{"id":76642,"date":"2015-06-03T01:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=76642"},"modified":"2015-06-03T01:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:32:25","slug":"fallout-4-to-be-announced-today-probably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/76642-fallout-4-to-be-announced-today-probably","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 4 to be announced later today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Bethesda as well as the rest of the ZeniMax Media group, like id Software, set to host their own press conference at E3, rumours of <em>Fallout 4<\/em> were bound to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Then, like clockwork, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/75300-not-the-first-fallout-4-rumour-but-certainly-the-most-credible.html\" target=\"_blank\">new evidence for <em>Fallout 4&#8217;s<\/em> development is leaked<\/a> and the gaming anticipation grows.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it&#8217;s grown so fervently that even the announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/75698-doom-is-teased-and-what-doom-could-have-been-leaked.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Doom <\/em>will be on show at Bethesda&#8217;s E3 press conference<\/a>, has been dwarfed significantly \u2013 and this is<em> Doom <\/em>of all things.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine the sort of reaction Bethesda themselves garnered when they went live with this tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PleaseStandBy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PleaseStandBy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ChhE4rZ9GM\">http:\/\/t.co\/ChhE4rZ9GM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/3NefHBcYU7\">pic.twitter.com\/3NefHBcYU7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bethesda Game Studios (@BethesdaStudios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BethesdaStudios\/status\/605744940006670337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, a countdown clock for what is presumably <em>Fallout 4<\/em>, given the clock&#8217;s aesthetic and style, is currently counting down for something set to happen later today \u2013 around 14 hours and 38 minutes from now to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>As you might imagine, gamers are losing their minds \u2013 35, 000+ Retweets and 29,700+ Favourites (at the time of writing) is no joke. But it will be pretty funny if this turns out to be a troll on Bethesda&#8217;s behalf<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve already gone live with <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/76096-our-fallout-4-wishlist.html\" target=\"_blank\">our wishlist for <em>Fallout 4<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the countdown clock yourselves by simply going <a href=\"http:\/\/fallout.bethsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">E3 is getting awfully exciting<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/76470-our-doom-wishlist-what-we-want-from-the-new-doom.html\">Our Doom wishlist: what we want from the new Doom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/76246-our-hopes-and-dreams-for-e3-2015.html\">Our hopes and dreams for E3 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/75962-what-sony-needs-to-do-to-impress-at-e3.html\">What Sony needs to do to impress at E3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/75596-what-microsoft-needs-to-do-to-impress-at-e3.html\">What Microsoft needs to do to impress at E3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now we wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":76644,"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":[165,8058,317,6316,1969,2700],"class_list":["post-76642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bethesda","tag-countdown","tag-e3","tag-fallout-4","tag-news-2","tag-zenimax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76642","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}