{"id":5681,"date":"2010-03-30T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"skate-3-demo-out-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5681-skate-3-demo-out-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Skate 3 demo out in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA has announced that a demo for the third iteration of its popular skateboarding series, Skate, will be releases on Xbox Live and PSN on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Before Skate, the Tony Hawk franchise dominated the skateboarding game sub-genre, however, as it became progressively more farfetched over the years, gamers&rsquo; interest began to wander. Then EA released Skate, which applied a fresh approach to video game skateboarding with a greater emphasis on realism.<\/p>\n<p>Both Skate and Skate 2 were received fairly well, both commercially and critically. It should be interesting to see if EA can hold gamers&rsquo; attentions a third time around.<\/p>\n<p>The demo will provide a platform for gamers to try before they buy, and with so many local uncapped ADSL services cropping up recently, downloading them has never been easier for local gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA once again allows players to try before they buy<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681","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=5681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}