{"id":8048,"date":"2010-10-15T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"medal-of-honor-hits-sa-retail-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8048-medal-of-honor-hits-sa-retail-today","title":{"rendered":"Medal of Honor hits SA retail today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electronic Arts (EA) today announced that Medal of Honor is now available at retail stores in South Africa, 15 October 2010.<\/p>\n

Co-developed by EA’s Danger Close Studio in Los Angeles (single player component) and DICE in Stockholm (multiplayer component), Medal of Honor heralds the return of EA’s storied first person shooter franchise.<\/p>\n

Set in today’s real-world war zone and inspired by actual missions in Afghanistan, EA says that Medal of Honor was developed with unprecedented access to the U.S. Army as well as active and retired Tier 1 Operators.<\/p>\n

As Medal of Honor ships today, it launches with great momentum. Some of the marketing highlights listed by EA include:<\/p>\n

– Highest pre-orders in the 11-year history of the Medal of Honor franchise.
– Over 180K Facebook fans and 25K Twitter followers before the game even shipped.
– Exposed Medal of Honor multiplayer to over 1 million people across PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC platforms via two open beta testing periods to ensure the best performing multiplayer gameplay experience.
– PC Multiplayer Beta Peak Simultaneous Users (PSUs) outperformed EA’s previous record-holder Battlefield: Bad Company 2 by 41%.
– According to internal estimates, Medal of Honor is slated to be the biggest blockbuster week-one event in October 2010 outpacing movies such as ‘The Social Network’ (US$46M), ‘Secretariat’ (US$12.6) and ‘Life as We – Know It’ (US$14.6). Box office estimates according to Boxofficemojo.com.
– Launched Linkin Park song “Catalyst” to #1 with music video set in the Medal of Honor fiction; 6.5 million worldwide views to date making it the number 1 most viewed video on YouTube on August 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

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    For the first time in its 11-year history, Medal of Honor leaves the WWII theatre and enters the modern setting of war-torn Afghanistan. The game is told through the lens of a small band of fictional characters within the real-life Tier 1 Operators, a relatively unknown instrument of the U.S. Military.<\/p>\n

    Medal of Honor is available now in South Africa for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Medal of Honor is rated “16V” by the film and publication board in South Africa.<\/p>\n

    Discuss the Medal of Honor reboot<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    EA launched their Medal of Honor reboot in South Africa today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}