mechwarrior-tactics-announced.html\">MechWarrior Tactics announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MechWarrior Online, free-to-play PC exclusive\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/15216-mechwarrior-online-free-to-play-pc-exclusive.html\">MechWarrior Online, free-to-play PC exclusive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic death-battles get an arrival time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":45784,"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":[31,10565,2386,7193,10563,10564,1953,7155],"class_list":["post-55964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-infinite","tag-infinite-game-publishing","tag-mech","tag-mechs","tag-mechwarrior","tag-mechwarrior-online","tag-piranha-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964","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=55964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55980,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55964\/revisions\/55980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}