{"id":70362,"date":"2014-11-07T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=70362"},"modified":"2014-11-07T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:04:47","slug":"battlefield-4-pc-version-goes-free-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/70362-battlefield-4-pc-version-goes-free-for-a-week","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 4 PC version goes free for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention PC gamers: Battlefield 4 is free to play for one week via the Origin store.<\/p>\n<p>If your PC can handle the DICE-made FPS action then head on over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.origin.com\/en-ie\/store\/free-games\/game-time\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>\u00a0and take advantage of the 168 hours of free game time.<\/p>\n<p>You will have to download the full game first before you can get into a tank, so take that into account when planning your playing schedule.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy your experience and decide to buy the full game, your progress will carry over &#8211; which is a nice touch.<\/p>\n<p>The free Battlefield 4 week coincides with the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/battlelog.battlefield.com\/bf4\/news\/view\/bf4-battlefest-season-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battlefest Season 2<\/a>, which gives gamers XP bonuses, additional battlepacks, and new dog tags.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt the upcoming launch of Battlefield Hardline &#8211; coming in February 2015 &#8211; is also a motivating factor behind EA&#8217;s decision to let gamers have some free time with 4.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IEUKApIydlw?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Will you give Battlefield 4 a go? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/70276-how-to-game-when-eskom-cuts-your-electricity.html\">How to game when Eskom cuts your electricity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/70268-hp-launches-omen-gaming-laptop.html\">HP launches Omen gaming laptop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/70264-gta-5-gets-first-person-mode-4k-pc-support.html\">GTA 5 gets first-person mode, 4K PC support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: It involves the Origin online store<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":57637,"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":[3],"tags":[5693,1994,21,1851],"class_list":["post-70362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-battlefield-4","tag-free-to-play","tag-headline","tag-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70362","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=70362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70364,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70362\/revisions\/70364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}