{"id":86057,"date":"2016-02-09T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86057"},"modified":"2016-02-09T12:42:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T10:42:28","slug":"battalion-1944-reaches-kickstarter-goal-in-just-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86057-battalion-1944-reaches-kickstarter-goal-in-just-3-days","title":{"rendered":"Battalion 1944 reaches Kickstarter goal in just 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British developer Bulkhead Interactive&#8217;s World War II shooter <em>Battalion 1944<\/em> made quite the splash when it was showcased on crowd-funding platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/bulkheadinteractive\/battalion-1944-pc-xb1-ps4\/description\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The team was asking fans to help fund their project, requiring a\u00a0\u00a3100,000 to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the fans have spoken, and Bulkhead Interactive achieved their admittedly large development budget within three days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We did it. Battalion 1944 is now confirmed to be fully in development for \u202aSteam\u202c\u202c, \u202aXbox One\u202c\u202c and\u202a \u200ePlayStation 4\u202c\u202c, bringing World War 2 into the next generation of video games! Thank you!<\/em>&#8220;, said the developer in a Kickstarter update.<\/p>\n<p>With the base target done, the campaign is now digging into stretch goals. The developers said they have \u201c<em>something awesome in the works which a lot of you have been asking for,<\/em>\u201d but won&#8217;t reveal what it is until it&#8217;s fully planned out.<\/p>\n<p>A horde mode? A single-player campaign? Whatever it turns out to be, they said that it will \u201c<em>push the authentic WW2 experience to even greater heights.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Battalion 1944<\/em> has also made great leaps on Steam Greenlight, moving \u201covernight\u201d from number 20 to number six on the list.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of writing, the funding is at\u00a0\u00a3188,689 with 23 days to go, which is almost double the amount the initially set out the achieve.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>In other news<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/85683-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-a-comparison-between-console-pc-and-high-and-low-settings.html\">Rise of the Tomb Raider: a comparison between console, PC and High and Low settings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/85679-playstation-plus-for-february-includes-persona-4-arena-ultimax-and-hell-divers.html\">PlayStation Plus for February includes Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Hell Divers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/85673-xbox-lives-games-with-gold-for-february-styx-master-of-shadows-gears-of-war-2-and-more.html\">Xbox Live\u2019s Games with Gold for February \u2013 Styx: Master of Shadows, Gears of War 2 and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/85609-games-of-february-too-much-to-choose-from.html\">Games of February \u2013 too much to choose from<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Load up your M1 Garand, war is coming\u2026 again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":86059,"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":[2],"tags":[17179,17177,17185,1966,2664,2366,1157,17181,17183],"class_list":["post-86057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-battalion","tag-battalion-1944","tag-bulkhead-interactive","tag-games","tag-gaming","tag-kickstarter","tag-video-games","tag-ww2","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86057","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86061,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86057\/revisions\/86061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}