{"id":84129,"date":"2015-12-03T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84129"},"modified":"2015-12-03T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:38:40","slug":"the-game-awards-2015-promises-to-surprise-westwood-studios-far-cry-primal-and-oculus-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/84129-the-game-awards-2015-promises-to-surprise-westwood-studios-far-cry-primal-and-oculus-rift","title":{"rendered":"The Game Awards 2015 promises to surprise: Westwood Studios, Far Cry: Primal and Oculus Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegameawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Game Awards 2015<\/a>, the supposed premiere awards ceremony for games, will be happening today at 9pm ET \/ 6pm PT \u2013 that&#8217;s 4am in the morning for us.<\/p>\n<p>And while the nominees and awards are only partially interesting, we&#8217;re looking forward to the many premieres and demonstrations promised.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58L2Ov5rnwg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This year we&#8217;re getting trailer premieres demonstrating gameplay from <em>Far Cry: Primal<\/em> and <em>Quantum Break<\/em>, and even DLC for <em>Rise of the Tomb Raider<\/em> called <em>Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch<\/em>, which we&#8217;re very excited for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ve seen some hints of what could be <em>Mass Effect: Andromeda<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Halo 5<\/em> and perhaps more in the trailer above.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re just snippets of course, and fly by too fast to confirm, but oh the sweet possibilities. There&#8217;s even a <em>Goat Simulator <\/em>announcement apparently.<\/p>\n<p>The Occulus Rift was also featured in The Game Awards 2015 trailers, and there&#8217;s definitely an announcement there so be on the look-out for that.<\/p>\n<p>The official stream will be available on YouTube Gaming rather than Twitch this time around. \u00a0You can <a href=\"http:\/\/thegameawards.com\/watch-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">watch it here<\/a> and even set a reminder for the awards show.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, there is one award we&#8217;re happy to see announced: the <a href=\"http:\/\/thegameawards.com\/westwood-studios-to-receive-industry-icon-award-at-the-game-awards-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Industry Icon Award which will be going to Westwood Studios<\/a>, a studio we dearly miss and absolutely adored.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More Recent News<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to The board game gift guide\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/84123-the-board-game-gift-guide.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The board game gift guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Save a butt load on GoG.com\u2019s Big Winter Sale: and our favourite picks\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/84119-save-a-butt-load-on-gog-coms-big-winter-sale-and-our-favourite-picks.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Save a butt load on GoG.com\u2019s Big Winter Sale: and our favourite picks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to The Witcher 3\u2019s second expansion, Blood and Wine, is teased\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/84115-the-witcher-3s-second-expansion-blood-and-wine-is-teased.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Witcher 3\u2019s second expansion, Blood and Wine, is teased<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And maybe even a little Mass Effect: Andromeda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":84133,"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":[16577,547,16030,12286,1969,6049,10068,12567,16575,6561,14678],"class_list":["post-84129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aba-yaga-the-temple-of-the-witch","tag-awards","tag-far-cry-primal","tag-game-awards","tag-news-2","tag-oculus-rift","tag-quantum-break","tag-rise-of-the-tomb-raider","tag-the-game-awards-2015","tag-westwood-studios","tag-youtube-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84129","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\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84135,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84129\/revisions\/84135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}