{"id":64739,"date":"2014-05-21T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T11:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64739"},"modified":"2014-05-21T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:44:31","slug":"wasteland-2-gets-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/64739-wasteland-2-gets-release-date","title":{"rendered":"Wasteland 2 gets release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post-apocalyptic role-playing game <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56243-wasteland-2-gets-a-publisher.html\">Wasteland 2<\/a> will be released in August 2014, InXile has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Wasteland 2 is a sequel to the original Wasteland, which was released in 1988. Its modern successor was successfully funded on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/inxile\/wasteland-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a>\u00a0in 2012 and is available to play as an Early Access title.<\/p>\n<p>Game designer <a href=\"http:\/\/wastelandrpg.tumblr.com\/post\/86331960901\/kickstarter-update-49-the-end-is-in-sight\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Fargo<\/a> said feedback from the beta trial has been beneficial, and he&#8217;s &#8220;proud of the way Wasteland 2 is shaping up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scope of the game is immense with a word count that is greater than The Lord of the Rings novels and a solid 50 hour+ game experience that has diversity from beginning to end. My goal has been to over deliver on our backer&#8217;s expectations for Wasteland 2,&#8221; said Fargo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we are not yet in full lock-down, it is important for us to stay flexible for iterations as we keep learning from the backer beta.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wasteland 2 is being developed for Linux, Mac, and Windows PC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R9hQWqtxXPU?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Any Wasteland backers or fans out there? Let us know your thoughts in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2014\/5\/20\/5735912\/wasteland-2-release-date-august\" target=\"_blank\">Polygon<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64627-skyblivion-the-ultimate-skyrim-mod-latest-update.html\">Skyblivion the ultimate Skyrim mod? Latest update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64471-men-game-harder-than-women-study.html\">Men game harder than women: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64529-steam-game-releases-in-2014-smash-records.html\">Steam game releases in 2014 smash records<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers have promised a script longer than The Lord of the Rings and a lengthy gameplay experience to match it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64743,"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":[31,2366,2397,2739],"class_list":["post-64739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-kickstarter","tag-wasteland","tag-wasteland-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64739","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=64739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}