{"id":56375,"date":"2013-07-17T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56375"},"modified":"2013-07-17T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:55:42","slug":"sony-dropping-online-support-for-3-games-rendering-2-unplayable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/56375-sony-dropping-online-support-for-3-games-rendering-2-unplayable","title":{"rendered":"Sony dropping online support for 3 games, rendering 2 unplayable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced that it will stop the online play service for three of its big games on 28 January, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The online multiplayer support for MAG, SOCOM: Confrontation, and SOCOM 4 will all come to a halt in January, announced on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Advisory: Online multiplayer services for MAG, SOCOM Confrontation, and SOCOM 4 will be ending on 01\/28\/14,&#8221; said Sony.<\/p>\n<p>Both MAG and SOCOM: Confrontation require online to play, which will then render the games unplayable. SOCOM 4 does have a single-player campaign.<\/p>\n<p>MAG and SOCOM 4 were developed by Zipper Interactive, who were shut down following the completion of the PS Vita game Unit 13.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56355-knights-of-the-old-republic-devs-working-on-new-ip.html\">Knights of the Old Republic devs working on new IP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/portable-2\/56341-angry-birds-star-wars-2-announced.html\">Angry Birds Star Wars 2 announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><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><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/56331-mvp-ea-sports-carbon-headset-sa-price-revealed.html\">MVP, EA Sports Carbon headset SA price revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony pulling the multiplayer plug on 3 games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49556,"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":[2],"tags":[31,2878,129,2879,10704,10703,71,2877],"class_list":["post-56375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-mag","tag-playstation-3","tag-socom","tag-socom-4","tag-socom-confrontation","tag-sony","tag-zipper-interactive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375","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=56375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56390,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56375\/revisions\/56390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}