{"id":6990,"date":"2010-08-04T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"starcraft-ii-exceeds-1million-day-1-sales-fastest-selling-rts-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/6990-starcraft-ii-exceeds-1million-day-1-sales-fastest-selling-rts-ever","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft II exceeds 1million day 1 sales, fastest selling RTS ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The StarCraft II launch has unsurprisingly been declared the biggest PC game launch of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p>It managed 1.5 million units in the first 48 hours, making it the fastest selling RTS ever made.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We launched StarCraft II in 11 different languages and on 5 different continents because we wanted to make sure as many players as possible were able to log on and play on day one,&#8221; said Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re pleased that so many people around the world have already picked up a copy of the game, and we look forward to welcoming even more players to Battle.net in the weeks and months ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7440-StarCraft-II-fastest-selling-RTS-ever?p=269520#post269520\" target=\"_self\">Discuss StarCraft II<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard&#039;s RTS sequel the fastest selling PC game of 2010<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","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=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}