{"id":56341,"date":"2013-07-16T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56341"},"modified":"2013-07-16T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:29:53","slug":"angry-birds-star-wars-2-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/56341-angry-birds-star-wars-2-announced","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds Star Wars 2 announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rovio Entertainment has announced that Angry Birds Star Wars will be getting a sequel, and revealed that the game would feature toys like that of Skylanders and Disney Infinity.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be based on the Star Wars prequels (Episodes 1-3) and will feature new characters to the mobile franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The game integrates Hasbro\u2019s Telepods technology to allow the use of toys to be implemented in the game. Players can place these figures on their phone or tablet camera to scan them into the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFling your favourite characters, including a young pod-racing Anakin, Mace Windu, General Grievous, Darth Maul, and yes\u2026 even Jar Jar Binks\u201d, said Rovio.<\/p>\n<p>Angry Birds Star Wars 2 will also allow players to choose between playing as the birds or piggies, either choosing to side with the Angry Bird rebels or &#8220;the Pork Side&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Angry Birds Star Wars 2 will launch on 19 September 2013. There are no pricing or platform details announced.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6DKNKI27GdA\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Angry Birds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.angrybirds.com\/starwars2\" target=\"_blank\">Angry Birds<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56333-riot-games-beats-google-in-employee-satisfaction-survey.html\">Riot Games beats Google in employee satisfaction survey<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56322-new-gta-5-details-emerge.html\">New GTA 5 details emerge<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56303-steam-reveals-best-selling-games-of-the-week.html\">Steam reveals best-selling games of the week<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More intergalactic piggy destruction on the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":56342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[31,947,355,7060,10689,531,8299,533,1576,357,1494],"class_list":["post-56341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-android","tag-angry-birds","tag-angry-birds-star-wars","tag-angry-birds-star-wars-2","tag-ios","tag-mobile","tag-portable-1","tag-rovio","tag-rovio-entertainment","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56341","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=56341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56345,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56341\/revisions\/56345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}