{"id":62360,"date":"2014-03-05T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62360"},"modified":"2014-03-05T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:03:34","slug":"hilarious-battleblock-theater-coming-to-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62360-hilarious-battleblock-theater-coming-to-pc","title":{"rendered":"Hilarious BattleBlock Theater coming to PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Behemoth&#8217;s Hatty, and Hatty\u2019s nameless friends, are back with\u00a0BattleBlock Theater confirmed\u00a0for a PC release on Steam later this year. While the exact date remains a mystery at this stage, a closed beta will be held from 24 to 31 March with prospective players encouraged to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebehemoth.com\/beta\/\" target=\"_blank\">sign up<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BattleBlock Theater Steam (version) is going to manifest moments in your mind you never thought would be possible. Don\u2019t believe us? Try the game yourself,&#8221; the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thebehemoth.com\/2014\/03\/04\/battleblock-theater-coming-soon-to-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Behemoth&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0dares.<\/p>\n<p>According to the makers, &#8220;new features&#8221; for the game include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weapon switching! Players can now switch between a primary and secondary weapon in game!<\/li>\n<li>New Cat Guard enemies throughout Story Mode.<\/li>\n<li>Steam Workshop integration for sharing user created levels.<\/li>\n<li>Steam Inventory integration for trading! This allows users to trade and sell weapons, prisoners, gems and yarn via Steam.<\/li>\n<li>X input, Direct Input, and Keyboard\/Mouse support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the game trailer below, which also happens to be the funniest video on the internet today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fIUE3aP1TFw?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-03-05-battleblock-theater-confirmed-for-pc-in-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62359-goat-simulator-is-no-april-fools-joke.html\">Goat Simulator is no April Fools\u2019 joke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62355-uncharted-creative-director-packs-her-bags.html\">Uncharted creative director packs her bags<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62353-thief-developer-eidos-montreal-hit-with-layoffs.html\">Thief developer Eidos Montreal hit with layoffs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A platform game so awesome, human eyes can&#8217;t handle it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62362,"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":[5285,12074,21,1969,85,5286],"class_list":["post-62360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-battleblock-theater","tag-closed-beta","tag-headline","tag-news-2","tag-steam","tag-the-behemoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62363,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62360\/revisions\/62363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}